Jasmine Otto
@jatazak.bsky.social
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Critical visualization researcher. On the job market. Send more ontologies. PhD Computational Media, UC Santa Cruz. https://jazztap.github.io/
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jatazak.bsky.social
Welcome y'all. I'm Jasmine Otto, a visualization researcher who makes bespoke intelligent interfaces for creative collaborations. I'm interested in rituals of simulation, modelling, and decision-making in complex sociotechnical organizations.
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vgel.me
if you're interesting in gaining a better intuition for how llms behave at inference time, you should try logitloom🌱, the open-source tool i made for exploring token trajectory trees (aka looming) on base and instruct models! more info in thread

🌱 vgel.me/logitloom
💻 github.com/vgel/logitloom
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mariov.ch
I did some final testing at the REFRESH festival (refresh.zhdk.ch/refresh-6/ex...) this weekend. Of course I found a new bug IMMEDIATELY... get the BUG FREE* version soon!

*maybe
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torstenvolk.bsky.social
Why AI co-pilots will never become actual 'pilots' as long as they are based on LLMs. That's not a bad thing, as the production gain can be large. But just like an actor playing a doctor on TV is not really a doctor, a copilot using an llm is not a programmer.

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AI agents are accelerators, not developer replacements | TechTarget
Learn how AI agents automate tasks like code generation, testing and documentation, but still require oversight for complex decision-making.
www.techtarget.com
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lazerwalker.com
So if you visualize LLMs as not "artificial consciousness" but "an artificial connection to the collective unconscious":

1. They become philosophically way more interesting
2. It's way more forgivable they suck at math
3. It becomes extremely clear they are infinitely less useful to capitalism
lazerwalker.com
A thing I am starting to embody in my extremely weird healing journey, and that a lot of AI people don’t seem to get, is that consciousness is *by far* the least interesting or impressive part of human intelligence
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larkworthy.bsky.social
wow I spent a fuckton of time writing a compiler/decompiler for Observable 1.0 and now it is ISC licensed in Notebook Kit and it does Typescript and Notebook 2.0 syntax and everything! This is amazing.
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jatazak.bsky.social
confirm that my high school interns got real value from exposure to Fourier transforms. many other labs gave presentations containing social proof of its utility

weird mirrors and other video feedback projects (e.g. p5js) are wildly charismatic! but I didn't get as much response for phase portraits
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apepers.bsky.social
This was my first topic to bring to Polaris and I was so pleased with the results! A quick run through the framework is so helpful when you’re getting a bit lost in the weeds on communicating complicated systems. The cherry on top is the appendix sharing real examples from super talented folks 👀
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tonofcrates.bsky.social
for professional software dev we're starting to have some data though (which sourced my 25% estimate):
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
metr.org/blog/2025-07...

i would believe that AI could make you ~5x faster at ramping up with a tool (prog lang, low-code system, etc.) but not w/ expert use
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opinionhaver.bsky.social
like the 'replication crisis' is a product of improving scientific rigor and training, of science *improving* overall. and it's used to attack the entire enterprise. it would have been better from the public relations perspective of academia to leave bullshit papers unchallenged.
jatazak.bsky.social
Try the skypack bundle of Tracery's npm package? The jQuery dep should be baked in.
cdn.skypack.dev/tracery-gram...
If you do end up trying the array fingerprinting shim for 'draw without replacement', I'd certainly like to get hold of that.
cdn.skypack.dev
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joshuahhh.com
12 exciting live-programming projects will be presented at LIVE this year. It's free, online, and coming up soon!

Sat 9/27: Videos premiere
Sat 10/4: Q & A and discussion over Zoom

Details on projects are up already at liveprog.org; more schedule & links coming soon.

