Nicky Bay is incredibly talented and prolific, my favourite macro photographer by far! Big fan of his spider photography, there are many cases where the only high-quality pics of some species will be his. I'm not as deep in the isopod world but this looks like an invaluable resource for people trying to ID + explore them.

On close inspection, this does not appear to actually be Nick Bay's website, but rather someone impersonating him.

His copyright is at the bottom of the page.

This video/project is a masterpiece by a master. I love Tom's dead-pan style of humour. Make sure to expand the security warning and watch the video!

You can easily make them at home (source, I did last weekend!).

- Dry ice (mine came from something shipped cold)

- Dark piece of metal (I used a 3D printer hot bed) on top of dry ice to get cold

- IPA vapour (I poured some on a shop towel)

- Some transparent container to house it all - I found a glass display cube on the side of the road, fish tanks or Tupperware also work.

- Torch or something to provide side lighting

Very cool to see evidence of the particles zooming around us, can highly recommend.

Nice build. There are cheap (<$20) commercial versions, often targeted at kids. They make fantastic gifts, I thought it would be a bit of a gimmick but having instant printouts capturing happy moments added a fun dynamic to a few family trips, and our fridge is covered with an ever-rotating cast of family pics. And because they're ~free, it overcomes the blocker of a polaroid having to be 'special' while still keeping some constraints vs just snapping a cellphone pic.

For what it's worth, Pangram (generally very accurate) rates this as 100% "We are confident that this document is fully AI-generated". The few paragraphs I looked at felt solidly AI to me too.

@maybe-tomorrow out of curiosity, is my guess that this is made with help from codex correct? (I'm trying to keep up my sense for the different default aesthetics of the different models, but this one I'm not sure about)

Thinking Machines have put out a string of incredibly high-quality posts lately. Hard to oversell how much cred it's buying them with the AI research community! Keep up the great work folks

What else has there been. I've only seen this one (which is great!)

Their Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference was interesting for me. Worth reading their others!

And this prompted me to record a video showing some of my random non-work usage recently, to give a feeling for what the app looks like :) https://youtu.be/Y2B27hdKMMA

Cool tool. I think I'm seasick now from all the scrolling. But cool tool.

We also showed it as part of Hamel's course: https://x.com/HamelHusain/status/1956514524628127875 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPr3HVp0eg) which is a longer example of the tool in action

We made the tool, and that will eventually be available on its own. But the method requires some discipline and 'unlearning'. It's very hard to show someone an AI tool and not have them treat it just like ChatGPT/Claude/... - that's the part that takes the time, and having a community of people working through different examples and case studies together is a lot more motivating for this than just staring at an empty prompt box :)

That's a good explanation, but I think the expectation when someone says they are "launching something" that is an antidote to AI fatigue, it may be better to say it's a course and a methodology. You aren't launching a tool.

I think if you give it a try, you'll be surprised. It is a course and a tool and a way of thinking. We often struggle to find concise language to describe something that is fundamentally new. Maybe after you've tried it, you'll be able to help us explain it better.

I'm deep in category creation myself, so I know exactly where you're at.

But as I'm sure you know, you need to get the language right in order to create the desire to try.

I don't personally have AI fatigue. Nor do I have the time to spend 5 weeks taking a course to use a tool that I don't have enough context for.

Being in Australia timezone wise, and launching a start-up doesn't help.

This doesn't mean in any way that I'm not rooting for your success. But as you know, the language of understanding something new is a long iterative process.