Ricardo is an industrial design engineer at Magic Leap, focused on designing immersive experiences in XR.
More about it here.

Experimental comics

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CF comics

Cool comic panels in this ArtReview text. How CF Brought the Weird to Underground Comics↗

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Listening: Hood

Broligarchs doesnt speak for Dave (ratfactor)

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I stick up heavily for Dave (ratfactor)↗ and his profound defence on why ‘broligarchs’ doesnt speak for him↗

These are the types of words that I save and revisit constantly. It represents my view in 99%. Full of truths and explains in detail a lot of the current tech problems. Here I selected a few quotes, but please make some time to read the entire text↗

“Tech”, as portrayed in the public eye right now is something I barely recognize. It’s almost universally negative: Social media, ad tech, blockchain, ‘AI’. I don’t work on any of that stuff. Am I even part of the same industry? (I don’t actually have an answer to that question.)

The trans community is small and vulnerable, which is exactly why they are being targeted. Which is all the more reason attacking them or attempting to erase them from history, like our government is doing, is gutless, spineless, brainless, and heartless. The transgender computer geeks are, by volume, some of the most creative, interesting, and prolific contributors we’ve ever had.

25week09 - Flip a real coin, find a labyrinth, review the html

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Lets play a game; enter here to flip a real coin↗
If tails, enter this labyrinth locator↗ site and lose yourself in the closest one to you.
If heads, visit the html review issue 3↗

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Listening: La Ola Interior - Spanish Ambient

Clásicas y oscuras

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Clásicas y oscuras

Clásicas y oscuras↗ is such an incredibly cool website with a collection of female characters in literature, cinema and music.

25week06 - Quantum foam and animated postcards

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Muybridge

Someone has a problem with animated postcards. And flip-books. Or any other physical approach to bring pictures to life.

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Quantum foam↗

[..] at this small scale, particles of matter and antimatter are constantly created and destroyed.

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I found this interview↗ with Tobias Rees by Nathan Gardels to be way too optimistic from my personal current AI views. Yet it has a lot of good points worth taking a look at.

Some people say AI has “only” pattern recognition. But I think pattern recognition is actually a form of discovering the logical structure of things. Roughly, when you have a student who identifies the logical principles that underlie data and who can answer questions based on these logical principles, wouldn’t you call that understanding? […] So in that sense, AI systems have a nascent sense of truth.

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If one wants to fall into an endless knowledge rabbithole, without the disgust sensation of doomscrolling, it is always good to visit the List of lists of lists↗

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The Sound of Love↗ is a collection of love comments left on bright tunes across youtube.

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Listening: Parasite Jazz

25week05 - Knowledge distillation and animation recs

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Company A sucked the entire human knowledge without paying a dime to its creators, and built its wealth with it.
Using the knowledge distillation↗ technique, Company B sucked the entire knowledge from Company A↗ and didnt pay a dime to Company A.
Company A complaint that Company B didnt pay to them.
We all should grab a big pack of popcorn and enjoy it at least for today.

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Anyway, let’s focus on one of my favourite magics in this world; animation:

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Lately I was reading the Nutrition↗ section from Grimgrains, this site populated by the wizards Hundred Rabbits↗ .

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Out there, I visited the Braun-Sammlung Ettel Museum für Design↗ in Moabit. Apart from the vast collection of industrial design objects, my mind was blown by the idea behind it; just an individual collector who decided to open his studio to anyone interested in Braun products. When I visited it, I saw him having coffee in a small part of the studio with his friends while visitors were taking a look at the collection. Looks like a cool plan for retirement times.

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Listening: kinoue 64