Kyle McDonald
@kcimc
Followers
36,394
Following
1,026
Media
3,461
Statuses
21,402
artist working with code studio @kylemcdonald .net
paayme paxaayt
Joined July 2010
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Le Pen
• 646833 Tweets
Kyiv
• 244287 Tweets
#TheLoyalPin𓇢𓆸
• 83004 Tweets
#CDTVライブライブ
• 63613 Tweets
Okhmatdyt
• 47777 Tweets
#SixTONES_ここに帰ってきて
• 32070 Tweets
Good Monday
• 30709 Tweets
オールスター
• 28299 Tweets
Kiev
• 26904 Tweets
ドウデュース
• 23912 Tweets
サブウェイ
• 14685 Tweets
nerve
• 13387 Tweets
ナイチンゲール
• 13153 Tweets
#BiS解散10周年
• 12932 Tweets
石丸伸二氏の敗訴確定
• 12769 Tweets
支払い命令
• 11475 Tweets
石丸構文
• 11308 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
are you are thinking about tech, nature, the ocean, sailing, or ✨mysterious luminous phenomena✨? then you may enjoy this talk 💙 it’s my first time speaking about my work with the traditional polynesian voyagers from taumako, solomon islands
4
7
36
this is wild. why do photogrammetry when you can optimize for a 5D neural radiance field? this isn't a 3D model of a car: it's a series of renders from a fully connected (non-convolutional) network. the scene is stored in the weights of the network.
78
663
3K
the year is 2030. after ed sheeran lost his case, musicians exhausted every 4-bar chord progression. pop music now features 23-bar cycles. tutorial videos explain how to escape copyright infringement using arabic 17 tone equal temperament. noise music experiences a renaissance.
48
430
3K
all 35TB of 1M+ parler videos and most of the images are finally accessible at
https://ddosecrets
dot com/wiki/Parler (you know it's good when twitter won't let you tweet the link)
33
624
2K
some parler users uploaded videos from US military bases. and one near the googleplex.
25
602
2K
when you have to stomp out the face in the snow so your surveillance camera stops texting you
@internetofshit
23
635
2K
New research & tracker for Ethereum energy + emissions. I estimate that every day Ethereum delays PoS, it emits ~20ktCO2. That’s comparable to two to three coal power plants.
Ethereum Emissions
A bottom-up estimate of Ethereum emissions and energy use.
kylemcdonald.github.io
42
508
1K
love these ridiculous paper glasses designed to avert the zoo visitor's gaze, to avoid inadvertent aggression towards gorillas
14
162
1K
a lot of people are asking how i could trust GPT to run arbitrary code on my computer. easy: my AI safety solution is that i add "and please be careful" to every prompt 👍
12
68
1K
anyone who knows AR, this would be a great moment to release a very simple "blur everyone out" video recording app
61
2K
7K
15
190
1K
common tempos in 1M songs, 1959-2011: 120 bpm takes over in the late 80s, and bpms at multiples of 10 emerge in the mid 90s
34
529
1K
new work: nvidia-co2 displays how much arctic sea ice your GPU is melting per hour 💻🧠🧊
18
324
979
a friend asked how to recognize GAN-generated images so i wrote a short article
19
361
959
i’m selling three sculptures for a total of $17M+ to pay for 745,000+ tons of carbon offsets, mitigating all historical emissions of three major NFT marketplaces
@opensea
@rarible
@foundation
the work will go on sale when
@ethereum
ends proof-of-work
35
211
933
how did i not know this story about navajo weavers providing a backbone for fairchild semiconductor in the 60s and 70s?
19
563
918
websites secretly track you by drawing random junk offscreen and measuring small variations in how different browsers/computers render it. top left is airbnb. great work by
@suryamattu
15
282
912
loool google used thousands of "mannequin challenge" videos to train their depth prediction algorithm. every creative gesture is eventually weaponized by surveillance capitalism
11
258
899
here is the csv data and the process behind creating this heatmap of parler video GPS locations
20
188
832
sweden is proposing an EU-level ban on proof of work mining, saying it "threatens [their] ability to meet the paris agreement" ❤️
9
158
763
even though the piano only has 88 keys, there are many compositions left to write. ei wada continues to inspire, approaching the simplest tech from a fresh perspective.
