2026 1

A Mobile Voice Choir

I’ve been playing around with mobile sensors recently and one such experiment is the voice choir. Here’s how it works. I’m the presenter. I visit voice choir, create a room, and show the QR code. People see the QR code (via screen-sharing or projector) and open on their mobile phones to join my room. I press “Start”. They hear a tone and they should hum at the same pitch. They can see if their pitch is above or below and adjust. I get a data stream of their pitch. Over time, we see if we can hum at the same pitch, or how close we converge. I record this as a visualization. We played this in Straive across about 20 people who joined the room. Here’s the video: ...

2025 1

LLMs think alike about how aliens draw

While LLMs seem good at inventing alien languages, they’re not so good at inventing alien drawing forms, in my opinion. When I told Grok, DeepSeek, and Gemini: Invent a new, alien drawing form. Use it to draw something never seen before by explaining it step by step for a person to reproduce that drawing. … and asked ChatGPT ImageGen to draw them, here are the results: ...

2004 1

Card trick

Interesting card trick using the Kruskal Count.

2001 1

mobile plus palm

Prototype of the future. A mobile + palm.

2000 1

Net calls are legal

Phone calls through the Net are legal. This is based on the GOT-IT report.