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Aza Raskin

4 years

While we've been fixated on the point technology overwhelms human strength, we've missed the point when technology undermines human weakness. That's the true 'singularity'.

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Aza Raskin

@aza

3 years

I used to believe that my job as a designer was optimizing for ease of use. That was myopic. It can lead to dire consequences.

MIT CSAIL

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3 years

Born 15 years ago today: the infinite scroll. Then-22-year-old Aza Raskin's innovation was spurred by his frustration with Google's multi-page search results. He now regrets creating the feature and its role in keeping people glued to their phones.

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8 years

Reality is what people collectively believe.

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13 years

Want your CSS rotates and scales to be beautifully antialiased? For webkit, add "box-shadow: 0 0 1px transparent;" and it will be.

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6 years

1. Amazon's revenue drops 1% for every 100ms slower their page loads. 2. To influence elections/manipulate belief, the government just needs to lean on a telco to slow down loading times of dissenting sites. 3. The political implications for ending #NetNeutrality is terrifying.

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2 years

As the person who created it… shows the massive hole in our design philosophy: Optimizing for ease-of-use does not mean best for the user or humanity. UX is locally moral but globally amoral. It asks "how do I make this ergonomic" not "is it ergonomic to our values or society"

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4 years

Garfield minus Garfield is particularly poignant and existential right now.

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9 years

The hardest part of design isn't design, and the hardest part of coding isn't coding. The hardest part is influencing people.

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8 years

The #1 priority for all of us is to stop making products that prey on human cognitive biases to maximize engagement/stock price.

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2 years

Excited to release a collab with singer @zia_cora 🎉! It's a music video for her new single 'Submarines' that I created with the latest research AI. I'm still 🤯 by the AI's lyricism & power. The song is dark and tinged with hope, just like this tech.

Zia Cora - Submarines

'Submarines' was featured at TED 2022. The song is written, performed, and produced by Zia Cora. The music video for 'Submarines' was created by artist Aza...

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Aza Raskin

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6 years

This is what you get when you type "climate change is" into Google. Three of four results say hoax. If you can make something trend, you make it true. Algorithmic recommendations become an autocomplete for the human mind. Google, take responsibility for your tacit endorsements.

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Aza Raskin

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2 years

@proetrie As the person who created it… shows the massive hole in our design philosophy: Optimizing for ease-of-use does not mean best for the user or humanity. UX is locally moral but globally amoral. It asks "how do I make this ergonomic" not "is it ergonomic to our values or society"

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5 years

One of my lessons from infinite scroll: that optimizing something for ease-of-use does not mean best for the user or humanity.

Nishant Chaturvedi 🇮🇳

@nishantchat

5 years

#SocialMediaAddiction The creator of the infinite scrolling feature, Aza Raskin, had a noble intention when he went about designing this feature. According to Raskin, time worth 200,000 human lifetimes is wasted on a daily basis due to our act of infinite scrolling.

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3 years

Facebook is aware that foreign state actors are using the Facebook platform to undermine US interest and @FrancesHaugen believes their consistent understaffing of counter espionage, information, and terrorism teams is a national security issue.

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Aza Raskin

@aza

13 years

The great thing about TCP jokes is that you always get them.

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8 years

As technologists, blame lies in the communication tools we've created. When we can only shout, the best shouter wins.

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6 years

We need to move away from just Human-centered Design to Human-protection Design. From: Have a problem? It’s your responsibility to use it differently. To: It’s our responsibility to design technology in a way that protects people. Google Duplex. Facebook. I'm looking at you.

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5 months

. @TristanHarris and I joined @JoeRogan on his podcast for a dive deep on AI - discussing the immense potential and significant challenges that this technology presents Listen to our conversation: To join the movement and learn more, text "AI" to 55444

#2076 - Aza Raskin & Tristan Harris

Listen to this episode from The Joe Rogan Experience on Spotify. Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin are the co-founders of the Center for Humane Technology and the hosts of its podcast, "Your Undivided...

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4 years

Something very special... Over the last few months, we’ve come together as co-creators, drawn in by the magnetism of a project. Despite myself, I'm very excited. It's an indy/non-profit project that helps people get together in digital space in entirely new fun flexible ways.

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13 years

Google just released hundreds of free, open-source fonts. http://bit.ly/lfGcK3

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7 years

As technologists, we've built the world's largest persuasion smart gun, able to target micro demographics, and let it be rent by anyone.

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7 years

Focusing on wedge issues like gay rights and immigration, paid for from Russia, all with the intent of helping Trump

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11 years

Disney's 12 Rules of Animation. Useful for all UI designers. http://t.co/fVfP2gSrg9

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13 years

British accents are the Helvetica of speaking.

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12 years

A 100% accurate IE6 clone written entirely in HTML5 http://t.co/XCCjyvqt

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9 years

As a leader, the best gift you can give your team is an immaculately articulated problem, then the trust and freedom to solve it.

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11 years

You'll never look at the CBS logo the same way again. http://t.co/e7tTYNvh26

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9 years

Too many startups are about filling our time, instead of making our time fulfilling. Commoditization of attention is to blame.

