Fun tool for generating hallucinations from a tiny speech-to-text model. Drag your cursor around to mangle the speech audio streaming into the model, which spits out weird text. Then assemble poems. Didn't boost this when I built it last year, but it was a fun project. mishearings.evanking.io

That t-SNE of the different Bluesky communities making the rounds is pretty cool, but so is this live 3D visualization of the firehose. Guess I missed it the first time around? Kinda relaxing to lean back and let it wash over you @theo.io firehose3d.theo.io

Finishing up evals for the new Moonshine v2 speech-to-text models we're rolling out, and it's... exciting. We're right there with NVIDIA pushing the accuracy frontier while doing it with much smaller models, a team of < 10 engineers, and microscopic GPU spend.

Had a great time chatting career trajectories, on-device AI, and model specialization versus generalization with @petewarden.bsky.social on the @eetimes.bsky.social Silicon Grapevine podcast youtu.be/XbSQtaZ_QM0?...

Edge to Impact: Building Human-Centric AI Models at Scale

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Excited to start sharing more about the Mirage, a generative groovebox sampler I've been developing these past few months. It uses tiny, on-device generative audio models and a voice interface (powered by Moonshine models) to create new sounds on the fly.

This is a positive thing as far as the historical record is concerned. It will preserve the names and likenesses of people that were brave enough to stand up for their community.

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 7mo ago

TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”

Work in tech often rewards thinking only in abstractions, which makes it easy to miss downstream impacts once your projects are shipped out the door. Building stronger ethical literacy feels increasingly important.

makena kelly@makenakelly.bsky.social · 7mo ago

SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...

Another strong case against the idea that everything AI should be cloud-connected. The privacy liability vanishes when you do it on-device, at the edge.

CBS News@cbsnews.com · 7mo ago

Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged the technology giant's voice assistant had illegally recorded users and then shared their private conversations with advertisers.

It’s easy to forget that global political powers have been engaged in continuous information warfare for 10+ years. Many mistake the radical and disgusting takes they see online for what “real” people think. Even among real people online there is a selection bias – normal people don’t post all day.

I rarely wade into politics, but: Pretti was a model American and, importantly, a model of healthy masculinity. He protected and healed others, was in touch with nature and animals. He was executed by a federal government driven by toxic masculinity: cowardly, shameless, and self-obsessed.

Now that everyone is walking around saying "it's not X, it's Y", it's obvious that AI speak has been internalized by the culture

Going from Rev 1 (left, mid December) to Rev 2 (right, mid January) of my hardware project took some long nights and a lot of soldering, but it’s really coming together.

Many AI boosters are forgetting that the most important part of work is the subjective, human aspect: empathizing with customer needs, communicating effectively, and understanding tastes and trends. A human can prompt an LLM into effectiveness in these areas, but it will rarely get there on its own.

Feeling a sense of relief when the AI coding output is garbage; it’s a good heuristic for the novelty of the work. But using the AI to do today’s novel work will create training data for the next model iteration 🤔

Keyswitch and LED circuit coming together for a step sequencer. Using a dedicated PWM driver IC for controllable brightness gives much better results than my first attempt (bitbanging a constant current LED driver in software)

Realized something recently: MX-style keyboard switches are great general-purpose buttons. You can experiment with different 3d printed keycaps, and they're super tactile. I just wish they were a little easier to breadboard.

Still working out my relationship with coding agents. When you enjoy the process of creating, it's hard to see the value of the process diminished. You also become less capable if you offload the cognitive lifting. But they can help you overcome blockers, and learn things in your own way.

Having fun building the UI for my generative sampler project. These tiny OLED displays are pretty expressive for their size

I was daydreaming about a scuba trip to SE Asia recently and this workflow was useful: 1. Ask for a list of dive spots with descriptions 2. Reformat into .kml (importable in Google Earth) 3. Ask for another list of tourist destinations, also export as .kml 4. Self-plan itinerary by proximity

The Verge@theverge.com · 9mo ago

Google’s AI Mode can now help you visualize your travel plans

Trying to cram 9 buttons, 2 pots, 8 leds, 8 resistors, 2 ICs, and an OLED display on a Pi HAT proto board

Adolf Loos describing planned obsolescence in 1908 is a good reminder that there's nothing new under the sun.

AI begets a 21st century Dadaism; it shows you the form of familiar things, but they flow into one another in a situationless manner, devoid of context. AI researchers would call this a "world model". Right now AI can approximate the distribution of the form, but has no model of the function.

K. Thor Jensen@kthorjensen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

One of those rare things that tempts you to dust off the VR headset

a stinky ox 🐂@stinkyox.bsky.social · last yr.

This is rather cool, it's an endless procedurally generated museum based on Wikipedia. Nice to wander round, particularly in VR. Spent a good while in the surprisingly vast hall of soup earlier. https://mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-all-things

cool project: www.flowstate.cc lets you filter your feeds based on the types of content you do/don't want to see. e.g., no public freakouts, no rage bait. tools like this could help people regain agency over their digital experiences

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Building web experiences to reverse mindless scrolling /

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students using AI on assignments; teachers using AI to grade them. sending emails written by AI, so recipients can respond with AI. building an app with AI; deploying it to be used by AI agents. the implication is that we have no interest in doing anything. what are we freeing our time up for?

this george grosz painting hasn't left my mind since I saw it at the hirshhorn museum a few months ago

still not going to post

opening up the computer in the morning, seeing all my tabs and windows and Documents from the day prior—it’s like coming home to a happy family. Each file is like an old friend. And nothing beats hanging out with your friends 😃

beginning to realize i enjoy cable management more than using the things the cables are connected to

attaching a 12x scope to my iphone and targeting a food truck QR code from 300 yards away