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jhilden

@jhilden@vis.social

Information designer from Helsinki. Co-founder of Koponen+Hildén
Co-author of the Data visualization handbook / Tieto näkyväksi (Finnish edition)
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Richard_Littler, to music
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🧵 Punk vs Prog

Another cultural pundit on TV last night dragging out the threadbare 'Punk was a response to Prog Rock' chestnut. When TV documentaries repeat this punk/prog cliche they always cherrypick Prog's most ludicrous moments (that many prog fans don't like either) to support the claim...
At the time, John Lydon, wore a 'I hate Pink Floyd' t-shirt. Punks also wore swastikas but were far from nazis. Lydon says it was a performative gesture...

#music #1970s #punk #progrock

jhilden, (edited ) to random
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It is funny how Gary Larson went from a niche cartoon that you would find on mostly biology people’s noticeboards to widely popular meme fodder. He was in the 2020s back in the 1990s? Or the nerds took over? Or… both?

Maybe specifically a false memory, but I think I asked dad to explain Cow Tools. Some other Larson cartoons for sure.

aleksi,
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@jhilden Okay, so I have not one but two of these. The first one is a reprint from 1992, I think I got it in 1993. Both have close to 200 pages, with mostly four cartoons per page. The amount of quality stuff seems to be quite absurd.

One thought after a quick look: there’s a dark side to the far side but it’s not pretentiously edgy like so many things in the ’90s. (Well, the material in these is from the ’80s, but anyway…)

A Gary Larson cartoon where an elephant with one leg amputated and using a crutch is talking on the phone in a booth in the middle of a savanna: ”What? …They turned it into a WASTEbasket?”

BBC_News_Labs, to random
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Does showing media provenance — how it's made and verified — help build trust in news? We’ve been researching how information affects audiences’ confidence in BBC images and videos, and what level of are most useful... https://www.bbc.co.uk/rdnewslabs/news/does-provenance-build-trust

overholt, to random
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Just appreciating the cover of Electricity for Everyone (1897) https://www.weberrarebooks.com/product/134297/Electricity-for-Everybody-Its-Nature-and-Uses-Explained

maartje, to random
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I found a news paper from 2008, it had photos of articles printed in red-green 3D as a future view of how 3D can be applied to news...

Like the 3D displays we now all use... Oh wait... Be careful with hype cycles people!

seav, to Tokyo
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Did you know that there is a 1:1 scale replica of the world-famous #Shibuya Scramble intersection that can be rented by TV and film productions located 80 km northwest of Tokyo in the city of #Ashikaga? The real intersection is so busy that nobody can close it down for controlled filming.

This set was notably used in the hit Japanese TV series Alice in Borderland.

Location in OSM: https://osm.org/go/7Q9Mdm_mk?m=

#DYK #Tokyo #Japan

foone, to random
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Terrible idea: an author writes a book, but instead of releasing it, they train an LLM on it, and release the model.

So readers can ask the LLM to generate text based on it, but can never know the original text.

ids1024,
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@foone You can also imagine this inadvertently becoming the only record of some work, in some distant future.

Alien archaeologists: "Our records show that in the late days of human civilization, before the Antimatter Wars of the 2050s, the works of a bard named 'Tolkien' were popular. But after the Great Copyright Enforcement Purge of the libraries, then the war, all we have are excerpts, ritualistic graphics called 'memes' and one language model that produces in-universe erotic literature."

stux, (edited ) to Netherlands
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A single picture taken in the


Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal. Photo made by @robhoeijmakers

surrurrealismi, to random Finnish
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Sananen viikonvaihteeksi.

bleuje, to random French
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propagation of increased hilbert curve iterations

jeffjarvis, to random
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Google blew it. They could have stood back and said: "Ha! Microsoft is so desperate for hype, it is irresponsibly linking LLMs to Bing. Google instead stands for reliable search and won't do that." But instead, Google did. They knew better. They all knew better. LLMs have no sense of meaning. They should be nowhere near the expectation of credibility.

1pseudodeplus, to random French
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Parmi la petite exposition de cartes de Fotokino cette étrange carte de la civilisation au XVIIIe siècle avec ses cercles concentriques qui s'interpénètrent.

