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Here are things I've created myself.
FCC logo symbol
2023-05-30: Portfolio

FCC logo symbol

I designed the symbol for FCC's logo

Boardgaming animals
2023-05-29: Portfolio

Boardgaming animals

Industrial robots
2023-05-08: Portfolio

Industrial robots

An illustration with two industrial robots for FCC

Insidan - Office room booking system
2023-05-08: Portfolio

Insidan - Office room booking system

The office room booking system I created for FCC as a Wordpress plugin

Insidan - Conference room booking system
2023-05-08: Portfolio

Insidan - Conference room booking system

The conference room booking system I created for FCC as a Wordpress plugin

2023-05-08: Site News

Quote update

 I've updated the pages Quotes From Me and Quotes From the Internet.

2022-12-01: Site News

Christmas Squirrel cookie cutters

To aid everyone who's making squirrel-shaped ginger bread cookies this Christmas, I've added a page with squirrel cookie cutters that can be 3d printed.

Play Reversi!
2016-05-02: Site News

Play Reversi!

I added a Reversi (a.k.a. Othello) game to my site. The AI will improve in a few weeks, once the genetic algorithm I've written has had time to optimize the parameters.

2016-02-24: Site News

Site update

There's a new page about my favorite illustrators, a page about my Java games (although it's difficult to get Java applets to run in browsers nowadays), I've added a cake recipe (in Swedish), and there's a new image in the portfolio.

I've made some corrections to the site code; some minor functions are still missing, but as of this update, the site seems to be working more or less as it should, and I'll start concentrating on adding more content.

Also: It turns out I had forgotten to include the file responsible for saving portfolio image ratings. Go rate my portfolio images!

Elvis
2016-02-22: Portfolio

Elvis

A caricature for Caricaturama Showdown 3000

I bought some comics!
2015-04-24: Journal

I bought some comics!

I received a package today! For the first time in a long while, I've ordered comics from Yesasia and Amazon, including Åsa Ekström's new book about culture clashes and misadventures in Japan. Now all I need to do is to learn these stupid languages.

2014-12-23: Site News

Site redesign

I decided to switch to a new layout before everything was ready, partly to force myself to finally get it done, and partly to stress myself out for no good reason. Come back in a week or so, and I'll have much more content up. You should probably be celebrating Christmas now anyway.

Example layout
2014-04-26: Portfolio

Example layout

An unused layout for a project

Example layout 2
2014-04-26: Portfolio

Example layout 2

An unused layout for a project

Judi Dench
2014-03-18: Portfolio

Judi Dench

A caricature for Caricaturama Showdown 3000

Crow girl
2013-11-01: Portfolio

Crow girl

Pig robot
2013-05-23: Portfolio

Pig robot

My friend Anna likes pigs and robots.

Nothing Personal
2012-12-01: Portfolio

Nothing Personal

Cards for the board game Nothing Personal

Big Mary
2012-11-01: Portfolio

Big Mary

Bette Davis
2012-09-28: Portfolio

Bette Davis

A caricature for Caricaturama Showdown 3000

Found

Fun or interesting things from the internet.
2023-12-02: Music diary

Shuggie Otis - Strawberry Letter 23

2023-10-29: Link blog

Making Chat (ro)Bots

[scq]We created a robot tour guide using Spot integrated with Chat GPT

2023-10-20: Music diary

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Koto Song (Live in Belgium 1964)

2023-10-14: Link blog

Specification gaming examples in AI

A recently updated list of examples of how AI models have exploited loopholes in the task specification or environment to achieve their goals.

2023-10-09: Music diary

Henry Mancini - Lujon

2023-10-09: Music diary

John Mayer - New Light

2023-06-18: Link blog

Four alarming charts that show just how extreme the climate is right now

 I know there are a million people sharing temperature anomaly charts and maps lately, but there's a good reason for that. This is totally bonkers and people who look at this stuff routinely can't believe their eyes. Something very weird is happening.

2023-05-23: Link blog

Adobe Firefly

Firefly is our creative generative AI engine. It’s just landed in Adobe Photoshop.

2023-05-20: Link blog

Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold

Through DragGAN, anyone can deform an image with precise control over where pixels go, thus manipulating the pose, shape, expression, and layout of diverse categories such as animals, cars, humans, landscapes, etc. As these manipulations are performed on the learned generative image manifold of a GAN, they tend to produce realistic outputs even for challenging scenarios such as hallucinating occluded content and deforming shapes that consistently follow the object's rigidity. 