Hope to see ya there!
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hoosfoos.bsky.social
Presented my paper The Shadow of the Machine (speculations about AI and the future of hypertext) at the NHT workshop at the hypertext conference. You can find the paper and video presentation on my blog: davidmillard.org/2025/09/17/t... #ht25 #nht25
The Shadow of the Machine
I have been attending the ACM Hypertext 2025 conference in Chicago, part of which was the Narrative and Hypertext workshop which I run with Charlie Hargood from Bournemouth University. This year we…
davidmillard.org
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tdneale.bsky.social
In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...
jatazak.bsky.social
fraud is a victimless crime if you don't believe in institutions
jatazak.bsky.social
Excited to talk systems thinking across disciplines with the Dynamic Abstractions group this Fri. Ever wondered why obvious insights from hands-on prototyping are news to other experts, reviewers, & decision-makers? Join us over Zoom on Sep 19th at 9am PT / 12noon ET: dynamicabstractions.github.io
A ‘transit network’ map of knowledge transfer in complex organizations. Each station represents a stakeholder group. Each line represents a single vertical, pipeline, or other system along which visualization artifacts (and other data products) may flow, acting as vehicles for organizational knowledge. In this example, the Relay, Robotics, and Science Mission groups each include various domain experts and decision-makers; the HCI vertical includes both visualization practitioners (Design and Visualization) and their close-collaborator domain experts (Staffing and Allocation).
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laurenfklein.bsky.social
A few days ago, amidst everything else, I pressed send on the book I've been working on (and off) for over a decade. It's still a long way from finished, but the final phase has begun. Watch for DATA BY DESIGN: FROM THE HISTORY OF VISUALIZATION TO THE FUTURE WE NEED in print and online in Fall 2026!
A screenshot of the table of contents, reading: 

Preface

Introduction: A History of Visualization and Power

Chapter 1
Data: The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Responsible Visualization Design
Before there are data, there are people. How can the lives behind the data guide our visualization work?

Chapter 2
Image: William Playfair and the Politics of the “Simple View”
Visualization has never been neutral or objective. How can we learn to recognize the human decisions that shape each design? 

Chapter 3
People: Shanawdithit and our Place in the Colonial Frame
Maps, like all visualizations, tell stories. How can we learn to see the lines of power that they draw? 

Chapter 4
Knowledge: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and the Idea of Epistemology 
Visualization can produce knowledge in many ways. What ideas do we gain when we expand our view of the past?

Chapter 5
Change: Lula Iola Mack, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Path to Liberatory Data Visualization 
Visualization can bear powerful witness to oppression. How can we use charts to make change in the world? 

Chapter 6
Labor: Data by Design and What We Learn from Visualization Work
By Margy Adams and Tanvi Sharma, with Shiyao Li, Jay Varner, and Lauren Klein 
Any visualization project is the work of many hands. How can we surface the significance of this labor?

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Notes
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aphid.org
aphid @aphid.org · 29d
Super excited to be part of this, and to collab with @drs.bsky.social
anindexof.bsky.social
Indexical is pleased to announce the selection of four Santa Cruz-based artists for it’s residency program throughout our 2025-26 Season: MIMIXOMI, Thadeus Frazier-Reed, Abram Stern, and Rip Florence.

Read the announcement here: www.indexical.org/posts/announ...
jatazak.bsky.social
I'm hearing all the best things about Alien Clay hahaha
jatazak.bsky.social
from 2024 paper via deepmind.google/discover/blo...
> General-purpose formal languages such as Lean still require a large amount of groundwork to describe most IMO geometry problems at present. [...] we instead adopted a more specialized language used in GEX10, JGEX17, MMP/Geometer13 and GeoLogic19
Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations - Nature
A new neuro-symbolic theorem prover for Euclidean plane geometry trained from scratch on millions of synthesized theorems and proofs outperforms the previous best method and reaches the performance of...
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jatazak.bsky.social
Clearly the search space of AlphaGeometry (last year's system) is very large. A great depth of domain knowledge has been brought into the formal language by many large collaborations (e.g. Lean). I assume DeepMind builds on it implicitly (synthetic data?).
leanprover-community.github.io
Lean community
leanprover-community.github.io