I'm sharing a collection of artistic posters and backgrounds from Art Lebedev Studio that use bar-code motifs as a central design element. These creative interpretations turn industrial symbols into minimalist, aesthetically pleasing desktop wallpapers.
A brief tutorial announcement shows how a Harry Potter screen-time bar chart race was built in PowerPoint, proving again that the tool is stranger and more capable than people assume.
I built a way to recreate Hans Rosling’s animated motion charts in Excel. By linking a scroll bar to a VLOOKUP table, you can dynamically update bubble chart data to create interactive animations that work offline during presentations.
A live 10-minute LLM-only coding challenge reveals that only a small minority adopt these tools early, but the best among them already produce surprisingly deployable apps.
I share my strategies for better LLM usage, focusing on voice interaction and 'impossibility lists.' I also cover Luis Alvarez’s diverse scientific discoveries, compare AI coding assistants, and break down common patterns found in system prompts.
LLM-based evaluation becomes more defensible when framed as a game of convincing the grader, broken into granular binary checks, and hardened with re-evaluation against prompt hacking.