Beyond AI — Visual Imaginative Synthesizers
Keep it Jungle — A visual SynthesisVisual — outputs images. Imaginative — able to produce creative output, and in some cases original output. Synthesizer — takes input, preprocessed data together and creates the output.IntroBleeding-edge AI projects such as DALL-E and MidJourney are all the rage in the modern digital art world. They are best described as concrete software implementations of a new class of systems we should name **Visual Imaginative Synthesizers, **or just VIS. This is prefera...
Beyond AI — Visual Imaginative Synthesizers
Keep it Jungle — A visual SynthesisVisual — outputs images. Imaginative — able to produce creative output, and in some cases original output. Synthesizer — takes input, preprocessed data together and creates the output.IntroBleeding-edge AI projects such as DALL-E and MidJourney are all the rage in the modern digital art world. They are best described as concrete software implementations of a new class of systems we should name **Visual Imaginative Synthesizers, **or just VIS. This is prefera...
It shouldn't take years for smart people to understand cryptocurrencies
This post was inspired by this recent nice nakamoto.com blog post It Will Take Years for Smart People to Understand Cryptocurrencies. The ideas behind crypto are revolutionary, however, they are not that hard to get a grasp on once sufficiently considered. At the most basic level, it is useful and beneficial to think about just three powerful fundamental crypto ideas: (i) decentralized money, (ii) a decentralized financial system, and (iii) a decentralized Internet. The basic idea is decentra...
It shouldn't take years for smart people to understand cryptocurrencies
This post was inspired by this recent nice nakamoto.com blog post It Will Take Years for Smart People to Understand Cryptocurrencies. The ideas behind crypto are revolutionary, however, they are not that hard to get a grasp on once sufficiently considered. At the most basic level, it is useful and beneficial to think about just three powerful fundamental crypto ideas: (i) decentralized money, (ii) a decentralized financial system, and (iii) a decentralized Internet. The basic idea is decentra...
Ted Nelson’s Unfinished Revolution for Web3 Builders
WYSIWYGTruth in advertisingOnce upon a time, in the ancient web1-era of the late 90s… a public symposium was held at Stanford University to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Doug Engelbart’s 1968 “Mother of All Demos”) and all that it represented and inspired with futurist Paul Saffo as Master of Ceremony. What we have left today, almost 25 years into the future, is a low quality Youtube video of some of the event’s sessions which is not very watchable due to old analog video recording techni...
Ted Nelson’s Unfinished Revolution for Web3 Builders
WYSIWYGTruth in advertisingOnce upon a time, in the ancient web1-era of the late 90s… a public symposium was held at Stanford University to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Doug Engelbart’s 1968 “Mother of All Demos”) and all that it represented and inspired with futurist Paul Saffo as Master of Ceremony. What we have left today, almost 25 years into the future, is a low quality Youtube video of some of the event’s sessions which is not very watchable due to old analog video recording techni...
