Just got this new book from Benj Edwards a few days ago.

Excited to dig in!

A GPT-4o generated image — so much to explore with GPT-4o's image generation capabilities alone. Team is working hard to bring those to the world.

Prepare to be Virtualized

i love to align large language models with human preferences

The Virtual Boy supported color graphics—as long as the game only produced shades of red 😁

When I woke up this morning, I found my Virtual Boy partying with a Bandai Pippen, Neo Geo AES, and a Jaguar CD system

The bad boys of video game history

Curious about Nintendo’s Virtual Boy? You’re going to want to read Seeing Red. I reviewed the manuscript last year and enjoyed the detailed analysis of this much-maligned, pseudo-portable game console.

Seeing Red is so good that I’m reading two copies at once: one for each eyeball

Stereoscopic reading

Macworld 2009 was the last year Apple had a booth at the show. They reportedly spent 25 million to create and mange the display. Once Apple left, the conference folded in 2014 after 29 years.

2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.

2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.

Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.

Story with Dina Bass: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I do truly think this is one of Americas great cultural institutions and have relished every diner breakfast I’ve had. For me, the experience is epitomised by those thick walled coffee cups, durable and everfilling; a symbol of industrialised care and abundance

Ars Technica has an excerpt of 'Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy' up with MOAR pictures (and they're in COLOR)!
arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05… The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Ars Technica Benj Edwards

Many people bought my BX Foundry joysticks as accessibility devices, and I was proud of that

トンネルの先にはどんな景色が広がってるかな

The only thing worse than a receding hairline is a proceeding hairline

Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web so that, every day, a stranger can say you did something wrong

Wow this is super cool—there's going to be an 'internet search engine' feature added to Google

Reminds me of a warning from Bruce Schneier: Due to AI, “We are about to enter the era of mass spying”

arstechnica.com/information-te…