Future Sketches Talk Series 2025: Creating with Nature – MIT Media Lab What can observing nature show us about computation and creative practice?Join the Future Sketches group for the Fall 2025 edition of our Lunch Lectures: Creat…

I'm going to give a talk about birds and code and art and stuff in two hours:

www.media.mit.edu/events/futur...

The next video in the Laplace Transform sequence is up!

youtu.be/FE-hM1kRK4Y

Here, we dig into a concrete example, the forced oscillator. Some of you may remember that this was relevant for studying why light slows down in a medium.

Dr. Bob Wachter: How AI Is Transforming Health Care and What That Means for Our Future Artificial intelligence can now match and sometimes surpass physicians in areas such as diagnosis to empathy. What does that mean for doctors, patients, and the future of our health care? Join us for ...

This is one you're going to want to be at! @bobwachter.bsky.social has a new book coming out on AI & Healthcare.

He interviewed the best thinkers across the country and we're going to dive in.

This one will be best IN PERSON! @cwclub.bsky.social
www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-...

Omg congrats @ajyl.bsky.social

The Budding Rivalry of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner The two young champions, who met as teen-agers, are expected to face off at this year’s U.S. Open. A new book by Giri Nathan tracks their parallel ascent.

At times, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner’s concurrent ascent feels preordained. Expectations run high for them to meet in the final of this month’s U.S. Open.

Are You Applying for Tech Jobs or Tech Internships? We Want to Hear About It.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/b...

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

A day late but remembering the impact of Anthony Bourdain on Bourdain Day

Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs previously lost material by experimental French composer on a new album

Wow: "Painstakingly pieced together from hundreds of small notebooks, most of the new works are thought to have been written in the bohemian bistros of Montmartre in Paris where Satie worked as a pianist." www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

GitHub - steveklabnik/rue: A programming language that is a minimal subset of Rust A programming language that is a minimal subset of Rust - steveklabnik/rue

hey. hey.

don't be weird, okay?

github.com/steveklabnik...

Welcome to the AI trough of disillusionment Tech giants are spending big, but many other companies are growing frustrated

"For many companies, excitement over the promise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has given way to vexation over the difficulty of making productive use of the technology. The share of companies abandoning...has risen to 42%, up from 17% last year."
www.economist.com/business/202...

How Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward. | Quanta Magazine Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may soon power AI.

Progress in traditional computing is slowing — new chips are running into fundamental physical limitations that prevent them from getting smaller. Changing the way computations run could help keep progress moving.

‘MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING’ earns $24.8M in the film’s domestic opening day.

Biggest opening day ever for the franchise.

Read our review: bit.ly/MissionDF

Photos of Stockholm at night

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning | The Biggest Stunt in Cinema History (Tom Cruise) YouTube video by Paramount Pictures

It’s up there with this one
youtu.be/-lsFs2615gw

Tom Cruise explains how he managed his epic stunt For his latest Mission: Impossible film, the actor prepared for a daunting stunt by resting on a plane wing.

This is insane

www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...

Rick Rubin | The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The...

I'm a huge fan of Rick Rubin and Claude but this collaboration between Rick RubinxAnthropic seriously irked me www.thewayofcode.com. After publishing The Creative Act: A Way of Being which was a truly insightful book and a storied career in the music industry did Rick really have to publish this?

Meet @frank.computer , PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University.

Frank will deliver a talk at #Outlier2025:

“Thinking of 'Softerware:' Re-imagining Data Visualizations as Malleable Interfaces”

Explore the agenda: www.accelevents.com/e/outlier-20...

#dataviz #datavisualization

SveltePlot logo with the website address https://svelteplot.dev and a few example plots in the background

Last week I had the pleasure of finally releasing the #SveltePlot alpha version during my talk at the #SvelteSummit in Barcelona. It's a new visualization framework for @svelte.dev that I've been working on for the past 18 months, so it's about time for a 🧵

looking for more indie publications to keep up with! (fraidycat RSS :))

so far i've got:
- The Verge
- 404 Media
- Aftermath
- User Mag by Taylor Lorenz
- The Intercept
- The 19th
- The Markup

woud've added Polygon, but… [see latest news]

any other suggestions? (open to a range of topics!)

Why Language Models Are So Hard To Understand | Quanta Magazine AI researchers are using techniques inspired by neuroscience to study how language models work — and to reveal how perplexing they can be.

Building large language models can feel more like growing a tomato plant than building a machine, says Martin Wattenberg, a language model researcher: “You watered it, you weeded around it, but how on earth does that tomato plant work?”

‘THE BEAR’ Season 4 will premiere on June 15 on Hulu.

(Source: @omelete)

‘Bittersweet’: Famed conductor’s final concert brings symphony-goers to tears Michael Tilson Thomas took his final bow after three decades at the San Francisco Symphony.

‘Bittersweet’: Famed conductor’s final concert brings symphony-goers to tears

these plots reminded me of batman XD

How to Survive the A.I. Revolution The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better?

When A.I. automates human skill outright, tech giants—which own and develop A.I.—accumulate vast wealth and power, while workers are left without leverage. How do we increase the odds that A.I. works for us, rather than the other way around?

FYI I’m playing a solo concert in Prague this Sunday—

www.rudolfinum.cz/en/event/342...

It’s a similar issue with Claude, Gemini and gpt. They seem to ignore runes and the new v5 features.

that moment when you need google colab to run experiments

came across this visual story of llms
bbycroft.net/llm

Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

@flowingdata.com wrote this great article about chart guidelines flowingdata.com/projects/dis.... No idea if they could be applied for ai generated charts but I would probably use them as a base guide for checking if there any particular errors that stand out