Art opening in Nancy at My Monkey Gallery
#art #design #typography
https://apothecaryshed.com/2025/02/26/norm-at-my-monkey-gallery-nancy-france/
The talk that I gave about Letter Spirit (my 30 year old thesis project) in France last week has been posted as a video. #AI #ML #cogsci #hofstadter #creativity #design #typography
ML/AI, Typographic Design, and the Four “I”s
During this talk I will touch on Intuition, Insight, and Inspiration. First I will set the context by introducing the Letter Spirit project and its microdomain — work I published exactly 30 years ago as a Ph.D. student of Doug Hofstadter’s. I will spend some time discussing the role of roles (and other mental structures) in creativity and human perception. Then I’ll take a quick run through the current state of “AI” (really ML) so we get a feeling of how LLMs actually work. We will talk about WHAT MACHINES and relate them to human cognition. Finally, just as I get around to intuition, insight, and inspiration, I will run out of time.
I really like the proposed asterism symbol, ⁂, U+2042 to represent the Fediverse. “In astronomy, it refers to groups of stars in the sky, akin to constellations.”
https://symbol.fediverse.info
I might just add it to my fonts, (and perhaps boot the bitcoin, ₿, U+20BF, while I'm at it) Now to see whether I like hexacles (the bestagons) or pentacles..
#charactersetpolitics #fediverse #fonts #typography
Our In-Process blog is out! Featuring:
- Update on NVDA 2025.1
- Planning for CSUN
- What's on the web
- Reading paragraphs in Braille
And bonus history of the Pilcrow! (Ok I was interested)
https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-27th-february-2025/
no warmth in your voice
utterings as cold as snow
they are only words
#mastoprompt - warm
#dailyhaikuprompt - snow
ART Titled "Only Words"
@daringfireball Thanks, @mwichary, for putting a name—and great photography—to a font that’s everywhere! I found Gorton embossed on a (not that old) plastic measuring cup in my kitchen.
Then I looked at Chernobyl photos—sure enough, Gorton digits galore! (And who-knows-what Cyrillic lettering.)
So I was inspired to make a Gorton web clock with soviet-era reactor control styling (I’ll reply with how to read it):