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11 stories from mailchi.mp have been shared on Kiwi News since 18 August 2023, with 18 upvotes and 3 comments in total. The latest was shared on 24 September 2024. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- 40 years of the Macintosh - Steve Jobs Archive
Photographer Norman Seeff recounts visiting Apple's offices in January 1984, days before the launch of the Macintosh, and photographing the Macintosh team forming a human pyramid. The article describes a playful, informal workplace and says the team, which Steve Jobs had managed since 1981, aimed to build "a computer for the rest of us." Jobs is quoted in 2007 recalling that the team believed every computer would eventually work the way the Mac did.
- 🌍 Unveiling Earth Commons 🌐
- Refik Anadol Studio Presents DATALAND, the World’s First Museum of AI Arts
Refik Anadol Studio is developing DATALAND, which it describes as a museum of AI arts designed for impact in the digital age. The studio, founded in 2014, says its artworks have been shown in over 70 cities across six continents. Under the artistic leadership of Refik Anadol Studio, DATALAND will bring together pioneers from the arts and sciences, with inaugural exhibitions planned at The Grand LA and news on online access and learning platforms expected in the coming months.
- Metamorphosis I by Darien Brito — Announcement and Allowlist
Darien Brito has announced Metamorphosis I (M1), a series of 110 generative works in which blocks continuously transform, mutate, and morph over time. Each piece's transformation steps, shaping function, looping sequence, and palette are determined by the hash generated at minting, and each token starts from the same point on refresh. Collectors can adjust rotation, color mode, animation speed, frame rate, aspect ratio, and loop segment, and can toggle a "traffic mode" that visualizes Ethereum network activity. Brito combines visual qualities from his earlier projects, Quadrature and Laterals, to deconstruct the idea of the perfect loop.
- 🌟2024 Here we Go!🌟 Funding the Commons
- The Low Budget Startup
The author's central argument is that startups can learn from Blumhouse's low-budget film model, and that low-budget startups may become a growing alternative to venture-backed companies chasing outsized outcomes. The piece says Blumhouse founder Jason Blum argues low budgets reduce risk, retain control and allow bolder choices, and that ego is the main reason others don't copy his approach. It cites Paranormal Activity, which cost $15,000 and had a box-office return of $193 million since its 2009 release. The text predicts founders will raise a few million dollars or less to reach profitability, preserving control and exit optionality.
- The Objects of Our Life - first time online video of Steve Jobs from 1983
Apple has released online, for the first time, the full video of Steve Jobs addressing designers at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen, then aged 28, as part of its digital exhibit The Objects of Our Life. The exhibit includes an introduction by Jony Ive and new content, and earlier audio from the talk had appeared online before. In the footage, Jobs looks at his notes often, offers analogies for the computer such as a brain, a personal assistant, and a means of communication, and spends over three minutes explaining what a software program is.
- FORTITUDE - Forging the Trillion Dollar Space Economy
Torsten, a London-based filmmaker, announces that his documentary FORTITUDE - Forging the Trillion Dollar Space Economy will be released on AppleTV on July 16. The U.S. premiere is set for the same day at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., with an orbital message from an astronaut on the International Space Station and opening remarks from a member of Congress. The film, which follows people who take risks and invest capital to turn science fiction into science fact, is his first since a 2016 Bitcoin documentary, and red carpet events are planned for London and Zurich in September. He asks viewers to order the film in its first week and to share it.
- Welcome to ArtBase Anthologies
Rhizome has announced ArtBase Anthologies, a monthly series of presentations on born-digital art and culture, made possible with support from Teiger Foundation. Each edition will present either a comprehensive survey of an artist's work, a snapshot of a historical moment, or a thematic curation of older or recent works. The first edition presents early works by Auriea Harvey and Entropy8Zuper! (Harvey and Michaël Samyn), beginning with entropy8.com (1995), and is curated with Regina Harsanyi alongside Harvey's survey show at Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI). The works can be viewed in emulation on an exhibition microsite, where Dragan Espenschied and Rhizome conducted conservation.
- FtCBerkeley is just 1 week away
- MIT's The Algorithm on LLMs (people test them as we do humans, but they aren't)
MIT Technology Review's The Algorithm newsletter argues that AI language models are not humans, yet they are evaluated with human tests such as the bar exam and the United States Medical Licensing Examination, and a growing number of experts have called for these tests to be ditched because they boost AI hype. Melanie Mitchell of the Santa Fe Institute says the meaning of human IQ-style tests differs when applied to a machine. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles reported that GPT-3 gave mechanically nonsensical solutions to a gumball-transfer problem that children can easily solve, and Tomer Ullman of Harvard University argues the field focuses too much on test results rather than how models pass them.