David Koelle
@dmkoelle.bsky.social
Benevolent AI, Collaborative Autonomy, ALife, Social Systems. Software engineering leadership. JFugue (music API). Word puzzles. Believer in building people up.
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ALIFE 2025's proceedings are officially published (open-access) on the MIT Press's website!
direct.mit.edu/isal/isal202...
direct.mit.edu/isal/isal202...
Volumes | ALIFE 2022: The 2022 Conference on Artificial Life | MIT Press
ALIFE 2025: Ciphers of Life: Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2025 | October 2025 | Kyoto, Japan
direct.mit.edu
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
ALIFE 2025's proceedings are officially published (open-access) on the MIT Press's website!
direct.mit.edu/isal/isal202...
direct.mit.edu/isal/isal202...
Reposted by David Koelle
Hi I'm Lara, an italian illustrator and concept artist ❤︎ I'm new here and I would love to share with you some of my works!✨
August 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hi I'm Lara, an italian illustrator and concept artist ❤︎ I'm new here and I would love to share with you some of my works!✨
@naztronomy.com Thanks for letting me see the moon through your telescope at last night’s Astronomy Night!
August 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
@naztronomy.com Thanks for letting me see the moon through your telescope at last night’s Astronomy Night!
Reposted by David Koelle
Multi-agent systems — ON MARS!
Joint Skyfall mission proposal by AeroVironment and JPL.
Joint Skyfall mission proposal by AeroVironment and JPL.
Jaw-Dropping Video Shows NASA’s Plan to Deliver a Helicopter Swarm to Mars Without Landing
The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.
gizmodo.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Multi-agent systems — ON MARS!
Joint Skyfall mission proposal by AeroVironment and JPL.
Joint Skyfall mission proposal by AeroVironment and JPL.
Reposted by David Koelle
This is absurd.
The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image.
But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.
The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image.
But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.
July 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is absurd.
The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image.
But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.
The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image.
But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.
Unscientific data, but...
- Made the same post on X and Bsky asking about an obscure System Dynamics book.
X (887 followers): 25 views, 0 likes, 0 comments
Bsky (93 followers): ? views but 2 awesome and relevant new followers who I also followed back, and several useful comments
- Made the same post on X and Bsky asking about an obscure System Dynamics book.
X (887 followers): 25 views, 0 likes, 0 comments
Bsky (93 followers): ? views but 2 awesome and relevant new followers who I also followed back, and several useful comments
June 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Unscientific data, but...
- Made the same post on X and Bsky asking about an obscure System Dynamics book.
X (887 followers): 25 views, 0 likes, 0 comments
Bsky (93 followers): ? views but 2 awesome and relevant new followers who I also followed back, and several useful comments
- Made the same post on X and Bsky asking about an obscure System Dynamics book.
X (887 followers): 25 views, 0 likes, 0 comments
Bsky (93 followers): ? views but 2 awesome and relevant new followers who I also followed back, and several useful comments
To my Systems Thinking people: Have you ever come across the book, "Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail"? Is it worth reading? Has it ever been in reprint since 1977?
June 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
To my Systems Thinking people: Have you ever come across the book, "Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail"? Is it worth reading? Has it ever been in reprint since 1977?
Reposted by David Koelle
New paper: "Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell).
We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135
We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135
arxiv.org
June 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
New paper: "Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell).
We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135
We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135
Reposted by David Koelle
Everyone who makes innovative hardware or software to work with #midi is invited to submit their projects/products (both commercial and non-) to the 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards: midi.org/innovation-awards
This year we introduce a new award category for best MIDI 2.0 project!
This year we introduce a new award category for best MIDI 2.0 project!
Innovation Awards
The 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards are now open What are the midi innovation awards? The MIDI Innovation Awards, established in 2021, celebrate groundbreaking advancements in MIDI technology. Organized ...
midi.org
April 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Everyone who makes innovative hardware or software to work with #midi is invited to submit their projects/products (both commercial and non-) to the 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards: midi.org/innovation-awards
This year we introduce a new award category for best MIDI 2.0 project!
This year we introduce a new award category for best MIDI 2.0 project!
@greyoctagon.bsky.social
Hello! I saw your post on Facebook (I visit from time to time but don't actually post there anymore) - congrats on your professional shift! And as you do the NYT crossword daily, someday you may see MY name in a byline!
