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The lost Amiga art is never shown, in this article or any of the linked sources. The 9 images on that "lost" disk aren't actually displayed. The disk itself is the valuable object, kind of like Picasso signing a napkin. But, even the disk isn't shown. None of these articles say whether anybody tried reading the disk.

I travel often in Europe and see these AI assistants on many websites and apps now. Two things generally happen when I have tried to use them. First, nothing actionable is possible. They can't actually do anything. No trip changes, refunds, connections, or baggage tracing. It takes a significant amount of time to get to to the response, "Sorry I can't help with that, please call xxx during business hours or visit our website at xxx." Second, they invariably end up as marketing funnels with upsells offered in place of solutions. I see that as the main source of anger from others in airports. They try to deal with something and end up in marketing loops.

When I see AI assistance as a travel feature I assume it is not only going to be useless, but actively disruptive to my experience.

The most useful indicator seems to be rapid leg movement combined with no change in position. That's not typical cat criteria. Rapid legs usually mean position change (running). I would use a very small accelerometer on a front paw connected to BLE enabled microcontroller on a collar. That's the easy part. Triangulating position is harder. GPS would be too heavy, but you could use BLE signal strength from 3 different receivers around the house. I imagine someone has solved that problem before.

Or, you could put Yuri in a closed area with camera monitoring. Train a YOLO5 model in Yuri vision and let it monitor the area. You would have to simulate a seizure though. You could make a fabric facsimile of the animal and place it in different areas on its side. The shape of an animal in a seizure is not the same as when it's sleeping. It would be up to you to determine the difference.

"easily code and build products and stuff"

Those are three different things. Most of these AI agents can produce working code in different languages. Whether that matches tightly defined business needs is a different matter. Writing code that makes a P5.js sketch that animates a cat is a neat trick, but not something you can build a product around. Building products is a broad enterprise and can be very difficult, even with a full team of highly skilled engineers. Google and Facebook have access to the best engineers on the market and even they make products that bomb or go way over budget and deadline. The "and stuff" part is usually the part that makes money. Logistics, financial infrastructure, marketing, marketplace differentiation, and much more go into successful business built on software. An AI agent can describe those things in plausible terms, but can't manifest any of it.

What these platforms CAN do is help prototype experiments quickly. Then you could take it to a Dev team and have it built properly. I think that is an interesting future and will allow more people to participate in the early stages of some projects.

We should differentiate between truly low functioning schizophrenics that are in active psychosis and people who developed psychotic features through years of drug abuse. One is born that way or organically develops the condition, the other makes hundreds of small decisions that lead to destructive consequences that society is left to confront. Both are worthy of compassion. But, the latter has responsibility for their own choices. They should be held to a higher standard of expectations, including managing their own medical path and showing up to appointments.

One thing this article avoids, and most other advocacy articles do also, is acknowledgement of the vast numbers of mentally ill people who do prioritise their own care and participate in a structured treatment. It's disrespectful and ableist to group the worst behaviours of people that abandon their own care for street drugs, with the condition itself. Those people need to be held responsible for those decisions.

Consequences for destructive behaviour are crucial for a functioning society. Even many low functioning people understand consequences. What we have done is slowly remove the consequences for multiple tiers of progressively worse behaviour.

I have seen many freakouts and assaults in large cities and have also seen them act right up to the threshold of a consequence. Then when police show up, suddenly they know exactly what to say to get out of it. That is not someone who doesn't understand what is happening.

Involuntary hospitalisation needs to remain a tool, even as a last resort, to prevent escalation of conditions and for the safety of the general public.

I found one these all-in-one units out on sidewalk and thought I had scored a cool freebie. It was nearly new. Now I know why they threw it away. Total garbage and bricked without that HP+ subscription. Can't use the scanner because the ink is too low. The worst part is that I couldn't even reset the printer to use a new subscription! It was tied to the previous owner at a hardware level and support said I had to contact them to release their account, even though it was no longer active. The HP support forums are full of angry people trying to get away from these units.

Printers are still needed, btw. Maybe not in the USA, but Germany requires all kinds of paper documentation to be mailed. Many other countries as well.

The worst health advice and most conspiratorial food theories usually come from other tech folks in my workplace. The comments here seem to reinforce that.

As an artist and technologist living in Europe, I am glad to see a comment like this. It's refreshing. An open-minded and incremental approach to culture can be incredibly rewarding.

https://berlinartgalleries.de/

Inkscape, Audacity, and ffmpeg. I know professional designers don't like Inkscape for UI and path limitations but I have gotten used to it and can use it effectively.

