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@bowerbird.bsky.social

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anti-hype. i paint and do computer vision research for satellite image datasets https://zhanpeifang.com/

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · Apr 28

brave new pastures

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 1d

stanford bunny

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 1d

some of my recent oil paintings, which you can look at on my freshly updated portfolio website:

zhanpeifang.com

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 19d

sorry to all my haters and losers

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 21d

i booked a work flight to leave 12:40am from pdx next week, which i plan to drive to immediately after the autechre set ends earlier that night.. diva behavior i fear

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · Sep 15

just ate a shockingly competent bowl of 螺蛳粉 in Kampala, Uganda

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · Sep 13

w6$$up peasants, I finally got off the Rancho Gordo Bean Club waitlist

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · Aug 18

one of my worst housemates in college (had the most blatant case of yellow fever/weaponized male meekness ive seen) left his phd to work here lol. i will say there was something cathartic about my old coop nemesis (in a group photo of xAI employees) being called ‘evil’ on a QT with >200k likes🤭

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · Aug 17

virgin tikz vs chad whatever this is

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · Aug 4

going to be in nyc from 8/24-27 and 9/18-28ish, for those who'd like to drop by👋

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · Aug 2

figs from the tree in my housing co-op’s garden

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · Aug 1

I'm going to sub-Saharan Africa in a month for fieldwork lol

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · Aug 1

in the past 7 days i’ve taken vaccines for: rabies (2 shots), meningococcal ACWY, yellow fever and cholera (last 2 are live virus). basically, what i’m saying is that i’m currently a walking gu jar

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · Jul 23

i see that purity ring are also cashing in on the 'low-poly rpg video game y2k nostalgia' trend

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · Jun 29

weirdly sophistiqué chart this week

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · Jun 3

which volume(s)?

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dense scrub 𓅰 @waxwing.bsky.social · Jun 1

Scientific diagram of two birds looking at seeds from different directions, showing their blind spots and extent of binocular vision.

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · May 30

RIP Landsat Next, we hardly knew ye

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · May 29

is it just me or is it that contemporary painting is extremely boring right now lol. last show that left an impression on me was dana lok at miguel abreu around the new year

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · May 29

is it good that i feel like i'm slowly dying while i've been debugging code for months and while i'm not painting lol. thank god it's almost summer

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · May 29

thinking about getting into baking panettone purely as a flex

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · May 18

just described the deutscher memorial prize to bf as 'the Fields Medal of Marxism'

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · May 18

but of course

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · May 17

i watched the handmaiden and was kind of surprised at how girlbossy/feel-good it was?

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · May 14

just discovered some very impressive tikz gore franknielsen.github.io/Divergence/P...

excerpt from Frank Nielsen's poster for "Taxonomy of principal distances and divergences", seemingly written with pure uncut PGF/TikZ

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🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · May 9

TJ Clark’s recent essays.. god bless, not all of us are given the privilege of doing our boomer rambling in the London Review of Books