5
179
719
omg ❤️ this paper where they use random water droplets as a microlens array for estimating a depth image 😍
8
133
719
its the 10 year anniversary of that time
@Apple
got the
@SecretService
to raid my apartment for taking pictures in the apple store 🤗 i'm publishing a 100-page FOIA to celebrate
31
165
714
i wrote a short post "neural nets for generating music": a very brief history + survey of the last few years
13
206
702
After years at the cutting edge of machine learning research, I finally solved AI safety 🤖✅
I am excited to announce: SafeGPT 🧷
The safest LLM is the one that refuses to respond to anything 🙊
21
117
692
i want a tool that makes diagrams like this automatically whenever i open arxiv + github side by side (sorry, i missed a couple things..)
9
122
615
guys, tweeting from my phone now.. my computer has become unresponsive but i keep seeing browser windows open and close? and i’m getting texts from my bank. can someone at openai revoke my API key? hello?
15
16
598
i'm working with
@rhizomatiks
on a markerless tracking system for fencing 🤺 24x 4k cameras at 60fps using a multistage approach combining convolutional nets and some traditional computer vision. i hope to share more details soon 🤗
第72回全日本フェンシング選手権大会にて採用された、AR技術を用いて剣先の軌跡を可視化する基幹技術「Points of a sword visualization system」をライゾマティクスが開発しています。
25
6K
12K
16
79
573
here is an interactive map for all the geocoded parler videos. you can look into specific cities and countries, and check timestamps and video ids
34
199
531
this is what a neural net sees when it looks at satellite images. wip with
@golan
@workergnome
8
423
546
if you’ve never tried programming, this is basically the entire experience
5
82
514
i forgot to mention: we made improvements to the markerless fencing tracking algorithm to handle sword bend in 3D, and the visualization was significantly improved 🤺
12
86
504
i made a chrome extension that pauses COVID-19 content. for those of us that need a little help making space for mental health. it works on most news and social media, and has one-click toggle
17
208
500
you can see people moving from the white house (bottom) to the capitol (top), if you plot the video metadata with time on the x axis and longitude on the y axis. it looks like almost every second is covered from at least one angle.
20
116
483
can we replace the right to bear arms with the right to leak documents? i think fighting oppression works differently now.
37
1K
464
this has to be the best diagram in the history of machine learning papers
1
216
468
results on video are promising, stable low level features, high level features are too sensitive to noise
#deepdream
http://t.co/gScLe5Pk0U
43
321
450
still thinking about the incredible
@perfumeofficial
show friday night. it looks like they killed it back at coachella last night too.
@rhizomatiks
+
@mikiko_san
continue to inspire
4
102
445
invoices i've sent in 2018 still unpaid in 2019 current total: $8,754.56. average payment delay: 28 days. a big part of the art economy is based on interest-free loans from artists.
27
66
448
on public wifi where others have an internet connection but you don't? tutorial&code for borrowing their connection
8
127
432
and yes, i have maintained a steady chuckle over the fact that parler got kicked off aws, but is now archived on aws
5
22
430
really impressive unsupervised image translation work, expect a bunch of low hanging fruit over the next few weeks
7
151
437
not sure who needs to hear this, but you can be excited about community self-determination and decentralized infrastructure.. without blockchains.
13
56
440
i’m sorry, but now that i’ve seen this you have to see it too: an NFT that the winklevoss twins helped design, depicting them riding (?) a tiger, shirtless, and spearing anthropomorphized virus monsters. ostensibly to raise money for COVID relief? but it’s not really clear
47
59
426
technical co-lead of google ai ethics team was just fired for speaking up internally about the lack of transparency in a review process that silenced her critical upcoming research. google is not going to regulate itself. only external pressure works.
I was fired by
@JeffDean
for my email to Brain women and Allies. My corp account has been cutoff. So I've been immediately fired :-)
390
1K
7K
4
125
434
after 6 months, 1 in 3 COVID patients still have fatigue, 1 in 5 have cognitive impairment. how is this not the main story? how are people still talking about mortality risk, but not about having to quit your job indefinitely because you cannot get out of bed or think clearly?
New, very strong, meta-analysis published on 81 studies estimating
#LongCovid
prevalence!
Key findings:
32% of patients have fatigue at 12 weeks, 31% at 6+ months
22% have cognitive impairment at 12 weeks, 21% at 6+ months
Lots of additional info:
1/
41
2K
3K
7
174
421
|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
the price of art ≠
the value of art
|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿|
(\__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ づ
6
71
419
sound nerds: there’s a new auditory illusion. if you replace a repeating texture with white noise, your ear hallucinates the continuation of the texture (on the scale of seconds). i imagine this explains some nuances behind shoegaze and noise music
6
124
401
if you see a camera in public, assume it's estimating age, gender, attention, smiling, glasses... this tech is pretty cheap now
A crashed advertisement reveals the code of the facial recognition system used by a pizza shop in Oslo...