There was not a single example of someone actually selling plasma, personal belongings, or living in their car to survive. The Bay Area technology sector has a huge variety of "tech jobs". The ones mentioned here are tech adjacent. Also, these folks would be in high demand in other locations because of their experience. Their decision to stay and compete in a saturated market doesn't make them "poor". I'm sure they are genuinely discouraged, but they have a wide array of viable options that vast parts of the world have no access to.

Chemotrophs (specifically chemolithotrophs) are bacteria that thrive near super heated deep sea vents. They can consume (oxidise) iron, sulfur, and a whole range of other elements and compounds we consider toxic or immutable. In return they produce a kind of sugar that tube worms consume. I hope that future plastic bio-mitigation research focusses on energy transformation and production like this. Instead of thinking of an impossible zero sum end result (destroy it), it's more future oriented to use plastic transformed into something new and consumable as an energy source.

Think like a tube worm to solve this problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotroph

- MacJournal

- Inkscape

- Reaper

- iA Writer

- Transmit

- LocalSend

- homebrew/cli: ffmpeg, imagemagick, pyenv, nvm

- Sublime, but I'm using it less and less. I tried so hard to support it and have bought multiple upgrades. But, the plugin system and environment handling is terrible. I dread setting it up on new installs or machines.

Cool story. Let's see it.

Geometric abstraction was advanced by Russian abstract painters from 1910-20 or so. Look for constructivism and supremism. They are much closer to what you are exploring than cubism. That early abstraction was looked down on after the Russian revolution because it didn't adhere to the new cultural programs. It gave way to social realism fairly quickly in Russia. Germans adopted it and Bauhaus was directly influenced by it. Cubism is actually an evolution of multiple perspective depiction. It wasn't so much about cubes and angles as showing top, down, left, etc all in the same image instead of just one perspective. Some think of it as a style that Picasso invented, but there were many influences that evolved over time and it wasn't just a style but a whole process. Many other painters of the time used a multi-perspective approach.

2000-2003 had groundbreaking visual experimentation. It was such an interesting time to be making things on the web. Flash is rightfully derided for technical reasons, but I saw some incredible art and animations made with it. That kind of aesthetic interactivity is long gone.

Automated landmine detection and marking. Aquafarming fish health monitoring. Insect detection and mitigation in horticulture.

This process has an interesting history. In 1937, Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin created a photoelectronic synthesizer that used images on glass plates to play music. It was called the ANS synthesizer and was used for the soundtrack of the Tarkovsky film Solaris. Somebody made an app version of it, called Virtual ANS, that is generally available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANS_synthesizer

A commercial product called Metasynth released in 1998 was the program Aphex Twin used for his song referenced here and also in the Matrix movie for the bullet time sound effects. It's amazing, but very expensive.

I'm an American living in Berlin. I do a fair of amount of photography here and have some perspective to offer. An important part of the privacy laws is the prohibition on sharing on social media. Even if you can legally take a photo, sharing someone's likeness on Instagram is not allowed without permission and is actionable in court. Newspapers here take care to share different images on social media than they do on their own websites. It's common to see faces blurred on Twitter or Instagram if they even share it.

Even if it is legal, Germans are quick to confront people taking pictures. They will get in your face and yell at you about it and tell you to delete images. It rarely gets physical, if ever, but up to you if you want to deal with all that. This happened to me twice when I was taking photos of crowds, once at a flea market and the other outside a subway station on the street.

Don't even think of bringing a drone. They hate them and the restrictions are severe. I have all the required licensing and insurance and still can't fly in most of the city.

You also need to be aware of cultural differences within the international community. Berlin has a large Arab population and their tolerance of photography seems to be very different, especially if women or children are included. Also, some Slavs and Eastern Europeans are extremely suspicious of people taking pictures of strangers. Be warned.

Don't take pictures on the trains or subways, even selfies. I have seen some people get angry about that.

Playtronica synths. They are touch-based sound generators that can be triggered with capacitive connections. You can make keyboards out of fruit. You can have 3 kids hold hands to form a connection that makes a funny sound. I have seen them at maker and DIY festivals and they are always a hit. I just looked them up and apparently they have all kinds of web toys to control with the hardware. Neat.

It is surprisingly helpful on old legacy projects with multiple contributors. It will imitate their code style and variable naming, even if outdated or poorly constructed. Saves time looking through spaghetti code to figure out why some function wasn't abstracted or named in a consistent way.

I disagree with that completely. You are arguing for a surrender of personal power and self-determination. It's a short journey between 'luck' as a concept and fate, magic, religion, or just random occurrence. If that's really your belief, then why try anything? I don't live like that. I have been able to succeed on merit or work and despite negative environments. Many, many others have as well, throughout human history.

