Of all the thousands of fictional stories cinema has been used to tell, would be kind of funny if the first one was about a guy getting sprayed in the face with a hose. This movie is possibly the birth of cinema as a storytelling art and not just a tool for documenting real life

In both versions of the movie, Louis Lumière used his own gardener, François Clerc, to portray the gardener

The famous bootprint photo was a planned soil mechanics experiment suggested by David Carrier of JSC. Buzz chose an undisturbed location and took the photo and was careful not to step on it. (I don't know if the crew was careful to avoid it for the rest of the mission.)

François Truffaut included an homage to L'Arroseur Arrosé in his 1957 short film Les Mistons

[With Echo devices sold at cost] "Alexa was getting a billion interactions a week, but most of those conversations were trivial commands to play music or ask about the weather." Those questions aren't monetizable.

“…for an AI to ‘win’ at Diplomacy it needs to both understand the rules of the game efficiently but also fundamentally understand human interactions, deceptions, and cooperation, and know how to string together sentences without sounding like a malfunctioning dishwasher.” 🤖

+++ Long GQ Magazine profile and deep conversation with James Cameron. Great quotes.

“Grape salad was deemed universally gross, losing 83 percent of its matchups. Sauerkraut was considered a better Thanksgiving dish than grape salad. People hate grape salad about as much as they like mashed potatoes. Think about that.”

“Mr. Coyote seeks compensation for personal injuries, loss of business income, and mental suffering caused as a direct result of the actions and/or gross negligence of said company.” #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/hdNHf4P

Fred Brooks was an innovator in computer design and software engineering, but his wide-ranging career also included research in computer graphics and virtual reality. Read Brooks' NYT obituary below, and his oral history interview here: archive.computerhistory.org/resources/acce…

The hamburger emoji. A philosophic insight.

frozen leaves #photography

I knew Providence was going to light up today but I didn't expect this! My first time photographing the Superman Building lit up in any fashion. It's been worth the wait!

#DougDay #OTD 9-Dec-1968 at Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francinsco, Douglas Engelbart gave is famous and groundbreaking presentation on a research center for augmenting human intellect. hci.social/@mprove/109484…

#TicketToWatch on #DougDay :: The documentary "The Augmentation of Douglas Engelbart" and the Mother of All Demos /via hci.social/@mprove/109485… Frode A. Hegland Greg Lloyd Brendan O'Kane

Just launched the "YouTube Summary with ChatGPT" on Product Hunt 😸 today 🙌 You can quickly access the summary of the YouTube videos you are watching with OpenAI's ChatGPT. Save your time before spending hours, and learn better with AI! producthunt.com/posts/youtube-…

Wow: YouTube summarizer?! Glasp is going to totally change how I relate to my YouTube subscriptions! This is an aaaamazing use of #ChatGPT. Talk about a gap between those of us using tech like this & so many other people in the world though... youtube.com/watch?v=gzGjIV…

Glasp One of the videos was in Spanish, but I asked for a summary in English. No problem.