Feed - Grant Custer

I'm loving some of the descriptions of internal complexity in How Buildings Learn, like this one from Brian Eno: That complexity builds out of shearing layers.

Stewart Brand in his shipping container Working on the digital tabletop got me thinking back to Stewart Brand talking about how he constructed How Buildings Learn: ...the most important tool for organizing projects is lots of horizontal space and immediat…

by Lawrence Weschler Cristóbal recommended this when I was working on my image sampler project.

I like Andy Matuschak's use of the word "physics" to describe a set of rules in software tn his talk on the possibilities LLMs open up for programming.

David Hockney talking about the difference between photography and painting: ...the reason you can’t look at a photograph for a long time is because there’s virtually no time in it - the imbalance between the two experiences, the first and second lookings,

View video Trying out canvas-based paragraph reordering pared with a live document preview.

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New on Constraint Systems: View video Branch - a collaborative collage of tree and branch photos.

by N.K.

Today I started in on blog revamp.

Experimenting with mini-browsers limited to specific urls or domains.

Put together a prototype writerdeck with the modos dev kit.

Experimenting with putting the embedded texts from Cosine into UMAP and then fitting to a grid.

View video by Durrell Bishop via Matt Webb's Filtered for that which motivates form.

View video Wikimedia concepts embedded and then mapped to a sphere with UMAP.

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by N.K.

View video Putting together a personal RSS reader that shows the original articles.

I saw the bowls (clinamen v.11 by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot).

by N.K.

View video Experimenting more with tiling at different levels-of-detail on a sphere.

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View video Trying out the small Modos Paper Monitor dev kit on an overcast day at the park.

Working on a branch concept Read on site

Thinking about how our computers can support intentional work Watch on Youtube Read on site

by Jordan Ellenberg I always feel mixed about reading popular surveys of a topic.

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My computer - featuring gruvbox light theme - in the rock garden.

Slanted Magazine put together a great collection of digital tools including several of my Constraint Systems projects.

From https://solander38.com/stories/solander-38 I thought this, on why they didn't retrofit their old boat, was an interesting point about design: It’s also worth saying that the Albin 25 is a jewel of a design, for the strengths and limitations of a small

A couple of my Constraint Systems tools (Mosaic and Pal) are featured along with a bunch of other open source design tools on mod.lab.

by becky chambers After feeling like Light was too mean I went back to the second book in this series which gets called (and is) cozy sci-fi.

The pathology of generative AI is that it too easily allows substantial form without discernible intent.

"the lazy brown fox jumps over the quick dog." glitching the embedding values and recovering vector mix Applying the 'trajectory' of a paragraph to a different sample sentence.

Hermit WIP Another pass Now with active window App ideas Read on site

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View video New on Constraint Systems: Sphere Paint.

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Trying out EVōC (https://evoc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to hierarchically cluster all my embedded blog posts.

I have different plans for drawing on this sphere but the effect of rotating (with arrow keys) while drawing is fun.

From Wikipedia via André's agent coordination project: Stigmergy is a form of self-organization.

by Peter Watts This was my second time reading Blindsight, the first was as an audiobook.

Early experiments with a couple of prototypes trying to bring agents and space together thoughtfully.

I've got a new small, single-purpose screen section in my office area and wanted to document what's running, practical lessons learned, and some questions still unanswered.

A few months ago I built a large bookcase for the guest room + office.

AI-native research environments with and for scientists.

Embedding search now active on this very blog: Home woodworking DIY Embeddings Maps Fast Forward Labs Read on site

I wanted my dock laptop to feel more like furniture - maybe nostalgia for the 'family room computer' from when I was a kid.

I wanted to document some of the work I've been doing at our house.