Hunter Dyar

@hdyar.com

Assistant Professor of Immersive Media. Educator, Creative Technologist, Photographer. He/Him. Pittsburgh.

Recently I've begun thinking about the "derivative" of LLMs, meaning how changes to the input produce changes to the output. Specifically, even if an LLM were deterministic, that doesn't necessarily mean that you can easily reason about how changes to the input produce changes to the output

cursed file formats students have used to send me assignment code today: - .docx code pasted in - .pdf of code also pasted into a doc - .png screenshot of an IDE - .heic - an iphone photo of a computer screen

hey outlook team. What is this? otherwise completely flat UI... i'm thinking purple mat-preview sphere tangented in a circle under a pizza slice lava lamp. The triangle? too big. Put bevels outside the sphere so it connects. inside? no connect. drop shadow. More shadows. light source? ha! Add dots

the error icon in Microsoft Outlook. It looks like the designer just started clicking buttons on FX layers in photoshop while their cat walked across the keyboard. Why is the dot purple? nothing else in the app has that color. Nothing else uses gradients like this. What's with the yellow drop shadow in the circle. 

IT's just a bunch of nonsense. It feels AI generated in the "locally coherent, globally ubsurd" way, but somebody made this. A human made these decisions. I think somebody in a 2D software was told to make it look 3D, and someone in 3D software watched and cried. I think the larger circle makes me want to cry, myself. 

Software should have whimsical, fun, and not be required to make sense! but the rest of this software is microsoft outlook. Nothing else is on this designers wavelength. This icon lives in it's own world. There's a file on oneDrive server in microsofts company that is just called 'fuckit.png'. 

I want to know why this is here. I want to learn this icons secrets. I want to take the purple default-shaded sphere with rim-light and throw it into the sun.

they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish

I'll finish getting the semester classes set up while these guassian splats process. plenty of time to do work during progress bars.... wait...oh no... my computer is too fast to get (other) things done :p

Another company announces another openclaw fork/clone, and we’re supposed to be impressed. None of these companies have any original ideas.

“Sure, ai is bad for students but…” Buddy, we’re all always students. An environment without passive learning is a terrible thing to surround yourself with

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

A close up of captain kirk getting his eyes scanned. It is cut off above the eyebrows and below his mouth.The same image in a thumbnail for Star Trek, the wrath of Khan. But AI has painted the rest of the image so that Kirk is a balding man in a business suit.