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12 years

Watch the Richard Feynman lectures on physics. Brilliant and worth the watch, no matter your profession. http://t.co/AfBeVRs5

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12 years

Yes, NASA did just win at time-lapse photography. http://t.co/1R337Wd4

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12 years

Why vector app icons aren't the solution http://t.co/eAZj23rk

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9 years

Always have a side project, so that you can procrastinate productively.

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3 years

"You are a 21st century hero." — @SenMarkey of @FrancesHaugen

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9 years

The war on our attention continues. Today: a major setback for rebel forces. http://t.co/m3S0tU6pHn

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12 years

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

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10 years

Move over, AppleScript. Yosemite introduces Javascript for automation scripting! Finally.

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5 years

“And we need to grow, and grow aggressively” — CEO of 1Password. Why?! Growth at all costs is a San Francisco ideology. We should replace it with humane ideology: bind scale to responsibility. The societal cost of all-costs growth is everything.

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Aza Raskin

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6 years

Proud to announce: Today we launched a new org—led by @tristanharris —to combat the digital addiction crisis. And they way technology manipulates and polarizes us as it crawls down our brainstorm to do whatever it can to mine our attention.

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12 years

Improving the UI of tipping with gameification: http://t.co/YyO3CEcL

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13 years

Design is as much about iterating understanding of the problem as it is the solution. Your first attempt at both will be wrong.

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8 years

Our companies are valued—on Wall Street and Sand Hill—by retention and engagement numbers. This election shows that we get what we value.

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9 years

The last 150 years has seen a profound increase in human free time. Baboon studies give us clues to what that means http://t.co/VXS5zfuPFX

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4 years

Netflix just released the trailer for the film we've been working on with Chasing Ice's @jefforlowski : "The Social Dilemma". The documentary is like the Silent Spring or Inconvenient Truth of technology. Give it a watch!

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13 years

Arduino meet Javascript: http://bit.ly/k28xGh

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4 years

Perfect.

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9 years

As a founder, your job isn’t to make a great product. It’s to build a great team that makes great products. You are who you hire.

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8 years

We've moved from revisionist history to revisionist reality.

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13 years

Collusion: Real-time visualization of who tracks you on the web. You'll be surprised. Beautifully scary. http://bit.ly/oCUhgV

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4 years

📣 COVID19 DESIGN CHALLENGE. Today we're challenging tech to use their global reach to #FlattenTheCurve & save millions of lives. No one else is positioned to leap ahead and reach 3b ppl before the virus can. Over the next 72hrs @HumaneTech_ is hosting a design challenge⬇️🧵

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13 years

Concrete Mathematics, a book that defined my childhood math aspirations, available as PDF http://bit.ly/dZiwcO

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12 years

A beautiful and incredibly clever OpenType font that also makes beautiful graphs.

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4 years

🪁 EXCITING NEWS! 🪁 Three years in the making, the trailer for our new film, "The Social Dilemma" dropped this morning. It pulls back the curtain on how Silicon Valley has been disrupting civilization – from the mental health of kids to democracy to truth. On Netflix, Sept 9

The Social Dilemma

@SocialDilemma_

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We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization. #TheSocialDilemma Only on Netflix, September 9th.

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7 years

Prediction: before we get super-intelligent AI, we will get super-persuasive AI. And that will effectively be humanity's backdoor/rootkit.

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6 years

ViperCard is an open-source re-imagining and re-creation of 1987 HyperCard. Oh the feels! And also: who else has incredible memories of playing Glider?

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4 years

We are guaranteed the right to freedom of speech. We are not guaranteed the right to freedom of reach. We need amplification liability for Internet platforms. Facebook, I'm looking directly at you. Explored by @CaseyNewton here:

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4 years

"Every time you hear 'ethics' you should just replace it in your head with the actual negative impact of what you're doing." Relevant to tech, relevant to this moment. Ethical Transformation panel at the Vatican

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7 years

Filter bubbles are truth bubbles. The rise of social media directly correlates with the rise of polarization, and the fall of shared truth.

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6 years

A huge congrats to the @firefox team. I've been using Firefox Quantum the last couple weeks and it has become my main browser again. Super fast and without ulterior motive. Hello again, old friend.

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@aza

10 years

Google just bought Songza! What a crazy ride for a company I started over two weekends in a Chicago Starbucks http://t.co/eU4KO2tk2l

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4 years

“It's no longer enough for designers to think of one individual using a product. We have to think the fractal version up to technology/society interaction”. From an episode of the Netflix doc series Abstract: The Art of Design with @ianspalter

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4 years

"I see all the pictures that people like to project about themselves on social media. And I know it’s all a lie. Most people are lying about their lives. Pretending to have it together. Pretending to be more successful and popular than they are." — GPT3

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5 years

Boarding the plane with an accelerated step and heart beat. SF > Instanbul > Nairobi > Bangui (Central African Republic) > Bayanga > Dzanga Bai (the Congo). Heading there with Cornell researchers for an expedition to study elephant communication. 🐘🐘🐘 Childhood dream. ✅

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13 years

JSlim is a static JS analyzer which removes the parts of your favorite JS library you aren't using. http://t.co/dEF6efr

GitHub - zgrossbart/jslim: It's your favorite JavaScript library, only faster

It's your favorite JavaScript library, only faster - zgrossbart/jslim

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6 years

Congress keeps asking the wrong questions of Zuckerberg. Facebook doesn't sell your data—that would be against their business interest. They make $40b a year selling the ability to influence and target you.

