Thursday, 14 October 2021
Newton's Fractal visualized
3blue1brown explains Netwon's approximation in a wonderfully approachable way.
Sunday, 2 May 2021
AI Dungeon
AI Dungeon is a text-based dungeon explorer that uses GPT-3 to automatically generate dynamic adventures.
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Dynamic Lighting for 2D Pictures
Adding lighting depending on the object in the image, quite impressive!
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Realistic Fake Word Generator
thisworddoesnotexist.com creates realistic-looking fake word with a corresponding definition. Playing around with it, it subjectively seems quite good.
Sunday, 22 March 2020
Stock Jump
Riding the slopes of the recession, this game allows a virtual skier to go down slopes in the shape of stock returns.
Sunday, 2 February 2020
Faking Google Traffic
An artist drags his cart around town to create fake Google Maps traffic for art: article.
Saturday, 25 May 2019
Saturday, 19 May 2018
Approximating Pi Using Matches
This video illustrates a beautifully simple method to approximate Pi using Monte Carlo approximations and throwing sticks on lines.
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
"A two-year-old's solution to the trolley problem"
I enjoyed this video about an alternative solution to the classic trolley problem.
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
Accidental Twitter Bot
This Twitter bot scans Twitter and posts tweets that happen to match 5/7/5 syllable structure. It is mildly amusing.
Saturday, 14 November 2015
Amazon Bots Fighting Over Price
I enjoyed this story about Amazon seller bots trying to outdo themselves leading to some funny results, namely a 20$ book priced at 2.4 million. Story found here.
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Sunday, 26 January 2014
Saturday, 16 November 2013
xbcd Comics
xbcd is a popular online comic strip that accurately describes itself as "a webcomic of romance,
sarcasm, math, and language". Its solid mix of thoughtful insights and geeky humor had me laughing out loud several times.
Monday, 11 November 2013
Saturday, 9 November 2013
Thursday, 7 November 2013
Why the growth of bee populations follows the Fibonacci series.
The Futility Closet blog has an interesting entry about why the growth of bee populations follows the Fibonacci series.
[Illustration from their story.]
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Random Poetry Maker Gains Massive Twitter Following
A random poetry generator, mix and matching sentences from eBooks has an incredible 220 thousand followers. The video discuss the implications of the popular "SPAM machine" in the context of art.
Friday, 4 October 2013
Thursday, 29 August 2013
New element!
"An international team of researchers, led by physicists from Lund
University, have confirmed the existence of what is considered a new element with atomic number 115."
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