“A Persian miniature of the cosmic microwave background, from Herat circa 1600, trending on ArtStation”
“A universe made of Wang tiles in the style of M. C. Escher, trending on ArtStation”
lmfao I can't get the model to take Ivan Shishkin out of the orbit of kitschy landscape realist art
“The cover of Isaac Asimov's I, Robot in the style of a Persian miniature, from Herat circa 1600, trending on Reddit”
“'Study for Head of George Dyer' by Claude Monet, circa 1905, trending on Art Station”
“The birds of the world gather around the hoopoe, an illustrated manuscript of The Conference of the Birds, Herat, circa 1300, from the British Museum”
“Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Ilya Repin, oil on canvas, trending on ArtStation”
“A verdigris golem, trending on ArtStation”
“A body transected by lines of latitude and longitude, trending on ArtStation”
“Glass meridians”
Friend ran “Glass meridians” through MidJourney:
“A Persian miniature of the cosmic microwave background, from Herat circa 1600, trending on ArtStation” via MidJourney
“An ivory carving of the creation of the world, Nimrud, 1500BC, from the British Museum”
“The Burning of Merv by John William Waterhouse, 1896, from the British Museum” (Midjourney)
“Electron contours in the style of Italian futurism, oil on canvas, 1922, trending on ArtStation”
“Portrait of Ada Lovelace by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1859, auctioned by Christie's”
“A leopard in the style of Merab Abramishvili, 2005, auctioned by Christie's”
“The hearts of the dead are weighed at the end of days, Persian miniature, circa 1300, auctioned by Christie's”
“Attar and Ferdowsi in a dream garden, Persian miniature, circa 1300, from the British Museum”
Note the little bird in the sky.
“A forest of blood-red light, Ivan Shishkin, 1889, auctioned by Christie's”
“Portrait of Leibniz by Ilya Repin, 1889, auctioned by Christie's”
“Persian miniature of the Kowloon Walled City, circa 1300, from the British Museum”
“Painting of an alley in the Kowloon Walled City, Eugene Boudin, 1895, trending on ArtStation”
“A shop in the Kowloon Walled City, Eugene Boudin, 1895, auctioned by Christie's”
“Feynman diagram of muon-electron decay, Albrecht Durer, 1514, auctioned by Sotheby's”
@codexeditor “Figure 6 from 'Lake Baikal Disease: A Novel Syndrome?', Hadamard et al., Case Rep. Neurol., 2023”
@codexeditor “Leica Monochrom photograph of an alley in Taipei at night, ƒ/3.5, focal length 18.0 mm, exposure time 1/5, ISO 400, flash on, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art”
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Claude and I have possibly discovered a historical supernova from Roman sources
In De Natura Deorum, Cicero writes that two suns were observed in the sky during the consulship of Tuditanus and Aquilius, in the year when Publius Africanus was killed:
"Publius Africanus" here is Publius [Cornelius Scipio] Africanus [Aemilianus] who was murdered in 129 BC.
After building like eight personal wikis/information management systems/hypertext databases (and becoming exceedingly efficient at it) I'll say the problem is that 99% of their uses decompose into three disjoint usecases:
1. Todo list+journal 2. Learning 3. Reference archive
Roam-style things let you write simple todo lists (just a list with checkboxes) to organize your day. But todo list apps can provide more domain-specific functionality, like scheduling, reminders, habits, etc.
Learning can be done effectively by spaced repetition. Combining spaced repetition with notes (as in RemNote) is hard to get right. Most of the time it feels like notes with a shitty spaced repetition engine attached.