Interested in all things visual and data, like data visualization. ISOTYPE collector, synth dabbler, runner.
Robert Kosara
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New on eagereyes: The Strange Beauty of Solargraphs eagereyes.org/blog/2026/st...
New on eagereyes: The Strange Beauty of Solargraphs eagereyes.org/blog/2026/st...
Solargraphs capture the movement of the sun over time, often weeks or months. They are taken with pinhole cameras on photographic paper, leading to a very unique and ethereal look. The results are str...
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Solargraphs capture the movement of the sun over time, often weeks or months. They are taken with pinhole cameras on photographic paper, leading to a very unique and ethereal look. The results are str...
Unsurprisingly excellent piece from Ted Chiang about LLMs and particularly about Claude. Claude (or any other LLM) is not conscious or "intelligent" in the general understanding of the word, but if it were, then it would be, essentially, a slave.
www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Me: Hmmmm, should I look into some way to add comments to my static-site blog?
Claude Code: here, let me build a commenting system that creates PRs on your repo with a custom-written Lambda and walk you through how to set it up.
Me: okay
Do I expect people to actually comment on a blog in this age of social media? Not really. Was it fun to add such a weird commenting system, even with the pain of AWS Lambda configuration and troubleshooting? Yes, absolutely.
Robert Kosara
Robert Kosara
I haven't been very active here or, uh, anywhere. But I just completely revamped my website and will be adding more stuff over time. I'm also bringing back some of the things I broke in a previous transition. Take a look and let me know what you think! eagereyes.org
Specifically, I've reimplemented my ZIPScribble map to be interactive. You can now zoom by hovering over the navigation bar at the bottom, by numeric range or by state (US only for now). eagereyes.org/app/zipscrib...
That's-a-me (when I was still at Observable)! We mostly talked about my background, industry vs. academia, visualization research and how much it makes it into products, and also treemaps. Oddly, pie charts only make a very brief appearance. It was fun to record, and I think it's worth your time.
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
