Category: Shared Minds
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An Ode To Bridges
iterated on sand castles: project link here I walked past the Manhattan Bridge the other day. It made me stop and wonder. How many workers did it take to build the whole thing? How many setbacks? How did anybody get people to agree to actually go out into the water and lift each stone to its…
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Sandcastles, or The Invisibility of Editing
project demo link Directors get all the credit. Whenever most people (myself included) watch a movie, they think, “Wow, that Martin Scorsese… how did he think of all this?” And while good directors do think of practically every aspect of making a movie, editors are the ones really sewing a movie all together. Thelma Schoonmaker…
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Becoming HyperNormal
What is a cliche? It is a phrase, regardless of its truthfulness or lack of, that we have heard ad nauseam. Many come to mind: the grass isn’t always greener on the other side, you can’t judge a book by its cover, etc. They are, of course, culturally dependent with every group of people having…
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Trapped in Fragments
project code demo Each of us unfortunately is a product of our time. We all now live in a time of fragmentation. As Pinker notes, language itself is a marvelous intricate discrete combinatory system of words and logic that allows us to connect with one another, the construction of language is not in a vacuum.…
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A Symphony of Guessing
coding project link From the prompt, the question that stood out to me the most was: “What do [neural networks] offer as media for our internal life?” Currently, my relationship for Large Language Models is one of pure function and text, not media or art. I ask Claude to help with my code. The model…
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Wading
code project link I think in jumbles. Jumbles of words, jumbles of half-formed images, a vague sense of some feeling clambering its way to get out. I find myself floating in thought. Waves of priorities come to me: food (planning the day around meals), drink, obligations (“what do i have to get done today”), feelings…
Ryan Rotella 