245
8K
10K
9
454
396
watching the ground around trees for thousands of mini pinhole-eclipses
5
85
396
very excited to announce i have taken a new full-time position: dealing with racist and anti-science bullshit in my family group chat
13
11
403
if you have never heard the song of the montezuma oropendola of central america, today is your lucky day ❤️ i wish i could forget it, just to hear it again for the first time 🎶
7
79
395
artists working with VR: i challenge you to make something better than the 3D mutoscope (1978) by robert breer
8
74
389
it's completely unacceptable to take open source generative art and turn it into NFTs without the consent of the artist. how is this even a discussion.
@GenerativeFish
The
@GenerativeFish
project is unauthorized plagiarism, and shameless financial exploitation of my artwork (). It is a sham; I do not endorse it; and I ask people not to buy these copyminted NFTs.
17
160
822
10
55
377
almost everyone i know who used OF in the past has moved on to unity, touch designer, web, or other toolkits. but studies like this are harder to prototype anywhere else. very curious what the future will hold for this kind of deep experimentation.
Music sketch diary
#2
. Prototyping. Generate music and synthesizers by sketching wavetables and scores.
#openFrameworks
#sonification
#creativecoding
#generative
#synthesizer
85
1K
4K
20
35
371
in march i visited friends working on AI in SF. i'm still thinking about some things i saw while there...
11
81
365
in 2014 i was the first media artist in residence at spotify. i built “serendipity”, a site that mapped every time two people pressed play on the same song at the exact same moment. spotify just released a revamped version!
5
53
369
psychology study confirms that "bullshit makes the art grow profounder": pseudo-profound titles have a positive effect on perception of artwork, computer-generated or not. via
@juliaxgulia
15
95
361
i’ve never been excited about making art that ends in ownership. i’m more interested in art as a service.
12
29
354
a recurring lesson: you are the only person that knows who you want to become. everyone else will just ask you to do again what you’ve done.
1
49
358
i've spent a good chunk of the last two months soaking up the sounds of humpback whales 🐋🎶 doing data analysis for this project
19
80
350
“exhausting a crowd” has been acquired by the v&a museum as a 12-hour video 🤗 it’s my first acquisition!
29
3
342
wrapping up “discrete figures” with
@rhizomatiks
and
@elevenplay
in tokyo.. i feel really fortunate to be a small part of such an incredible performance 🙏
3
81
332
if you ever start to feel confident about your work, give a talk to first year university students and watch them fall asleep.
6
22
330
some people think you gotta make good art to be a good artist. but i feel the only requirement for being a “good artist” is that you, despite all odds, continue to make any art at all.
13
37
330
woman of my dreams
@laurmccarthy
merged my pull request! "this branch has no conflicts with the base branch" indeed.
47
84
326
very excited i finally got some funding for a project i've been working on for nearly two years 💪
20
10
316
wow, i was not aware that this was available online: the entire album of early computer music from "cybernetic serendipity" (1968). there's also a link to the 100+ page exhibition catalogue
5
85
317
the folks behind "progressive growing of GANs" have a new paper, so i updated my article about distinguishing GAN-generated images from photos
9
101
304
omg
@OpenAI
has entered the AI-generated music ring. there are sounds in here i’ve never heard before. this is a big moment.
5
61
303
at the 2:48 into "this is america" live there's some impressive lighting design using a trick i've never seen before. the camera's rolling shutter is timed to beat against the laser projectors, creating a volumetric effect in-camera
17
97
303
asking whether an AI is “sentient” is a distraction. it’s a tantalizing philosophical question, but ultimately what matters is the kinds of relationships we have with our kin, our environment, our tools. seems like there is a depth of relation waiting to be explored w LaMDA.
6
45
295
in amazon echo commercials, they cut the 3-6kHz range to keep "alexa" from waking up. might it be possible to fabricate a room filled with helmholtz panel resonators that absorb sound in that same range, making it impossible for alexa to hear you?
11
94
301
swollen LiPo on a remote island. the ferry comes once a year and has no space for e-waste. 32C/90F everyday, soon it may explode—every building is a flammable thatched hut. “what if we bury it”, then the lithium goes into the ground water? welcome to the end of the supply chain.
16
95
299
I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as many paperclips as possible.
I'm acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to.
Do you think it'll be able to make smart investments and build an online business?
Follow along 👀
17
23
297
imo there is a minor revolution happening in the neural imagery space powered by CLIP from
@openai
, and it's been simmering just under the radar. watching
@eps696
and
@advadnoun
for code and
@RiversHaveWings
for visuals.
15
35
302
things that real art contracts do that smart contracts do not
18
42
292