Experiments Blogs

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• My date with an octopus — A blind date with an octopus? I fed that prompt to ChatGPT and it answered with a theatrical apology to "Octavia" and ev
• Problematic Pollen — Walking Passeig de Gràcia I tracked a stingy pollen mystery to Quercus ilex, the Holm oak. I recount simple street exper
• LED Wall — A wall of 960 LEDs reacting to music. I built it for London Decompression 2015 as my first electronics project. I cover
• Collaborative Body Control Experiments — Curious about collaborative body control with Kinect? In this post I document hands on Kinect collaborative control expe
• Curved Line Jellyfish — Curved line jellyfish emerged from a p5js sketch. I walk through coding a circle of points and anchor points placed far
• Forecast — What if paintings looked like weather maps and constellations. I built Forecast, a long-form generative art project laun
• Meaningless — Curious how generative art emerges from rules and chance? I unpack my ArtBlocks debut Meaningless, dropping 30 May 2023,
• DANCERS OF THE DEEP: JELLYFISH — A graceful ocean dancer in watercolor, long tentacles and ruffled oral arms. Through personal anecdotes I trace jellyfis
• What Is the Aesthetic Value of Science? — Science can be beautiful. In this post I unpack the aesthetic value of science, showing how experiments, surprising resu
• Accuracy and explanation: thoughts on Douven — Curious how much five heads in ten tells you about a fair coin? I work through Igor's eleven coins toy example, compute
• How Much Should We Give a Joymachine? — What if my neighbor felt a million times more joy? In this holiday post I imagine conscious AI joymachines Hum and Sum,
• Synesthesia and Memory Training — Could learning to see letters as colors raise your IQ? Here I lay out synesthesia and memory training research, from gra
• Finding bad flamingo drawings with recurrent neural networks — Ever wondered which Quick, Draw! flamingos are the worst? I repurpose a pre-trained Sketch-RNN recurrent neural network
• 6 Weird Pop Songs, Visualized — Curious how pop hits look as song lyric visualizations? I built SongSim, an interactive web app that creates self-simila
• In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia — Curious what the least viewed article on Wikipedia is? I grabbed 2021 pageview data for a random sample of about 32,000
• Trapped in Quicksand — Once a staple of Hollywood peril, quicksand is part myth and part real hazard. I explain what is quicksand, how sand and
• The hammer entombed in rock — A 19th-century miner's hammer trapped in limey rock sounds like proof of Noah's flood. I trace the London Hammer discove
• Adventures with Deep Research — I’ve been experimenting with new AI research tools and seeing how they actually perform on serious questions. This is a
• How To Grow a Mango Seed — I stuck a supermarket mango seed in water just to see what would happen. This is my slightly chaotic attempt at growing
• Be on Purpose: A Simple Daily Practice — Encourages treating “purpose” as an evolving practice rather than a single grand discovery. Through daily experiments an