TITAA #69.5: Owls, Ciphers, and Sutras
Pictish Caves - Retro Sprites - Ciphers - Witch Video - LLMs & Owls - Storytelling Bonanza
Oof, I've had a hot week here in France, and spent my vacation so far doing less hacking than expected because of, well, trying to make it cooler inside (insulating windows, extending hoses on A/Cs…) and getting stuff for a camping trip. Sending this out without any intro article, so I can get back to my hacking and packing!
In this mid-month issue, among others: 👉 Open-sourced world 3d gen models 👉 Chaining videos 👉 Cheaper video models 👉 A Pictish art cave site 👉 Story book, story board, story ripples, and story gen 👉 Lots of narrative research 👉 Petroglyphs 👉 Modeling Fair play in books 👉 Occitan Tarot 👉 Cipher diaries 👉 the o3 authored Xeno Sutra 👉 Sprite generation 👉 Owl adoration by token/number entanglement? 👉 Claude and ascii fish art 👉 AI playing Infocom 👉 Symbients 👉 More new OCR and document models 👉 Training tutorials (including new tiny Gemma) 👉 Data visualization conference talks 👉 BertTopic 👉 Apple’s new embedding atlas 👉 A poem about wrecks and myths.
Table of Contents (will be links on site):
Narrative & Story (lotta stuff here this time…)
Weird News (Archaeology/Folklore, Science, LLMs)