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The mid-month weird news, with some good medieval and science mysteries, plus the latest AI tooling news and programming tips, games links of interest, and more!

TITAA #75.5: Goblin Agents Dig Tunnels

Erdstall tunnels - Kling 3 - Tiny humans - AI Romances - Testing AI Code - Gostak Game & Jabberwockian

Lynn Cherny

Feb 15

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Illustration for George McDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin, site

Happy weekend… I’ve been working on this (at home and in bar lobbies) and playing an old Switch game; I hope you all got outside, weather depending.

Sections (will be links on site):

AI Creativity (Video, 3d, Audio Models of Interest)
Web Misc Fun
Games
Narrative & Creativity (new benchmark)
Weird News (Art, Archaeology & Folklore —bangers, Science, AI & LLM)
Data Science / Infovis / LLM Models / Programming Help
Poem

Lots in here today with a solid weirdness section: 👉 Kling 3.0 + prompting guide 👉 Plant assets from splats 👉 Dwarf Fortress spontaneous combustion 👉 HuggingFace + OpenAI skills repos 👉 Babylon 5 free on YouTube 👉 ACE-Step music gen 👉 World Labs mesh export official 👉 Hunyuan 3d 3.1 finally, it’s amazing! 👉 AI romance novels in the NYT 👉 A new creative writing style benchmark 👉 Unexplained medieval tunnels and Pictish Beasts 👉 A “structure” under Lake Michigan and underwater French cities 👉 Hallucination mushrooms provide tiny people 👉 Michelangelo at 12 👉 Lots of little web games 👉 71 min of X-Files rental cars 👉 Claude’s constitution and dreaming degenerate LLMs 👉 More OCR models and AI programming guiderules 👉 Good looking embedding tools/libs…...

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