4,000 tons of spare spuds in Germany. Photo: Hannibal Hanschke/EPA
“You are not creative and then create something, you become creative by working on something, creativity is a byproduct of work.”
— JÜRGEN GEUTER
This time we’re colliding what computers can’t do, Crocs, potatoes, labyrinths and making it easy.
Please skip around, read what you want to. Find something interesting in your own internet travels? Send me a link
—JH
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By Justin Hall.
10 curious links that would have killed the cat
🤖 It’s still what computers can’t do. From the author, Dr. Sam Anthony: “LLMs can't find the narrative perspective that unlocks a story … [because they’re] too impoverished to think about the text they are producing as a reader. They are immensely capable of organizing large masses of text, but the organization they chose will be the organization that has been most commonly chosen before. It will be inherently perspectiveless, because they have no perspective to add.” Super fascinating read that also notes AI’s engineering acuity.
Apperceptive ∙ Blog Article
🚀 An up-close look at NASA’s Artemis II mission to return humans to the moon. It’s a comprehensive timeline of the key events leading up to the launch window opening on March 6. Pretty nicely designed page too.
National Geographic ∙ Article Series
🟥 Crocs made giant Lego Crocs. They’re exactly what you’re picturing in your mind right now. “The LEGO Group and Crocs have come together to celebrate people’s bold and unapologetic creativity,” say Lego. I mean, evidently.
Lego ∙ News
🤬 RageCheck analyzes any article or post for manipulative, emotionally baiting language. Interesting approach that would be valuable on actual social media platforms.
RageCheck ∙ Website
📸 What an unprocessed photo looks like. I loved seeing what the sensor sees, stepping through processing to the eventual JPG. Thanks to my coworker Mark for this one.
maurycyz.com ∙ Article
Clever, functional terracotta facade
🏡 Elegant intergenerational terracotta house. The screen facade is so clever. I can’t remember the last time I saw a dwelling so unified inside and out either.
Dwell ∙ Article
🥔 “Germans love their potatoes … but the exceptional glut of potatoes … inspired one farmer to organise a potato dump on Berlin”. There’s too many spuds so they’re giving them away. It’s bananas (by which I mean “potatoes”).
The Guardian ∙ News
🌀 Find the mazes you’ve been looking for with Labyrinth Locator. They vary in size, often things I would have walked past. But now my eyes will be open to labyrinths everywhere!
Labyrinth Locator ∙ Website
📺 Watch free, public livestreams from around the world on IPTV Garden. I clicked on Cooking and watched an Australian chef make homemade noodles. Very calming.
IPTV Garden ∙ Website
🌿 8 beautiful gardens. I keep this tab up as I sketch plans for reworking my backyard after everything thaws this spring. Gotta have something to look forward to in the middle of winter, right?
The Design Files ∙ Article
in Greenville, SC
Feature testing and polish are well under way here at HQ. Looking forward to telling you all about it soon!
Since I last wrote to you, we got 5” of snow here at HQ in Greenville, SC. To northerners that’s no big deal. But here, where we only get a powdered sugar dusting every couple years at most, it is. This was a real 15ºF dump that stayed below freezing for a couple days. Ideal for zinging down the hills on a sled in my neighborhood.
I’m looking at today’s weather, seeing the projected high is 70º. Time to break out my t-shirts again.
High five,
Justin Hall
Editor, Partner at Pathwright