there was a small spike with the "whole civilization will die" tweet. i wanted to respond to recent trends in the polymarketification of everything, abundant vibecoded dashboard slop that makes us feel like we know more than ever while also having less power than ever.
just had a flashback to approximately 2004 when digital photography bloggers discovered unsharp mask. those images felt so intensely detailed. i didn't have that feeling until i saw a retina display 5 years later, then HDR displays 10 years after that.
i made an app for tracking whether the oligarchs are actually fleeing city centers ews.kylemcdonald.net
it uses the last year of data to identify deviations from baseline
Kyle McDonald
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the lineup is really world-class, this is a once in a lifetime event www.axs.com/events/13087...
if you’ve ever wondered what my salary is, @businessinsider.com just published it along with some info about my apocalypse early warning system www.businessinsider.com/programmer-a...
i've never used times new roman for anything but i felt like prof or style was the way to go. the future of the web will either look handmade, or it will be ai slop contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/
the fencing visualization system i worked on with rhizomatiks
is coming to los angeles this weekend 🤗
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the team at rhizomatiks handled the hardware, visualization, & data collection. i handled blade tracking, which meant training multiple custom convolutional neural networks and deploying them across 24 GPUs to track the entire curve of the 1px wide weapons at 60fps in realtime
