sending well wishes to the first @nasa CHAPEA crew who will begin a yearlong journey to help us understand how humans can live and work together on Mars

This chart is internet-famous since Steve Jobs allegedly looooooved it. It shows how much energy (measured in calories) is needed to move objects by weight. A human on a bicycle is outrageously energy efficient. Cycling is the king of transportation!

Yeah, Twitter is dying, but did you know my team working on Vision Pro at Apple is hiring for a research software engineer? We're looking for experienced low-level folks who want to write software for science! jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/…

Inequality is expensive for everyone.

1912. Let that sink in.

Come work with us! #apple #job #visionscience #perception jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/…

...Except our eyes cannot zoom in or out. I wonder, if they could, would the brain have a way to take that into account when computing speed from optic flow?

(from The Pragmatic Programmer)

David Attenborough is now narrating my life Here's a GPT-4-vision + ElevenLabs python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth:

This paper is so cool: dangeng.github.io/visual_anagram… It shows several kinds of illusions that I had never seen before (e.g., color inversion illusion). It's exciting to see more and more cases like this, where AI opens up new kinds of art, rather than only imitating old forms.

Launch it 🚀 😎

Be Honest! Do you still call it Twitter or do you call it X?

Crazy to see how far AI video has come in the last few months The handling of shadows and light here feels like a new standard 👇 (from Endlesstaverns, made with Runway Gen-3 + Suno)

BREAKING: The Kamala Harris campaign just released their first ad. Retweet to make sure every American knows who Kamala Harris is and what is at stake this November.

The moment she hit him on the crowd sizes, I went:

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“The primary use of ‘misinformation’ is not to change the beliefs of other people at all. Instead, the vast majority of misinformation is offered as a service for people to maintain their beliefs in face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”

What a brutal takedown. 👏