I’ve tried a few, good list for my next visit.
Abort Retry Fail is a publication that focuses on computing history.
I've enjoyed their posts. They are information-dense, condensed, and to the point. And they often cover aspects of computer history that I know little about.
NI is now part of Emerson.
I think about this joke often. It's so great. Decided to save the link to it.
Well made 3D renders of what the city of Tenochtitlán would have looked like.
I recommend and use Notifier service to convert email subscriptions to RSS, so I can read things in my RSS reader (NetNewsWire) the way news are intended to be read. Specifically, a fire columns from Mexican newspaper El Norte / Reforma / Mural.
They are adding this new feature that allows summarizing an RSS feed using ChatGPT. This is a really smart application for AI. I haven’t tried it but I can see how it can be very useful to many.
The Internet is still a wonderful place.
Allows you to run all Classic Mac OS releases in the Macintosh of your choosing emulated withing the browser. This is really slick and really well done.
Super slick explanation and interactive tutorial of the SVG file format.
Bookmarking for later. Need to build this with my kids.
Today’s Atari company is not the same Atari from the 70s. They just own the brand which has passed hands over and over and over. But I must say it’s pretty cool that they are making a game cartridge for the 2600.
I love this list. It’s not “the best restaurants” but rather the “most legendary”. Places that are an institution. I’ve been to a bunch of them.
#5 Pizzeria Da Michele in Napoli (1996) was unforgettable.
#26 Salt Lick made the list. It is in my opinion a mediocre BBQ but a great tourist destination. I used to think it was good – either their quality declined or I learned better.
#84 El Rey del Cabrito from my hometown is super famous. I don’t like cabrito and their’s is not even the best cabrito. But the places (there’s several) are great destinations with excellent service and totally worth a visit.
The article is a nightmare though. The list of restaurants themselves are listed in un-searchable images. What a shame. Maybe I’ll do something about it.
Every Pixar film tackles a different technical problem.
- "Toy Story" (1995): realistic lighting surfaces like plastic and metal toys
- "Finding Nemo" (2003): underwater scenes
- "The Incredibles" (2004): realistic human characters and fabric simulation.
- "Cars" (2006): large-scale environments.
- "Wall-E" (2008): realistic dust
- "Brave" (2012): hair and fur simulation
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It’s super interesting that for this movie the challenge was to animate the fire characters realistically (as fire) but also recognizable (as characters). Using AI is a very neat approach.
This is really funny. Disney made a Hillary Clinton animatronic for the Hall of Presidents, then made it look like Donald Trump after his election. Photos are great too.
Too bad the did eventually replace it.
The Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization has completed a 5.7 terapixel mosaic of the surface of Mars rendered at 5.0 m/px. Each pixel in the mosaic is about the size of a typical parking space, providing unprecedented resolution of the martian surface at the global scale.
This is so cool.
Very fun short film with high production values, all shot form a phone camera.
Eminently interesting and enjoyable blog (in Spanish) about a waitress in a Sanborns.
One of the best uses of AI/ML I’ve seen. Actually I’m not sure it’s uses those technologies.
Thought provoking short story by Ted Chiang. Ted Chiang’s writing is phenomenal.
Clickbait is one of the scourges of the internet. Like with spam filters, we have to invent our way out of a misuse of technology. Good use for AI, and a great feature for Artifact (I still haven’t even tried it).