As one of the most popular dishes in the world, channa masala—chickpeas cooked in a spicy and tangy tomato-based sauce—is the kind of dish that stirs passions.

Go to https://www.digitalartteacher.com/lessons/4-pen-tool for lesson resources (including lesson plans, presentations, project outlines and more!).

This is the 2nd video in a series of 10 tutorials on how to use the pen tool in illustrator CC. We’ll talk about the different options that can be used with the pen tool including how to Add, Delete, or Change Anchor Points.

Here is a link to the practice page used in the video: https://veerle.duoh.com/design/illustrator-pen-tool-exercises

In our Annex space “Exquisite Array: Human, Nature, Object” will run through July 28, 2019. Denise Driscoll’s Gaia series are a gorgeous tangle of intertwining shapes with iridescent highlights and a luminous colored edge that causes the surrounding light to glow! These spectacular little gems are a steal at $300.

In today's GUI Challenge, @AdamArgyleInk builds a wide gamut color palette with okLCH, checking accessible color pairs along the way, inspecting color with devtools, and showing many other neat tricks for leveraging the features of this new web color space.

Resources:
Try a demo → https://goo.gle/3MAx4NC
Get the source → https://goo.gle/3n4Sfcg

Accessibility: 60% difference in lightness

Color & Contrast is a comprehensive guide to color for user interface designers.

A comprehensive guide for exploring and learning about the theory, science, and perception of color and contrast.

Nate Baldwin

_The perdocent exploits the claim of not having been taught how to do something, as a means of not understanding, of taking control, or to avoid doing any actual work.

As a management professional, no matter their appeal to credential, never let a perdocent take control. Always seek to maintain familiarity with the perdocent's tactics…_

Those given the greatest authority in the firm turn out to be the most powerless to effect positive change in the production process. The actual means by which decisions get made in the firm are a rats' nest of bypasses often held up by the force of will in singular individuals.

Many of these individuals (such as staff engineers) also have a crisis of meaningness when and if they realize their vast skills are essentially wasted being a glorified "glue stick" holding together a system which is perverse, and for no real purpose.

https://hbr.org/2019/12/can-you-know-too-much-about-your-organization
If you looked closely, would you see a deliberate strategy or the results of years and years of patches, workarounds, political truces, and shadow systems? They came to see peripheral roles, in which they stood apart from the complex system that required redesign, as a place from which they could add more fundamental and long-term value to the organization.

'Schlep Blindness'
http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
A company is defined by the schleps it will undertake.

'Chesterton's fence' is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.

Work the iron while it’s hot

Just like programming, writing requires a lot of context that you hold in your short term memory. You need to recall a lot of details about the topic you are writing about, as well as your punch-line and the current state of the document. All this state takes time to load into memory, and is easily lost by distractions or context switching.

Start at the Top not the Beginning

For documents that are more than a page long you must take a top-down approach and start with an outline. An outline is a list of sections together with rough notes, often in the form of bullet points.

There is a tremendous amount of spit and polish that goes into making a major website highly usable. A developer, asked how hard something will be to clone, simply does not think about the polish, because the polish is incidental to the implementation.

The Boston-based painter’s large, color-rich paintings begin with what he hears, not with what he sees. He says, “Sight and sound run parallel in our perception, and these works do not intend to confound the two. Rather, the interest is for the viewer to switch back and forth across subjectivity, allowing sound its visual memory. As a word becomes a sound’s visual placeholder, so these paintings become their portrait.”

Norfolk began painting as a teenager and earned a BFA from the College of William and Mary, and received his MFA from Boston University.

A series of mixes intended for listening while ${task} to focus the brain and inspire the mind.

Five questions to look under the hood of the interview

1. How will I fail?
2. How do you incentivise your team?
3. Can you share an example of something the team did that didn’t go well, and what did you do to course correct?
4. What does the shipping look like internall`,
5. How much attention do you pay to reducing friction for the engineering team?

The French Polynesia island of Nuku Hiva is an extraordinary part of the world where a traveler can be as far from the crowds as it's possible to be. It offers an intoxicating mix of deserted beaches, spectacular tropical mountains and traditional local culture.

This is a gentle introduction to how Stable Diffusion works.

People often ask me how to use AI. Here's an overview with lots of links.

• The Six Large Language Models
• Write stuff
• Make Images
• Come up with ideas
• Make videos
• Coding

Yes, there has been much hype over the imagined powers and flaws of the new Large Language Models (e.g., Chat GPT-4), but the recent advances (that is, as of today in April 2023) indicate that ther…

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf

A talk by the lead author, Sebastian Bubeck, at MIT on March 22, 2023: Sparks of AGI: Early experiments with GPT-4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c

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Do these fish even exist? Who cares, look at their outfits. From this French book, where you can find many more. Published 1719.

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84573724/f33.item#

Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.