Inefficient exploration, dark forests & more

BD #2 - Feb '23

Random picks 🎲

• The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI: Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

  https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest by Maggie Appleton

  

• 1 dataset 100 visualizations: How the story or shapes can differ from various visualizations of the same dataset, by ferdio who also did a great article on flags

  https://100.datavizproject.com/

  

• Optimizing the view count: Strategic streaming under the wealthy’s bridge

  Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 @RealSexyCyborg

  J/K What's going on is they are gaming the location feature. Streaming platforms allow users to search locally- wealthier neighborhoods mean much higher donations because of the perceived availability of the streamer. Also we just like groups and company- and they co-lab😁

  

  

  

  

Tool shed ⚒️

• Dimensions: sketches with dimensions, definitions and FAQs for multiple elements of our universe. From door-handles to aliens

  https://www.dimensions.com/

  

• Gen-1: the DALL-E of video: how to turn low budget video into masterpieces or style a video consistently, by runway

  Karen X. Cheng @karenxcheng

  Low budget filmmaking using AI Here are some of my early experiments using @runwayml GEN-1

• Poline: a enigmatic color palette generator with great Javascript integration, again by David Aerne

  https://meodai.github.io/poline/

  

Memory lane 📽️

• Visualizing powers of ten (1977) and its recreation using dall-e

• They rule (2001) and Robert Kosara’s analysis. Who is doing a free course on observablehq about data visualization which might interest some of you.

Ego corner 🪞

• Embracing exploration in an efficiency-driven world: our first video-essay about the power of exploration.

Word pool 🤽

• ELIZA effect: is the tendency to unconsciously assume computer behaviors are analogous to human behaviors; that is, anthropomorphisation of the machine. Go watch Her, Spike Jonze, 2013. [w]

• Technology readiness level (TRLs): A method for estimating the maturity of technologies from 1 and 9. If someone asks for your project’s TRL just say 6. [w]

Find the canvas of all discoveries in our kinopio. Thank you all for reading and Jose, Daniele & Nayelli for the contributions!