TITAA #68.5: Pink Moons
Machine Bullshit - Collections Explorer - Marey - Creative Kimi - Doodle Land - Cat Attack - Dating Carnac - RAG Slides

Lots of fun in this one, including a new video gen model that’s trained on licensed content, ➕ more navigable generative worlds and 3d splats, ➕ organic sim algorithms, ➕ the Odessa catacombs are not Safe Places, ➕ the backrooms in CSS, ➕ what happened to the lost colony and the “Croatoan” text, ➕ Carnac is really old, ➕ French bees are mad and ants are smarter than human groups, ➕ plastic painkillers, ➕ language of time, ➕ the Cat attack on LLMs, ➕ machine bullshit metrics, ➕ more LLM psychology, ➕ Kimi K2 wipes up creative writing benches, ➕ 104 anonymous slides of games with museums and artworks, ➕ a digital collections explorer tool open sourced, ➕ recent useful model releases, ➕ more RAG tutorial/slides and embeddings code releases, ➕topic models, ➕ tutorials, ➕ comparing Mac speech rec apps, ➕ and more.
Table of Contents:
AI Creativity (Video, 3D & Three.js)
Web Misc, Fun, Procgen, Arty
Weird News (Art, Archaeology & Folklore, Science, AI/LLMs)
Narrative & Story Telling & Games
NLP/Data Science/Infovis
A Poem