Rodolfo Ocampo
@_RodolfoOcampo
Researcher and PhD student in human-AI co-creativity @unsw AI Researcher @leonardoai_ ⊂ @canva Ex @google, @csiro, @3Ainstitute
I stumbled upon my new favorite spot in the latent space and I brought you back literally thousands of images. Here are some! My prompt: "flowing rivers in the australian desert the abstract feeling of soft flowing soft colors"
Solar-farm-core 🔥
Solar farms look gorgeous due to massive size. One of the nicest example Karapinar/Turkey
Paris is going green — fast. In 15 years, air pollution's been cut in half, parking spots replaced with trees and parks, and streets turned into bike- and pedestrian-friendly spaces. If cars go, urban forests can grow. 🌿 More via Scape: uitgeverijblauwdruk.nl/tijdschriften/…
This is what happens when housing becomes investment. It needs to grow in value, otherwise it makes no sense.
Why does seemingly every country in the English-speaking world have an insane housing market? Is it something inherent to English common law that makes us not build enough housing or something?
That animals seemingly anticipate events should humble us more. Changes in groundwater chemistry, electromagnetic fields and sound waves make animals restless, distressed and even relocate In the West it is seen as ‘woo’ to contemplate that energy/weather humans don’t…
Talked to a rancher today and he said his cows moved to the highest point on his property, well away from water and stayed there about 4 hours before the flood. How do they know?
Do you ever stop and think about how unbearably beautiful it is to live in a world of photons and quarks and atoms and field theory? Pure thought as a substrate would have been so much computationally cheaper. We live in extraordinary luxury, in this sense.
2 weeks without smartphone internet significantly improved sustained attention. The effects were similar to being a decade younger.
"Freedom of speech!!"
Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation. It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end. ZA 54 of 64 citations are about Elon.
While we are obsessed with our little gadgets a much larger and consequential story is unfolding in the background. This is the real plot.
Look what we've done to our planet. Just LOOK! 1.1 billion hectares of forest GONE since 1900!
Our cities do not need driverless cars. They urgently need more carless drivers! 👰+🤵♂️+🚲=❤️
The only reason to do a PhD is to enjoy having 3-4 years to work on pretty much whatever you want.
You don't _need_ a PhD (or any qualification) to do almost anything. A PhD is a rare opportunity to grow as an independent thinker in an academic environment, rather than immediately becoming a gear in a corporate agenda. It's definitely not for everyone!
I think about the ipod shuffle everyday
people forget the short-lived buttonless iPod Shuffle, it was radical and unpopular I wonder if Jony will try to make the next device screenless and whether that can really work
The worst use of engineer hours (and AI) in history:
1% of all waking human hours are spent watching YouTube Shorts. 200B views/day x ~25s / 8B = ~10mins/day That’s ~2% for all of YouTube.
Remember when people were blown away by the fact that ChatGPT could help you play a choose your own adventure? How quickly we get used to things.
Chale, ya se me había olvidado que hacer música es lo más importante