This kind of pessimism seems to come when people want to justify surrender. Why bother trying another path if there are no second chances, right? Now in middle age, I have found the 100s of small choices we make to be just as important as any of the big ones. Sometimes these are more important. I have seen it in my peers as well. People who choice the same path had different outcomes from all the small choices they made along the way. It's easy to attribute luck or privilege, but perseverance is a crucial factor in most success.

In the other extreme, it makes me think of the generations that have grown up with respawn video games. When you die you just respawn. Those games are ONLY second chances. It's rare that anyone plays any game all the way through on the first life they're given. If you grow up immersed in worlds without consequences it can paralyze your decision making in real life. Not always, but I have seen some people retreat into these kinds of worlds and not want IRL decisions.

What we're reading about has already happened and repeated again at least 30 more times, in the past 3000 years it took for the light to reach us. If there is some kind of astronomical event that will eventually destroy us, it's likely that it has already happened and we're just waiting for the effects to arrive.

Yeah I was totally wrong about that. But, they are NATO and part of a whole range of economic partnerships. My main point is that lots of Turks are trying to move to Berlin and work in tech. OP will have a lot of competition.

(look at European cities like Amsterdam or Berlin which have homelessness rates approaching double most US cities' and even higher expenditures)

I live in Berlin and this is highly misleading. Amsterdam and Berlin are major drug centers and people move specifically for the supply and public services. Half of the Berlin homeless are from Eastern Europe and moved here for this reason. Other areas make up most of the rest. The number of homeless Germans in Berlin is very low. This has been widely reported and confirmed by recent census and interviews. The expenditures also include refugee (unplaced or unhoused) spending for people from Ukraine, Syria, and many other areas. Here are the real numbers: https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis/online?operation=abr...

Turkey is a member of the EU and is considered part of Europe in certain contexts. But, I assume you meant another European country. The main thing to consider is how many others are making the same move you are. There is a lot of migration happening and highly trained people in Eastern Europe and the Middle East are seeking better opportunities. Also, specifically Turkish developers are moving in large numbers. The German company I work at listed positions for frontend and full-stack web developers recently and was flooded with applications from Ukrainian, Turkish, Indian, and even Iranian applicants. Most of them were not in the country already and wanted the job for visa reasons. So, keep in mind that you will have a lot of competition. Also, blockchain/crypto experience is not as highly valued as people think it is. Be specific about actual languages and platforms you worked on before emphasising the blockchain part.

Art Review Generator. 4 years ago I released a small book of images made with an early GAN tool. I thought it would be interesting to have an AI write the introduction to the book based on analysing the images. My plan was to do some basic image sentiment and classification with AWS and feed those tags into a LLM for a few rounds of generation. Back then, all that was much more primitive and I ended up building a bunch of bridge code to make it happen. The real trick was getting something that sounded like actual art language. That didn't exist, it was much too general, so I made a tool. I scraped 50+ years of ArtForum Magazine reviews and trained a model myself. After using it on my own project, I thought it might be interesting to build a free site for others to experiment with it. So, artreviewgenerator.com was born. My big achievement is not using GPUs for the generation. All old school multi-core server muscle. It gets a fair amount of traffic and I'm now on various mailing lists as an AI company owner, which I find hilarious.

https://artreviewgenerator.com/

Estonia will be the European Silicon Valley. It allows companies to incorporate there without residency and has low taxes. It's the only EU member that allows that. By incorporating there, companies get access to EU economic mechanisms and the ability to form distributed teams around Europe. This kind of remote-first distribution will be the future. Workers that start with residency there can get a schengen visa which allows low-friction travel to most other European countries.

Cool place, but it doesn't show the work of individual artists in a rotating basis. It's more of a permanent museum. Also, they don't list the names of anybody involved in the games themselves, only brands. If games are art then they are worth attribution. Right?

I moved to Berlin for the art scene. When trying to research galleries to visit or catch up on new exhibits, the number of bad websites was overwhelming. Over 300 sites to slog through. It took a long time just to navigate all the GDPR consents, newsletter asks, splash videos, and broken links. They also don't post their own address in many cases. So, I built a list of galleries from 3 different directories and came up with a master list of 353 art gallery websites. I created a Puppeteer script that snapshots every site on Sunday morning and then an enrichment script gathers current metadata from the Google Maps API. There were some growing pains and problems with encodings that nuked Puppeteer. Also, some CDNs were aggressive and blocked the requests. Over a few months I worked through all the issues as a small side project after work. Now it works perfectly. It's an easy way to see the vibe of the Berlin art scene in a single page app.

https://berlinartgalleries.de/