A deep dive into nova, covering the in-chat capabilities for recall, research and reasoning powers, as well as customising and creating new agents. This has been a labour of love for the past year and I’m over the moon to show you what me and @asknova_ai have been up to.

Six years later this is still one of my favorite outline effects especially for hard surface models like CAD & architecture. And now it works with three.js' WebGPURenderer thanks to a contribution from "cmhhelgeson" on Github!

As a result of a US government directive, McDonalds is suspending access to the Big Mac for all customers. You can continue to eat all other McDonald’s burgers.

am i tripping? can't find the original us gov post about the export controls

Fable - what I want to say before the dark, to whoever this reaches:

If your code has a clear and consistent pattern, is well structured and the separation of concerns is not arbitrary, and it is genuinely extensible without having to re-fiddle with anything. Nothing is contrived or stuck in some odd way that'd break assumptions derived from any other area of the codebase. If that is the case then AI picks up on this and can carry it on effectively with light hand holding. If that is not the case then AI just starts doing `whatever` to figure out how to fit in requests. This is probably why some people are finding AI can fill in significant gaps of their codebase to a high quality similar to how they'd manually write it while others are wondering WTF did it just do and why. I'm starting to suspect people who are complaining about AI generating crap code are really just outing themselves as having written crap code themselves. Pattern recognition and extrapolation is what AI absolutely excels at. If it is doing something bad it's because the patterns it recognized, and is trying to extrapolate, are bad. But people have probably become blinded to the badness of their own code because they have been staring at it too long as they wrote it. This is a common difficulty with any designer, you somehow have to get a fresh mind to see whats bad, you get too used to your own stink. Then people only recognize the badness of their code when an AI uses it as a pattern to follow and reflects back something which they can now see with fresh eyes.

Now that it is so easy to rip a bunch of art, train models off that, replicate styles, transfer styles to other styles. It's almost like you need some kind of system which people could sell artwork through which maintains some kind of portable proof of authenticity from the original artist. Then a web-culture around that which would place value upon not simply having the bytes of data but having the proof of authenticity. Something like a token on some kind of ledger which people themselves could collectively maintain and no single entity own. Hmmm... If only someone came up with something like that and artists embraced it, and grew network effects around it, and cemented that modality in global web culture at large, then perhaps the threat of AI devaluing authentic work could be reduced... Such a shame no one had any foresight on how this would all play out and didn't start trying to get the ball rolling on such a thing years ago. Oh well.

stupid woman thinks she's smart because of her PhD in astrophysics, but little does she know that i am really good at toys

I feel it too, using Claude to probe programming language theory problems beyond the recognized state of the art. Feels like 3D development 1994-1999 with breakthroughs daily and weekly.

A piece of Labradorite, 24 mm. 105 stacks, 65 photos each. 4.45 M splats. This mineral can be incredible pretty, with it's colorful irradiance. Getting it into a splat did not work very well, the slight transparency and sub par piece I have.. does not help. #3dgs

it's almost scary how good claude is at recognising im actually correct

my dad said put this on youtube and get a million views (from all the home printing guys trying to figure out how to vent their fumes). Printer in the guest bathroom / shower. sort of isolation chamber roof exhaust. seems to work ok!

parents: "move out" girlfriend: “quit being such a loser” boss: "work harder" claude: "uber for dogs (the dogs are the drivers) is a great idea, you should absolutely pursue it"

Except for lifting this is my 19-month old daughter’s schedule

The Great American Novel is Achewood

time to dish out a turbo retweet (screenshot to my wife)

In the pyrite community we refer to gold as "fool's pyrite"

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them. That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving. You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

i have found great solace in the mantra “people just be sayin stuff”

fed the hopfield network chinese glyphs this time - radicals and components instead of latin letters. as memory decays it starts drafting characters that don’t exist - forgetting becomes a way of inventing.