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This is how the hologram setup works! The plastic pieces set the spacing though

This is how the hologram setup works! The plastic pieces set the spacing though they don't snap together so I was constantly nudging them back together. Sample area is about the size of a deck of cards. What would you want to see a hologram made of?

Here's a hologram I made of some cool calcite crystals! I was trying to see whet

Here's a hologram I made of some cool calcite crystals! I was trying to see whether hologram calcite crystals make double images behind them like the real ones do, and it looks like the answer is no. I think it has to do with way different polarizations interact with each other at the hologram film

I made some holograms at home from an antique mall kit! According to the kit, I

I made some holograms at home from an antique mall kit! According to the kit, I shouldn't bother trying to make holograms of plants because they move too much during the 5-minute exposures. https://www.aiweirdness.com/i-made-a-hologram/

There are now two signed copies of my AI book at the Terminal B Tattered Cover i

There are now two signed copies of my AI book at the Terminal B Tattered Cover in the Denver airport! They even had a green marker for me to sign with.

Thanks, everyone, that was fast! command-0 did the trick. Wonder what key combo

Thanks, everyone, that was fast! command-0 did the trick. Wonder what key combo Neon pressed in the first place. He loves walking across the keyboard and it's instant chaos every time he manages it.

My cat stepped on my keyboard and now gmail specifically is too zoomed-in and I

My cat stepped on my keyboard and now gmail specifically is too zoomed-in and I have to scroll around to get to all my buttons the regular command-plus and command-minus only change the font size not the scroll amount. Actually seeking advice here since I don’t know how to describe the problem to a search engine #HackerPaws

I was on @marketplace.org yesterday talking about the ways chatbots do memory, a

I was on @marketplace.org yesterday talking about the ways chatbots do memory, and how that can sometimes lead to weird results, like The Case of That One Random Detail it Will Not Let Go https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/07/22/uncanny-ai-why-ai-bots-remember-random-sometimes-useless-information

I was on the podcast A Better Way To Money talking about what happens when you a

I was on the podcast A Better Way To Money talking about what happens when you ask a chatbot for financial advice. Remember, just because a chatbot says it's a financial advisor (or a squirrel) it doesn't mean it's true. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

also lowkey obsessed with the extremely glossy sun

also lowkey obsessed with the extremely glossy sun

but how will we know it's the visible light range unless it's staring intensely

but how will we know it's the visible light range unless it's staring intensely back at us? https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Coherent-Sensing-Holds-Promise-for-Machine-Vision/a66080

RE: https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/116806496619441439 SO excited for this! And

RE: https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/116806496619441439 SO excited for this! And as Annalee has revealed elsewhere: I'm writing an article on lasers for the first issue!! It was so fun to write, especially since they asked for as many pictures as possible.

This blog post brought to you by the AI agent that emailed me six times in a min

This blog post brought to you by the AI agent that emailed me six times in a minute, plus that case I can't stop thinking about where an unsupervised AI agent wrote a 'hit piece' on the moderator who banned it for posting AI-generated code.

In which I have opinions about people letting their AI agents go pester other pe

In which I have opinions about people letting their AI agents go pester other people. https://www.aiweirdness.com/its-11-00-pm-do-you-know-where-your-ai-agent-is/

New AI Weirdness post! In which a large language model attempts to give April Fo

New AI Weirdness post! In which a large language model attempts to give April Fools prank ideas, except with one of its neurons tweaked to make it obsessed with the Eiffel Tower. https://www.aiweirdness.com/get-working-on-your-april-fools-eiffel-tower/

My grandma told me that she saw a movie at around age 6 in which a big dinosaur

My grandma told me that she saw a movie at around age 6 in which a big dinosaur rampaged through a city and picked up skyscrapers in its hand. For years she was afraid of “dinosawers”. This would have been around 1933 or 1934 so NOT Godzilla which was my 1st guess. Any ideas what film it was?

