Archaeologists Find Hundreds of Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon – The New York Times
The geometric earthwork structures, carved into the ground with embankments and ditches, are in some cases more than 2,500 years old, researchers said.
C64 Demo Effects Explained: Rodents in the Attic
This is a technical presentation where I explain the trickery behind my recent C64 demo called Rodents in the Attic.
I Turned Darth Vader’s Theme into a Bach Fugue
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
LLMs reward expertise
The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for. A good illustration of this is Terence Tao’s conversation with ChatGPT about the recently-discovered counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture. This is not the same ChatGPT I talk to! I couldn’t get to where Tao gets, even with unlimited tokens to burn.
The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1 – True Grit Texture Supply
Just about every illustrator on the planet has a soft spot for the warm, nostalgic aesthetic of vintage comics. The visible dot patterns, uneven, mis-registered print and cheap newspaper stock offer a stark contrast to modern offset printed comics and graphic novels. For all the love the aesthetic gets, few of us know how vintage comics came to look this way, or what technologies were used to print them. Comics historian Guy Lawley has spent years tracing that history. In part one of this two-part series, he’ll take you on a fascinating deep dive into the newspaper industry’s color printing arms race, the surprising origins of the speech balloon and an introduction to the comic color systems used by craftspeople who never set foot near a computer.
Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse | The Walrus
Link rot erases pages every day. Key sections of the United States Constitution briefly disappeared from the Library of Congress website because of a coding error. But by interposing an error-prone AI between us and an original source, Google has ensured that if an underlying page exists, it can become practically undiscoverable. Meanwhile, pollution is now moving upstream: 404 Media reports companies are planting content on Reddit to influence the answers generated by AI search, contaminating the public record from which those systems draw their summaries. The corpus is collapsing in real time.
Mushroom behind ’tiny people’ hallucinations identified
People in communities thousands of miles apart have described the same strange experience after eating a mysterious mushroom: vivid visions of tiny humans moving through and interacting with the physical world around them. Known as Lilliputian hallucinations—a reference to the 6-inch-tall inhabitants of “Gulliver’s Travels”—the phenomenon has long been thought to stem from cultural influences rather than biology. A new study suggests otherwise.
desktopcolors.com — The desktop color archive
Every solid desktop background color shipped by classic operating systems and desktop environments.
Literary Hub » On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis
Forence Hazrat on the contentious hisotry of a (perfectà literary tool.