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12 years

Very cool typography effects with CSS3 and jQuery. http://t.co/Pn1f2VfI

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13 years

Going to https://oo.apple.com on your iOS device opts you out of behavioral tracking.

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A cute JS library for doing blurred-glass backgrounds. http://t.co/WYiNCcq4

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4 years

@patrickc We are with MakeSpace. Cc @jasonyuandesign @mayli

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13 years

My father's final gift. Six years ago today, he gave me the last birthday present he ever would. http://bit.ly/dRcgbI

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5 years

In this 1979 Apple memo from the Macintosh, I think my father... trolled Jobs.

Bjørn E. Hesthamar

@hesthamar

5 years

Den 2/10 1979 skrev Jef Raskin på Apple följande:

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6 years

Cameras, at the hardware level, need to start signing their content and putting proof of authorship in a block chain. Make it verifiable that a video or picture was taken, not generated or modified.

Alex J. Champandard 🌱

@alexjc

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People often say that porn pushes the limits of any technology, but when it happens in your field it feels very uncomfortable... Face swapping in adult videos with adversarial deep learning:

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14 years

How to write a GameBoy emulator in Javascript. A tutorial: http://bit.ly/9wIFVA

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4 years

“64% of all extremist group joins are due to our [Facebook's] recommendation tools” “Our recommendation systems grow the problem.” Internal presentation to exec team at Facebook. Solutions were nixed or weakened.

Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive

The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users and how it might address the resulting harms, then largely shelved the research.

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12 years

Mobile design patterns for Android. http://t.co/Md9SKgTj /via @at_underscore

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13 years

The anatomy of a computer virus. http://bit.ly/mj11Sa

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12 years

Store a 30-character password in your brain's subconscious memory so that your conscious is unaware. Very clever. http://t.co/Ty1yMR9O

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9 years

As a maker becoming a founder, you'll fail unless you give up the joy of making, and change it to the joy of supporting others making.

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14 years

So You Want To Be a Designer? Top 5 list of what you need to know. New blog post: http://bit.ly/b3un88

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10 years

Prediction: In a decade, only the affluent will be able to afford to be disconnected. The iWatch et al will start sexy and end as a shackle.

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12 years

The role of a founder isn't to build a great product. It's to build a great team that builds fantastic products.

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13 years

Five low-hanging UX tips http://bit.ly/p790HO

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11 years

Get feedback on your designs often. Ignore their solutions, listen to their problems.

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9 years

When you create a prototype, it's chief purpose is to convince. First it must convinces you, then others, of what is worth making.

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6 years

That Facebook employees don’t find it morally wrong to take full call history w/o clear disclosure is indicative. Their defense is pretty much: well, you let me into your house, so why are you mad that I dug through your trash and closets for personal stuff?

Tom Warren

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A Facebook software engineer just emailed me. It's clear even Facebook employees don't understand why people are surprised the company even needs to collect call history and SMS data (mobile friendly version of tweet)

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8 years

How technology hijacks people’s minds: Very happy to see @tristanharris ideas getting out there. Deeply important.

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13 years

I'm leaving Mozilla and founding a new company called Massive Health. http://bit.ly/hbje8P

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12 years

Specular highlights with CSS. Hot. http://t.co/jhkNOcGi

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Icon fonts are awesome. http://t.co/UFksMkfC

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7 years

Hafez is an RNN that writes poems. Here’s its sonnet on Bipolar Disorder. And Death.

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Gallery of mobile design patterns. http://t.co/mPdtvspv

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12 years

On iPhone, dialing *3001 #12345 #*, holding the power button, then holding home, replaces the bars with a more accurate reception meter.

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12 years

Color wheels are wrong: How color vision actually works. http://t.co/Jwhq0GMB

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13 years

A fantastically well-done landing page. I want to lick this website. http://t.co/WsKiT8iP

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13 years

Constraints create creativity. It's not about thinking outside the box; it's about finding the right box to think in.

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12 years

Chosen is a JS library that makes select boxes much more humane. http://t.co/1rg65z7b

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14 years

Inception timeline as an infographic: http://bit.ly/aewfOd /via @t

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13 years

A zooming user interface (ZUI) library for HTML5. http://bit.ly/n9R9UJ

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4 years

“The greatest trick technology companies ever played was persuading society to surveil itself.” We need new duty of care/fiduciary laws to protect us individual humans from the accelerating asymmetry of our god-like technological powers.

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12 years

Face detection for cats in Javascript. Best Javascript library ever.

GitHub - harthur/kittydar: Face detection for cats in JavaScript - demo for TXJS 2012 talk

Face detection for cats in JavaScript - demo for TXJS 2012 talk - harthur/kittydar

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I made the video in less than 48 hours. One of the 🤯 things is that the video was made just by describing the sequence of scenes I wanted and in what style.