How we built Bluey’s world(itsnicethat.com)

343 points by skrebbel 1 year ago | 154 comments

An It's Nice That feature in which Bluey art director Catriona Drummond explains how the cartoon's background scenery and world were designed.

Drawn in the dock: the story of UK courtroom illustration (2020)(itsnicethat.com)

8 points by NaOH 1 year ago | 1 comments

Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive(itsnicethat.com)

127 points by sahar_builds 5 months ago | 28 comments

The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike(itsnicethat.com)

71 points by CrociDB 1 year ago | 50 comments

Elizabeth Goodspeed on the delicate art of nostalgia in branding(itsnicethat.com)

38 points by webmaven 2 years ago | 16 comments

Spaceship that mows the lawn(theinspirationallifestyle.com)

44 points by galfarragem 2 years ago | 23 comments

I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)

337 points by speckx 10 days ago | 212 comments

A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation(epoch.ai)

85 points by merksittich 16 days ago | 64 comments

Epoch AI report by David Owen presenting InnovationEval, finding early evidence that AI models cannot yet automate AI R&D or match human algorithmic innovation.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis(twitter.com)

2013 points by reasonableklout 5 months ago | 1180 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's X post arguing some companies are in 'AI psychosis', relying on agents to fix bugs fast (MTTR) at the expense of reliability (MTBF).

I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck(epestr.com)

77 points by epestr 1 month ago | 19 comments

A blog post describing how the author wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck, inspired by a CMake tutorial remark about ray tracers written in CMake.