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Eric Selland @chinmoku001.bsky.social · 8d

Notebook

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Eric Selland @chinmoku001.bsky.social · 22h

Today's paintings

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Eric Selland @chinmoku001.bsky.social · 22h

New notebook...

Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 11h

Fascinating article from the SFI on emergence ad LLMs

David C. Krakauer, John W. Krakauer, Melanie Mitchell

arxiv.org/abs/2506.11135

#AI #LLM #emergence #SFI

Emergence is a concept in complexity science that describes how many-body systems manifest novel higher-level properties, properties that can be described by replacing high-dimensional mechanisms with...

arxiv.org

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 16h

Design books

Laws of UX by Jon Yablonski

www.oreilly.com/library/view...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #UX #patterns

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 1d

Design books

The Life of Forms in Art by Henri Focillon

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #art #change #evolution

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 17h

from Continuities ~1990s

sewing with white thread
on white cloth, the hem
sewn up, ravelled

#poetry #place

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 17h

1st lines

flowing back dead from this moment

the hole in your hip is bleeding, all the creatures
tumbling out onto the tabletop of definition

we can't investigate because it is us, equipment
encumbrance ...

From Spinoza in Her Youth by Norma Cole 2002

#poetry #1stlines #France #translations

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 17h

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

#Booksky #2books #SciFi #change #DEI

How Will BC Power the AI ‘Revolution’? | The Tyee

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 1d

How Will BC Power the AI 'Revolution'? by Amanda Follett Hosgood via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

An important conversation, and not just for BC.

#Canada #BC #policy #AI

As the province prepares to capitalize on artificial intelligence, plans to account for its electricity use remain hazy.

thetyee.ca

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 1d

from Continuities ~1990s

in the expansion of π every time 4 occurs substitute π
or every time 4 occurs substitute the
expansion of π.

thermodynamic work.

balancing its weight.

#poetry #place #math

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 1d

1st lines

I had to recover the space
and give it symmetrical order.

I was walking.

A woman with no hair.
didn't seem bothered to wait
in front of a red
brick wall
for a man to approach her.

From A Lesson in Music by Jean Daive tr by Julie Kalendek

#poetry #1stlines #France #translations

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 1d

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

#Booksky #2books #SciFi #change

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 2d

Design books

Tim Ingold Lines: A Brief History

www.routledge.com/Lines-A-Brie...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #connection

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 2d

from Continuities ~1990s

lapse, a known moment
loose, to hang down

the world is its limit

white and any other colour
blue in the dusk,
shared continence

the air shared dust

#poetry #place

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 2d

1st lines

A woman measures.

A woman opens her arms
to determine lengths or
proportions.

She value
the sleep of this man who
will never sleep again.

From A Lesson in Music by Jean Daive tr by Julie Kalendek

#poetry #1stlines #France #translations

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 2d

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

#Booksky #2books #SciFi

Explorations of Open Games

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3d

Some thoughts on open games, games where the rules are created and changed as part of the game play.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/explor...

#games #opengames #innovation

The Perplexity Research Expansion on my initial notes (with some light human editing). Initial notes are added below.

www.linkedin.com

Slow AI: Designing User Control for Long Tasks

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting take on the user experience for AI applications that help people think though and execute on non trivial problems.

From Jakob Nielsen

open.substack.com/pub/jakobnie...

#AI #UX #UI #slowAI

Batch processing returns as AI agents run for hours or days, eliminating traditional turn-taking interaction. Slow AI creates control and observability problems; users forget context during long waits...

open.substack.com

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 3d

Design books

Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
By Rudolf Arnheim

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #art #perception

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3d

The compelling story of Faraj Bakyrakdar's prison poetry.

CBC Ideas continues to open my mind.

www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

#poetry #Syria #Arabic #prison #CBC

After surviving 14 years in brutal prisons, Syrian poet says 'it's time to write about life' | CBC Radio

For 14 years, Syrian poet Faraj Bayrakdar was imprisoned and tortured in a series of prisons. He found refuge in writing poetry. Now, the poems he wrote imagining the fall of the regime are coming tru...

www.cbc.ca

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3d

from Burnt ~1990s

stop listening to settle
slips, a moment’s notice
vanished. into the dark.

less detail in the sky
as the haze dries,
any constant less

the exposure stops. giving
idle sense a rest.
you smile at this?

#poetry #place

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3d

1st lines

I heard you are in a monastery
somewhere in the hills

maybe in Hangzhou
maybe in Yuehzhou

all this time apart
all this war and chaos

through this entire autumn
I've thought and thought about you
...

Du Fu 杜甫 tr by David Young around 767

#1stlines #poetry #China #DuFu #Tang #杜甫

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3d

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

#Booksky #2books #SciFi