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Prompts are just the starting point. Take image generation for example and the rise of ComfyUI and ControlNet, with complex node based workflows allowing for even more creative control. https://www.google.com/search?q=comfyui+workflows&tbm=isch

I see these AI models as lowering the barrier to entry, while giving more power to the users that choose to explore that direction.

Lambda function code available here: https://github.com/stratospark/zappa-s3-signature

Front-end code available here: https://github.com/stratospark/react-fineuploader-s3-demo

Very cool! I shared a small project to demo and explain how I used convolutional neural networks to classify food images: http://blog.stratospark.com/deep-learning-applied-food-class....

I'd be curious about the calorie detection. I'm wondering if it's using some kind of weighted sum of image segmentation proportions, or doing end-to-end deep learning.

Anyway, cool product, love to see where it goes!

code for training in a Python Jupyter Notebook, plus the web UI in React and Keras.js is available here: https://github.com/stratospark/food-101-keras

I've taken a look at the product site and I love it! I think it's perfect. Our son is obsessed with Minecraft and has recently been expressing interest about learning how to program. One question about the pricing, is would I be able to go through the lessons as well as my son? Or would we need to pay for separate accounts? The FAQ mentions something about up to 4 players per server.

Check out Field: http://openendedgroup.com/field

What sort of project are you working on?

Exploratory trying is a form of discoverability. Plus the whole social context of learning new gestures through friends using similar devices.

I looked at a Blackberry Playbook at the store and tried to use it without having ever seen anyone else use one before. I spent a good 10 minutes trying to figure out how to close an app before finally looking it up online with my iPhone.

We need a Todo example project to make this legit: https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc/tree/master/todo-examp...

Interesting. With this and ClojureScript, I might need to take a deeper look at Closure.

Detrus mentioned Processing and openFrameworks. Basically programming languages for visual artists.

Also Maker Faire for artsy DIY and hardware stuff: http://makerfaire.com/

Zer01, a Bay Area art/technology network: http://zero1.org/

I volunteer for those last two, send me a message if you're in the Bay Area and want to chat! I'm definitely a techie software engineer, but I'm fascinated by art, good design, and grand ideas about anything =)

I was hoping this would be about a controversial museum exhibit featuring archaic programming languages.

I'm starting to like javascriptmvc, they've come up with some good practices for organizing code, combining/compressing it, and testing it.

http://www.javascriptmvc.com/

Listened to this a while ago and thought it was pretty interesting. The Bourbaki story was particularly cool.

Any recommendations for similar podcasts? I know of Radiolab, what else?

Fascinating, can you recommend any good resources that you stumbled across in your explorations of music theory and math?

Why waste it? It's a perfectly valid state of consciousness. Look into dreaming techniques such as lucid dreaming. You might find creative solutions to problems or new ideas to integrate into your waking life.

I bet you'd enjoy some of the podcasts here: http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/. There are a few Alex Grey ones, but I'd bet HN folks would also appreciate the ones by Bruce Damer and Terence McKenna.

This is great! I've been interested in EEG, neurohacking for a while, at least in concept. Now that it's available for entry level hackers, what's the best way to get started? Does anyone know of good resources for EEG related signal processing, or algorithms applicable to brain waves, etc.? Thanks!

I would get a Manning ebook: http://manning.com/. Probably PostGIS in Action.

A /. commenter wrote some real funny satire about this: http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1720732&cid=329...

"If you find literature on Fourier Analysis, Electronics or Calculus in your child's bedroom, please get your child to Oklahoma and get them help from the nearest minister."

Gevent seems to be the fastest Python async server after Tornado: http://nichol.as/asynchronous-servers-in-python

I'd be interested in seeing node.js benchmarked against these.

Fluxus is another cool Scheme-based live coding environment, more focused on graphics and physics: http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/. Here are some awesome examples: http://vimeo.com/gabor/videos.

Web design is finally catching up to print design with the advent of CSS3 Typography. Front end designers will be able to have much more control over various layout and font parameters. I suspect current web-only designers are going to go wild until they eventually figure out what translates well from print to the web. Check out the cutting edge designs from time to time, for example: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/06/50-helpful-typogr...

I imagine you could get in touch with some of those designers who are exploring the area.

If you're sticking with traditional web design, any decent designer should be familiar with that. Check out their portfolios and see if their work could be compatible with your vision of your site.

But they're already using node to manage Global Thermonuclear War: http://wargamez.mape.me/

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Do well enough and you can buy the domain you really want...

Pick some web services at random a build a mashup: http://www.programmableweb.com/.

There are libraries that can make consuming APIs even easier. Find a python web framework like Django, Pylons, or maybe even what Google App Engine has, and learn the basics. No matter what mashup you come up with, you'll have to figure out how to work with databases, how to turn the data into something useful, and how to do a basic HTML/Javascript frontend.

Thinking about it more, App Engine would be a good idea since it'll get you up and running without having to make too many decisions about frameworks or databases, etc. Just go with what they give you.

Good luck!

If you want a more "guided" approach to Python webdev, try looking into Django. There's a large community that has built up around it contributing tons of plugins.

I say this as someone who is working on a Pylons site. You can do anything with Pylons that is possible with Python, you just have to figure it out yourself or twist someone else's library to make it work. Sometimes you don't need that much freedom and the guided approach will do 90% of what you need. Do a bit of research and see which approach best suits your needs.

Great username. Did you get that from a book?

I wonder if it's a beneficial thing to add extrinsic motivation to view a work of art. Shouldn't most of the value come from the work itself?

I imagine some people thinking: "This show sucks, but if I watch 3 more seasons I can get the badge like all my friends." Then the notion of Netflix could shift from highly individualized recommendations to novel social game to lowest common denominator social chore.

So would be allowed on iOS given the 3.3.1 clause forbidding alternative languages?

Having read Carr's book, he also mentions the fact that so much of our social lives has found its way online, that people can feel disconnected if they're away from their Facebook, or Twitter stream, or IM, or on demand email.

You're point is valid, that it's up to each one of us to find the right balance. It just becomes harder when unplugging from the Net is the modern day equivalent of pulling a Thoreau.