Cartes intitulée "la civilisation au 18e siècle". Elle montre l'Europe avec des cercles concentriques de différente couleur, illustrant chacune une civilisation différente : française, espagnole, musulmane, hollandaise, anglaise, etc.
Cartes et plans affichés au mur dans un apparent fouillis

molly0xfff, to random
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“Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue”
“If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell?

thank you to these new independent media companies like @404mediaco and Defector for giving us the headlines we deserve

FlanFlinger, to random
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Sadly I have no idea who photoshopped this

baldur, to random
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Ran across this on social media

"I just used ChatGPT to generate a 300 character regex for me, saved me an hour.

TBH if you aren’t using it that seems like a skill issue."

And it’s a perfect example of what I mean when I say that “AI” tools are a fundamentally conservative force

baldur,
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It will never tell you that your bad idea is bad. Doing even minimal research would force you to at least consider the possibility that this might be a bad idea with long term consequences about the maintainability of your project. ChatGPT will never do that.

It will never tell you that you’ve made a fundamental mistake in your assumptions or design.

Instead it will help you accelerate full-speed in the wrong direction.

JanWillemTulp, to DataViz
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Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in making yourself. Great combo of techniques, theory and practical example projects. By the great @flowingdata And it's been my honor to be a technical reviewer for this edition! https://book.flowingdata.com/

BIOSresearch, to random Finnish
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Tunnettu tieteen popularisoija, faktantarkistaja ja Our World in Data -sivuston aktiivi Hannah Ritchie kirjoitti kirjan "Not the End of the World", joka on saanut laajaa kansainvälistä huomiota. Ritchie peräänkuuluttaa optimistista asennetta aikakautemme kriiseihin ja esittää, että nykyinen sukupolvi voi olla ensimmäinen, joka voi "rakentaa kestävän planeetan". BIOS-tutkija Ville Lähde syventyy Ritchien teokseen ja analysoi sitä pitkässä esseessään.

https://bios.fi/optimismi-on-vaikea-laji-hannah-ritchien-teos-not-the-end-of-the-world-puntarissa/

belldotbz, to random
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🔗 New Piccalilli link: Look Mum, No Breakpoints!

Rob McCormick breaks down how they refactored their front-end with fluid type, flexible layouts and importantly, giving the browser more control.

https://piccalil.li/links/look-mum-no-breakpoints/

yabellini, to random
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This research shows that aptitude for learning foreign languages is a stronger predictor of learning to program than basic maths knowledge.

"These results provide a novel framework for understanding programming aptitude, suggesting that the importance of numeracy may be overestimated in modern programming education environments."

Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages. Prat, et.al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60661-8

framoriniii, to random German
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Found this nice paper about the concept of interaction in vis: https://hal.science/hal-02197062

A really nice read: clear, rich, and full of interesting and actionable concepts.

gregeganSF, to random
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Both popular science articles and many textbooks describe the Casimir effect — an attractive force between two closely spaced neutral conductors — as being due to the exclusion of some of the zero-point modes of the electromagnetic field, whose wavelengths are greater than the separation between the plates. In this account, the vacuum between the plates has less energy than ordinary vacuum.

A formula based on this model seems to agree reasonably well with the measured result. This has encouraged people to proclaim that “vacuum energy is real” and (sometimes) to suppose that this model can be pushed much further to predict larger regions of greater negative energy.

But in fact this force can be modelled as arising between the plates in a far more conventional way, related to van der Waals forces, which makes no reference at all to “vacuum energy”, and the formula based on zero-point modes can be seen as merely approximating a more accurate formula based on the material properties of the plates.

H/T Philip Ball on Twitter.

https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0503158

alan, to maps
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I'm greatly enjoying the latest version of the Old Maps Online website. It has a very smooth time scrubber where you can see political borders change through time, and then browse georeferenced historical maps from map libraries like the David Rumsey collection.

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

And just the interactive map without the historical scans is available at TimeMap.org

h/t @friedrich

koponenhilden, to random
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Do you have an information design project – small or large – that needs doing?

We work in Finnish, English and Swedish, and offer everything from single charts or maps to full publications and websites, including design and execution. We can also help with data analysis and insights.

Read more about our work in our portfolio:
https://koponen-hilden.fi/

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