@natureintheory is new (my own art only)
My main is @olena (Olena.tumblr.com) NiT is a Secondary blog; if I follow back it'll show main.
Old work | 2020
Stylized ZBrush speed-sculpt / study of a magical cauldron mug with swirling smoke; testing techniques and materials.
Just launched!
β¦ The Wave-Particle Duality / Double-Slit Experiment Rings β¦ A Candle in the Dark: Lantern Pendants / Earrings β¦ Infinity Ring
Available now on Shapeways!
Check the listings for info & sizes. Happy to make more options available upon request.
Hi #VisibleWomen, I'm an artist, designer, & art director who enjoys creating scientifically-informed & fantastical visuals in 2D & 3D.
Old work β 2019. One of my earliest 3D projects.
3D simulation loosely illustrating the impossibility of packing an uncountably infinite number of MΓΆbius strips into a 3D space.
Featured in the book βIllustrating Mathematicsβ by Diana Davis/American Mathematical Society.
Printed, cast & available now via Shapeways.
β For those unfamiliar, a simple summary:
In physics, quanta are "packets" of energy. For example, a photon is a discreet, measurable packet β a quantum β of light. If you fire a single photon through a divider with one slit, the resulting pattern on the detection screen is as expected: the mark of a single particle. But when the divider has two slits, things start to get interesting. Even if only a single particle is fired, the detector shows a wave diffraction pattern β that is, overlapping waves. That can only happen if a wave passed through both slits. A quantum of energy is both: a particle and a wave.
β P.S. Don't worry, this isn't becoming a jewelry account! Or conversely if you followed because of these: thank you & sorry, this isn't a jewelry account! I make art in a variety of mediums β mostly digital & mostly about science.
Old work β 2019. One of my earliest 3D projects.
3D simulation loosely illustrating the impossibility of packing an uncountably infinite number of MΓΆbius strips into a 3D space.
Featured in the book βIllustrating Mathematicsβ by Diana Davis/American Mathematical Society.
by Tajja Isen
βwith any gain in efficiency, you of course give up something vital in the exchange.β
βAI will give them exactly what they want. But it wonβt give them the thing they donβt know they want"
βIntention is part of what distinguishes art from mere content. Itβs easy to replace a process, but itβs harder to dislodge an entire value system, no matter how much overhead it saves.β
βIf you do not schedule system maintenance, your system will schedule it for you.β
I spent last night looking at Neocities sites and here are my takeaways:
There's a real push to keeping the internet weird, open and less corporate-driven -- info on bypassing paywalls, protecting your data, archiving web media and basic coding/tech literacy.
(I found one tutorial on how to make a pop up that detects whether someone has an ad blocker and suggests they install one if they don't! Love that.)
There's also resources on finding the kind of internet that isn't the default experience anymore - alternate search engines I hadn't even heard of, human-made link lists and webrings. (Webrings! Turns out they never went away!)
If any of that sounds interesting to you, by the way - sadgrl.online has a lot of it and is possibly the best thing on the internet????
The "90's web" aesthetic is really fun and nostalgic, but I particularly loved seeing some people bring the better parts of the "modern internet" into it. What if we had weird, eye-searing personal sites BUT with plaintext alternatives for accessibility purposes? CW for flashing lights and unreality triggers?
Most of all, I'm honestly emotional about all the sites I found that were like, "hi! I'm 14 and this is my website where I talk about stuff I like haha."
It's so good that so many kids and teens who never experienced the "old internet" are still finding stuff like this and making their own weird stuff! Not just because weird websites are more fun, but because these skills are being passed down.
Anyway it's great and who knows maybe I'll make my own site sometime to keep horror media recommendations or something.
This is a graph showing the progress in answering domain-specific tasks by gpt3 (blue) and now gpt4 (green). Of course, the green shows improvements in a number of areas, but what really makes this chart stand out to me is two things:
1. A number of these are *already* at 80%, meaning much better than the average human, and some are already near 100%.
2. The degree of improvement: gpt3 was already impressive on its own (note how many tests it already had over 60% score for), but the areas where gpt4 saw improvement didnβt just see small improvements, but some massive improvements, with most categories that had change, seeing something like 40% point increases, and the handful with smaller increases being categories that were already high scoring. Note in particular, for the Bar exam, it jumped from something like 10% to 90%! (!!!)
Thatβs what terrifies me. It took just one iteration to nearly master the bar exam from what was previously utter failure. My fear is that as people train for new professions which AI is not good at, that by the time they finish their training the AI will now have mastered it.
Papers are already coming out showing the threat to jobs which this technology posesβ¦ and the thing is, theyβre only going to get better. And if the jump from gpt3 to gpt4 is any indication, theyβre going to get much better, very quickly.
I was thinking about this today. Well, not specifically GPT but, I worked on this machine learning article just a few years ago and the images generation was... Well, here it is:
Goofy little guys, basically.
Here's the article:
& awesome opener art by Kevin Hong @taijuey (art direction, me):
Anyway,
Like I said, weird little guys. That was 2019.
And now look at the goddamn mess we're in. People think the pope wore a ridiculous white puffer jacket and that's the benign end of things.
We're in so much trouble. Media literacy was already bad and now... It's hard to think about.
Hi #VisibleWomen, I'm an artist, designer, & art director who enjoys creating scientifically-informed & fantastical visuals in 2D & 3D.
Old work | 2020
Stylized ZBrush speed-sculpt / study of a magical cauldron mug with swirling smoke; testing techniques and materials.
via Business Insider; original chart by epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina who writes an excellent, informative blog: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
If you're in the US, transmission rates have been in the red all year (they're also vastly undercounted; people who test at all are mostly using at-home rapid tests which aren't reported)
October 5th, 2022:
This is slightly hidden as the CDC switched to their nice, green "community levels" maps in early Spring of 2022. Those are based on hospitalizations, which we know is a lagging indicator. And severity doesn't predict long-term outcomes like long covid.
Current case rate in New York County:
β’ https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
β’ https://peoplescdc.org/2023/03/27/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-report-38/
Consider also that these are now under-counted; wastewater surveillance can be a better metric:
β’ https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#wastewater-surveillance
March 27, 2023: NYC waste is currently relatively low.
