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, 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

2048

You may enjoy this game 2048.

Sunday, 26 January 2014

Duolingo

 Duolingo is a website that gamifies learning new languages. So far they have only a few languages but the interactive feedback makes it fun.

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

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."