The year's biggest baby name style influencer: Raya and the Last Dragon. In a landmark for Asian characters, Raya was America's #1 fastest-rising popular name, and Namaari the #1 rising uncommon name #AAPHM #AsianAmericanPacificIslanderHeritageMonth

The new baby name data is out! Check out Namerology.com to find out the latest trends. What alcoholic drink appeared as a name for the first time? Which famous robot is erasing a name? Which steamy series had the biggest effect?

All excellent images, but the "cyclops" picture is just startlingly good. Kudos for a brilliant prompt.

SMASHOMANCY is a "divination system for cracked phone screens" and Danielle Baskin retains pole position as one of my favorite living creatives.

I'm teaching with @OpenProcessing for the first time, and am completely impressed with how polished and friendly the system is. Every detail is on point. Last class a student spontaneously said, "OpenProcessing is just so great." I agree!

The labyrinthine patterns traced by birds on the wing – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

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Students explore the aesthetics of computing in new computer science course at SEAS. "CS73: Code, Data, and Art" is co-taught by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas, and teaches students how to create abstract art and communicate data sets through visualizations. buff.ly/3GXpkTE

I want to show the NSF there would be broad support+utility for a "National Deep Inference" service for >100b LLMs. If your research would be enabled by an inference service on open LLMs w API access+overrides to internal activations, params, gradients: Please Like this thread!

Toasters have blinking lights, cars have speedometers. Should chatbots have dashboards too? A speculative essay: The System Model and the User Model: Exploring AI Dashboard Design arxiv.org/abs/2305.02469