It was pleasure to talk to Sarper Yurtseven at the Day of Mathematics Istanbul this morning! We talked about my Geometry Daily graphics, my process, inspirations and – or course – geometry. The 45 minutes were recorded and are available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHp5UOlms-4 *
Sarper tried to recreate one of my graphics with generative AI. The results are super interesting and surprisingly three-dimensional: youtu.be/MHp5UOlms-4?list=PL7DHNy6n7rOjTTkRtrxbOL7OAVRk4_59O&t=2971*
www.instagram.com/p/Cp2upx8IplC/ *The team of the Mathematics Day Istanbul (!!) asked me to give an interview about my graphic work on geometrydaily.com* tomorrow. It’s streaming live, so tune in on 11.00 CET: youtube.com/MatematikTurkiye. *I don’t know if there will be a recording afterwards. Unfortunately the rest of the online event is in Turkish.
It’s verified that Meta has plans on building a social network based on ActivityPub. Here is an overview of what smart people say about this: fediversereport.com/meta-plans-on-joining-the-fediverse-the-responses/ *Very interesting read. I guess „ActivityPub“ climbs to be the buzz word of 2023.
What you are looking at is my personal website, which I keep going since 1999, over many iterations. It was portfolio, then a blog, then a one pager, but always my personal playground on the web. And just this moment I flipped another switch! Now it is driven by a new social microblogging engine Max and I are working on right now. That software is so new, it does not have a proper name yet. Let’s see where this is going …
Folks, this is a good time to download your data from Twitter: twitter.com/settings/download_your_data *I just requested my ZIP. It feels like I will download the last 16 years of my life.
Also, these are the last days you can use services like twitodon.com* or www.movetodon.org* to find your twitter friends on Mastodon.