2023-05-11: Music diary

Ibrahim Maalouf - True Sorry

2023-03-14: Link blog

GPT-4

Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment.

2023-02-14: Music diary

Agnes Obel - Fuel To Fire

2023-02-05: Link blog

An Infinity of Choices

So I like the idea of being stingy with our goals for the new year. Make that New Year’s resolution to listen to fewer podcasts, to travel less, to never go camping. Pick things you explicitly won’t do. Your time is finite. A new year is not the time to pursue infinite goals; it’s a time to pick the important ones. And not everything can be important.

2023-01-21: Link blog

Concussions in professional boxing and MMA matches

According to a 2021 study of 60 boxing and MMA fights, 78% of the fights led to a concussion, and the fighter that sustained the first concussion ultimately lost 98% of the time.

Seems like strike-based martial arts amount to "last one to get a concussion wins".

2023-01-01: Link blog

Reversals in psychology

No good evidence that tailoring teaching to students’ preferred learning styles has any effect on objective measures of attainment. The effect of “nudges” (clever design of defaults) may be exaggerated in general. No good evidence of anything from the Stanford prison ‘experiment’. No good evidence from the famous Milgram experiments that 65% of people will inflict pain if ordered to. Lots of screen-time is not strongly associated with low wellbeing; it explains about as much of teen sadness as eating potatoes, 0.35%. The Pygmalion effect, that a teacher’s expectations about a student affects their performance, is at most small, temporary, and inconsistent, r<0.1 with a reset after weeks. At most weak evidence for stereotype threat suppressing girls’ maths scores. i.e. the interaction between gender and stereotyping. Good evidence against ego depletion, that willpower is limited in a muscle-like fashion. Questionable evidence for the “hungry judge” effect, of massively reduced acquittals (d=2) just before lunch. Questionable evidence for a tiny “depressive realism” effect, of increased predictive accuracy or decreased cognitive bias among the clinically depressed. No good evidence for multiple intelligences (in the sense of statistically independent components of cognition). Mixed evidence for a small marshmallow effect. No good evidence that brains contain one mind per hemisphere. At most extremely weak evidence that psychiatric hospitals (of the 1970s) could not detect sane patients in the absence of deception. Questionable evidence for the menstrual cycle version of the dual-mating-strategy hypothesis. No good evidence that humans are cognitively or emotionally limited to 150 relationships with other people (Dunbar’s number).

2022-12-24: Link blog

Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than estimated

The mixture of cold fresh water from the glaciers and warmer seawater drives ocean circulation near the glaciers and farther out in the ocean, meaning the melt has far-reaching implications. The Greenland ice sheet is also important for sea-level rise; Greenland ice holds enough water to raise sea levels by 20 feet (6 meters).

2022-12-02: Link blog

ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue

We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.

Among the sample conversations included are topics like "help me write a short note to introduce myself to my neighbor", "this code is not working like i expect — how do i fix it?", "what is fermat’s little theorem?" and "how to protect my home from burglary".

2022-11-30: Link blog

Mystery Flesh Pit National Park

The Mystery Flesh Pit is an extremely elaborate fantasy worldbuilding exercise created by writer and illustrator Trevor Roberts.

Imagine a Permian Basin-sized eldritch organism hibernating under the soil of Texas just off of Abilene, that will end the world should it ever awake. And instead of having the discovery of such a thing drive America insane in a bout of cosmic horror, we decided to turn it into a National Park Service-operated tourist trap in the vein of the Carlsbad Caverns. So we wired its jaw open, stuck an elevator and a Burger King franchise down its gullet, and sold guided tours and camping trips into the living interior of the beastie. Oh, there's also an all-inclusive resort by its digestive system and an aphrodisiac spa in its amniotic sacs.

The joke, as it were, is this really incongruous mashup of Lovecraftian horror subject matter, but described in the breathlessly enthusiastic tone of a tourist brochure, and all illustrated by Robert's incredibly realistic parody of the NPS's informational panel art.

2022-11-30: Link blog

Feather Stars

 I just learned that these creatures exist.

2022-11-03: Link blog

eDiffi

eDiffi is a new generation of generative AI content creation tool that offers unprecedented text-to-image synthesis with instant style transfer and intuitive painting with words capabilities.