llama.ttf llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.

... what? fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/

an intricate illustration of Dante's nine circles of hell

there are only two options: a nested Venn diagram or the layers of hell from Dante's inferno

glad you liked it! Was a fun one to write 😁

Unreasonably excited to present THEORY IS SHAPES at alt.vis this November! Read on to find out what the "BLT Sandwich Theory of Visualization Consumption" (and other shape-based shenanigans) can teach us about theorycrafting in research 🥪🧲🧊♾️

The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1 How a 29-year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.

Now is a great time to read WIRED magazine’s 2015 feature story, “The Untold Story of Silk Road.”

There were good reasons why Ross Ulbricht was serving a double life sentence.

www.wired.com/2015/04/silk...

I don't know how many of y'all are watching the migration of American TikTokers to RedNote, but it's the most fascinating thing I've EVER SEEN HAPPEN ONLINE.

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I had a similar (but less detailed) spreadsheet for when I was deciding between PhD programs - glad I'm not the only one who does this 😅

also I agree that coming up with category weights, even if seemingly arbitrary, was helpful for thinking through what mattered most to me!

If you're interested in animating gridded data into discrete bins using webgl feel free to reuse our library: github.com/eurostat/reg...

The example shows a population grid of Europe being rolled out, and then groups the cells according to their populations.
#stats #webgl #cartography

How to make a good talk (and why are academics so bad at this)? Some guidance based on what I think a lot of academics fail to realize about what makes a good talk.

"How to make a good talk (and why are academics so bad at this)?" I wanted to give advice to an undergrad based on what I think is missing from (or wrong about) most advice out there on giving a talk.

Would love to hear people's thoughts on this (especially academics hehe).

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Many circles of different sizes, representing a visualization of inequality

The Gini coefficient is the standard way to measure inequality, but what does it mean, concretely? I made a little visualization to build intuition:
www.bewitched.com/demo/gini

Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede

“The majority has spoken, and researchers are moving en masse” to Bluesky, says @shaine.bsky.social.

Couldn't help myself and had to write about science twitter, X, bluesky and "the migration"...
www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

this, but microblogging websites

yooo youre in dc this sem?? congrats :D