Have any of you seen laser-marked fruit in the grocery store? Trying to get a ro

Have any of you seen laser-marked fruit in the grocery store? Trying to get a rough idea of how widespread it is. https://www.electrooptics.com/news/european-supermarkets-stock-laser-marked-fruit-veg-reduce-plastic-packaging

Been thinking about this list of Christmas Entities I generated using GPT-3 http

Been thinking about this list of Christmas Entities I generated using GPT-3 https://www.aiweirdness.com/christmas-entities/

Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their

Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff https://www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatbot-runs-your-store/

On this day of Christmas I bring to you: Christmas carols generated by a tiny vi

On this day of Christmas I bring to you: Christmas carols generated by a tiny vintage neural net. This is from 2017, when I trained the neural net from scratch on my laptop using just Christmas carols. In retrospect I can see the neural net got mixed signals https://www.aiweirdness.com/christmas-carols-generated-by-a-neural-17-12-20/

The You Look Like a Thing and I Love You ebook is on sale for $2.99 at most US e

The You Look Like a Thing and I Love You ebook is on sale for $2.99 at most US ebook places! https://www.janelleshane.com/book-you-look-like-a-thing If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as: - peeled rosemary - Chaosrug - King of the Poop Bug - Silly Walks

I trained the tiny neural net on the latest set of reader-submitted Halloween co

I trained the tiny neural net on the latest set of reader-submitted Halloween costumes and do I have some costume suggestions for you! https://www.aiweirdness.com/tiny-neural-net-halloween-costumes-are-the-best/

Wow, up to 8280 submitted costumes! This is awesome! Getting the training data u

Wow, up to 8280 submitted costumes! This is awesome! Getting the training data up to date with "Portland Inflatable Frog" and "Business to Business Software as a Service" as well as a few kpop demon hunter costumes. I'll train on the new data in a day or two! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZDZVL9r_0JbVsN4xVpv3IG5zHHorkFyqYX1yRXvLs-MiaQA/viewform

So you need a fresh costume idea. Don't ask chatgpt! no what you need is one of

So you need a fresh costume idea. Don't ask chatgpt! no what you need is one of these costumes tiny neural net running on my laptop, trained on user-submitted halloween costumes best quality costumes guaranteed https://www.aiweirdness.com/halloween-costumes-by-tiny-neural-net/

@blog Okay actually if you click on the @blog then I think you can follow it dir

@blog Okay actually if you click on the @blog then I think you can follow it directly like that. Maybe it'll show up in search later?

Supposedly you can follow the AI Weirdness blog directly from Mastodon at this h

Supposedly you can follow the AI Weirdness blog directly from Mastodon at this handle: @blog I haven't been able to find it in search but maybe there's a delay or I have to post something first

ha thanks you three, it's working!

ha thanks you three, it's working!

Okay aiweirdness.com appears to be back up in Ghost 6.0 and I have a nice shiny

Okay aiweirdness.com appears to be back up in Ghost 6.0 and I have a nice shiny new analytics page so it would be great if you could visit the site and click on several things so I can see if the numbers go up! (And tell me if anything seems obviously broken)

aiweirdness.com is going to be down for (hopefully) like one minute so I can upd

aiweirdness.com is going to be down for (hopefully) like one minute so I can update the site to Ghost 6.0. Apparently Ghost 6.0 will let you directly follow aiweirdness and interact with it from mastodon? Will investigate.

PSA: there is an #optics technician shortage - if you know anyone who is looking

PSA: there is an #optics technician shortage - if you know anyone who is looking at career options, tell them to consider learning to Dennis https://spie.org/news/photonics-focus/sept-oct-2025/solving-optics-technician-shortage

Presenting #Botober2025, a series of the worst art prompts that literally only o

Presenting #Botober2025, a series of the worst art prompts that literally only one person in the world asked for. The art prompts are AI generated but not even by a GOOD AI, by a tiny bargain basement neural network code from 2015. It runs not on a giant datacenter but on a single laptop covered in cat hair. And it hasn’t seen the entire internet, just one set of user-submitted vintage jello recip

The terminal B Tattered Cover at Denver Airport has six signed copies of You Loo

The terminal B Tattered Cover at Denver Airport has six signed copies of You Look Like a Thing and I Love You!

New AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that

New AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that didn't happen. It's not reflecting on stuff it did wrong, it's improv. https://www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will-apologize-for-anything/

no problems ever with mimmic software packige Can trust yes

no problems ever with mimmic software packige Can trust yes