I need to say this, even if it does not make sense until decades ahead: Human intelligence and a foundation of consciousness is just as much the ability to forget somethings as it is to remember. We will have to face eternal memories with AI technologies and this will be hard.

Generative AI is cool and all, but I continue to be blown away by the strides in real-time visual effects. Case in point — ripping through immaculate fluid simulations on an RTX 4090 using EmberGen:

collab with Etienne Jacob

AI can synthesize dynamic textures on 3D meshes without UV maps! MeshNCA is a model that can generate dynamic textures from images, text prompts, and motion vector fields. meshnca.github.io/?ref=aiartweek…

In 1956 Earl Nightingale produced a spoken word record: “The Strangest Secret”. It sold over a million copies, making it the first spoken-word recording to achieve Gold Record status. I owned this record since the 1960s and listen to it at least every January 1st. Join me.

♾️ "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒓" ♾️

In NeRF scans, objects aren’t typical 3D objects, but more like “pixels” scattered in space, without clear connections to each other. GARField is a method that can discern and group these “pixels” and extract them as individual assets. garfield.studio/?ref=aiartweek…

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

The first version of Infinite Craft, an endless crafting game, is out now! > neal.fun/infinite-craft/

for(float e,i,a,w,x,g,h;i++<90.;o+=.01-.02/exp(max(s,e)*3e3)/h){vec3 p=vec3((FC.xy-.5*r)/r.y*g+2.,g);p.zy*=rotate2D(.5);e=p.y;h=e+p.x*.3;p.z+=t;for(a=.6;a>.001;a*=.7)p.xz*=rotate2D(5.),x=(p.x+p.z)/a+t+t,e-=w=exp(sin(x)-3.)*a,h+=abs(dot(sin(p.xz/a*.3)*a,r/r));g+=e=min(e,h*.5-1.);}

#LiquiGen💦+ #UE5

During a solar eclipse, the gaps between leaves on trees act as multiple pinhole cameras, and each gap projects its own crescent-shaped image of the eclipsed sun onto the ground. 📹gottigreen

Do you see a red Coke can? Zoom in. It’s just black, white and teal dots

watching the notes play on mathematically aligned strings brings the music alive in a different way honestly i can feel my body grasping the music better

PUZZLE // PUNK // ESCAPE // TOUR // Our new VR game, LOVESICK, coming 2025 💔Wishlist for Meta Quest: meta.com/experiences/lo… 💔SteamVR: store.steampowered.com/app/3048100/LO…

forms & the code that produced them

Follow your nose to rescue lost sheep in the atmospheric world of The Free Shepherd. Coming to PlayStation 5 and Steam in 2027. Learn more: thefreeshepherd.com

🎁 A New Year’s gift to the geospatial community: a brand-new QGIS plugin that unlocks access to 80+ petabytes of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with zero coding required. In my first video of 2026, I’m excited to share what might be one of the most powerful QGIS

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gave my OpenClaw🦞 (fujiwara) it's own github account and it filled out a detailed pr to fix his own internal cron scheduler. github.com/openclaw/openc…