That's a really neat demonstration! Would you mind if I use this code to jump off with my own tangent? (I want to hook the microphone audio into it, to control the patterns based off voice/music)
The way the patterns looked, felt natural enough that my brain was trying to make sense of the chaos.
It is a sizecoding/demoscene classic, which is a form of art.
Using it as-is tends to be discouraged though, because it is considered unoriginal and lazy for all but the tiniest of intros. Variations on it are fine.
not really for analysis but I built a tool that auto-generates some SEO metatags and it has a really thorough checklist to go through, along with linking to useful tools. check it out:
In engaging with enterprise and government stakeholders, I have found that if the technology foundation does not exist, it will be used as an excuse to not execute or improve. So, when an issue is raised, if you have come prepared to show that you can solve the problem with existing primitives or systems in a straightforward manner, it becomes much more challenging to assert the problem cannot be solved.
"We can solve this today; if you're asserting we can't, be prepared to prove it before the audience expands to encourage accountability." Whether that audience is higher up the leadership ladder, adversarial peer stakeholders more motivated to succeed, the general public, regulators/legislators, or journalists is situation specific.
The politics of the situation might make a perceived lack of technological solution a convenient scapegoat, that is true. However, from the HN comments section, suggesting a technological solution to a human rights abuse problem doesn't move the needle, because it is not a lack of technology that has caused the human rights abuse. You are responding to a non-issue that hasn't been presented to you and that you have no authority to solve.
The extension reports some minimal metrics around where the extension was used (just the hostname of the url) and by which user. Other than that the content of the webpage is proxied to OpenAI's apis.
I have plans to in future 1) make the metrics tracking optional and 2) let folks use their own OpenAI API key if they want.
Skip the job applications entirely (really, put 0% effort there) and go to tech networking events. Especially if you have some social skills. Worked for me at least.
I always thought that I should put as many people in the photo as possible in group settings, because more lively energy = better right? but my brother is a trained photographer and he encouraged me to focus on one or two people at most, to create a more interesting photo. it becomes a character study instead of a bunch of people where you don't know where to look.
I'm in the art scene, and when it comes to submitting proposals for exhibitions and being in art/film festivals and such, competing against other people being picked is surprisingly easy when you realise that most people don't study the brief that tells you exactly what the organisations is looking for. make sure you nail everything in the brief and you're in the lead, even if your art is terrible. I feel this is similar in nature, but taken to its extreme.
This means that to improve one's chances to gain publicly, one should adjust their art to the exact requirements of the publicity-producing organization, and not let artistic whims like "inspiration" ruin the day. Or, better yet, has to learn how to reorient the latter slightly to check every box when a checklist becomes available.
This requires a serious mastery of the art that allows to obtain exactly what's envisioned.
It also rubs many artists the wrong way, because they want to be led by the art, ideas, concepts, etc, and not by external riders. OTOH most great masters of the past worked under such conditions, with notable success. Michelangelo certainly had a rather detailed list of requirements for the Sistine Chapel paint job.
It depends on whether you're doing art for the artistic expression or to make a living. If it's the latter, you'll need to do what is asked or what is worth money instead of what you want. This applies to every creative endeavour, or hell, most of anything that earns you money. I don't want to sit here writing user stories that should ideally be fixed today, but it earns me money and I can do it so I guess.
in my experience, your submission does not have to be a carbon copy of what you end up making. you can check the boxes to make them trust your artistic ability - then you can make it yours, within reason. the money controls the art outcome, until you're banksy. a lot of great artists are able to stylistically and thematically change their art on a whim, by studying the materials/style and putting conscious effort in. this is not rare. modern art does not require mastery by any means and some of the more successful artists actively avoid perfectionism.
Modern art may not require visible utter technical mastery, even though sometimes it's demonstrated, too. What I mean by mastery is the ability to produce such an oevre that checks all the right boxes, and does not check any wrong boxes. In this regard, being edgy and provocative is the right trait to demonstrate, while overstepping it and, say, showing something that can be seen as bigotry is not comme il faut. Navigating these boundaries efficiently is what I also mean by mastery.
I mean, anyone's free to create whatever art they want on their own time and dime, and accept that it may or may not resonate with others and their pocketbooks. If you're applying for a specific thing for someone to give you money and they've said what they're looking for...yeah, you should probably conform to that.
I'm not in a grant field, but this comment reminded me of this video from attoparsec about public art grants from a few years ago that really resonated. My mom spent the last ~15 years of her career in a field that involved grant writing for public health projects, and many of the strategies were similar.
i have a friend who is great at this, so i picked her brain a bit. she does this method and i see her booking show after show without a social media presence. she does 90% studying the brief, 8 percent presenting her submission in a structured way (think: explain the idea, what lead up to it, how it will benefit the show, who she is, and even visualises how it will look by photoshopping her art into their space) and 2% submitting beautiful work.
Everybody other than the artists love that "presenting her submission" part.
Better than the piece. Better than the essay about the piece. They want the summation of the essay of the piece. Preferably with an associated pic of a cute art goth pixie.
Basically what we are all doing here on HN. We are social creatures by nature and the commentary and commentators are often more entertaining than the subject.
My dad is an accomplished artist but never wanted to play the art scene and mostly spent his career as a professor. He once produced an entire storage shed of metal sculpture than he later recycled for lack of anything better to do with them. I could only fit two in my house.
Even engineering contests are like this. I remember back in college there was a sustainable dog house competition with a very clearly defined rubric. My partner and I min/maxed the hell out of it and won first prize and $1,000, while everyone else built beautiful dog houses that ultimately missed the point.
There was a lot of emphasis put on insulation values, thermal mass, and temperature differential. Half of the dog houses were like 20 pounds and open to the air on all sides. We put a 150 lb garden on top of ours to act as a heat sink and then insulated all the walls of the dog house. We were able to keep 10 degrees below ambient after 3 hours out in the sun.
The rubric also put a ton of points on the technical report which seemed like an after thought for most people but at the end of the day it was an engineering competition so the whole point was the technical portion and the dog house display itself was kind of just the fun bit. We did really well just because we bothered to do all the requested calculations on life cycle cost analysis, heat losses, carbon balance, etc.
Our final product looked like a tank, but it won by a long shot.
> However, it's not suitable for applications such as art or games.
uhhh why not suitable for art? I'm digging into it right now and made some trippy stuff!
https://xor-pattern.netlify.app/
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