Hello! I saw your post on Facebook (I visit from time to time but don't actually post there anymore) - congrats on your professional shift! And as you do the NYT crossword daily, someday you may see MY name in a byline!
April 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
@greyoctagon.bsky.social
Hello! I saw your post on Facebook (I visit from time to time but don't actually post there anymore) - congrats on your professional shift! And as you do the NYT crossword daily, someday you may see MY name in a byline!
Hello! I saw your post on Facebook (I visit from time to time but don't actually post there anymore) - congrats on your professional shift! And as you do the NYT crossword daily, someday you may see MY name in a byline!
Lego nails it with this vintage-style ad for the new 75409 Jango Fett's Starship youtube.com/shorts/f-vAK...
"Flying with the Fetts" LEGO UCS Jango Fett's Firespray-Class Starship (75409) Promo
YouTube video by Boba Fett Fan Club
youtube.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Lego nails it with this vintage-style ad for the new 75409 Jango Fett's Starship youtube.com/shorts/f-vAK...
I'd like to file a change request to change the Teams boop-boop audio alert that a meeting has started to a "Law and Order"-style DUN DUN!
April 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I'd like to file a change request to change the Teams boop-boop audio alert that a meeting has started to a "Law and Order"-style DUN DUN!
It’s a shame—truly, it is—that so many never learned the elegance of the em dash.
April 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It’s a shame—truly, it is—that so many never learned the elegance of the em dash.
#nytxw You don’t see a particular high-IQ society in the puzzle for years and then suddenly it’s there two days in a row. How does that happen?! The funny side of probability and statistics.
April 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
#nytxw You don’t see a particular high-IQ society in the puzzle for years and then suddenly it’s there two days in a row. How does that happen?! The funny side of probability and statistics.
I feel the need to introduce the magic of @djcummerbund.bsky.social to those who don't know. This is amazing in so many ways. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=McOt...
DJ Cummerbund - DragulAPT.
YouTube video by DJ Cummerbund
www.youtube.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I feel the need to introduce the magic of @djcummerbund.bsky.social to those who don't know. This is amazing in so many ways. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=McOt...
@irishali13.bsky.social Thank you for spreading art and poetry, and for making this place happier and more beautiful!
April 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
@irishali13.bsky.social Thank you for spreading art and poetry, and for making this place happier and more beautiful!
OK Go's single-take music videos are always amazing. This new video, for their song "Love" off their new album, is just as amazing as everything else they've created. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz9B...
OK Go - Love (Official Video)
YouTube video by OK Go
www.youtube.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
OK Go's single-take music videos are always amazing. This new video, for their song "Love" off their new album, is just as amazing as everything else they've created. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz9B...
In what ways have you seen people who extensively use LLMs change their interactions with others in online and IRL situations? Better concepts? Easier ability to express ideas? Updated ways of speaking? Or, no noticeable effects at all?
April 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
In what ways have you seen people who extensively use LLMs change their interactions with others in online and IRL situations? Better concepts? Easier ability to express ideas? Updated ways of speaking? Or, no noticeable effects at all?
Raise your hand if you letter NYT Spelling Bee words that you know aren’t real words, but they’re fun or funny and you just enter them anyway. Looking at you, TOMOTO and ROOPY.
April 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Raise your hand if you letter NYT Spelling Bee words that you know aren’t real words, but they’re fun or funny and you just enter them anyway. Looking at you, TOMOTO and ROOPY.
@teevoz.bsky.social Hi! Thank you for finding me on Blue Sky, and welcome!
April 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
@teevoz.bsky.social Hi! Thank you for finding me on Blue Sky, and welcome!
MICROGENRE: Morning chill house music mixed by a simply-dressed 20s-30s adult occasionally sipping on coffee in their tan-toned apartment with a window to their right.
Exhibit 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-seP...
Exhibit 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGDM...
Exhibit 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd0f...
Exhibit 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-seP...
Exhibit 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGDM...
Exhibit 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd0f...
CHILL MORNING DEEP HOUSE MIX | LILICAY
YouTube video by LILICAY
www.youtube.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
MICROGENRE: Morning chill house music mixed by a simply-dressed 20s-30s adult occasionally sipping on coffee in their tan-toned apartment with a window to their right.
Exhibit 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-seP...
Exhibit 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGDM...
Exhibit 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd0f...
Exhibit 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-seP...
Exhibit 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGDM...
Exhibit 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd0f...
Let’s say there’s a US company that sells subscriptions to access their software or media, and people in other countries are buying it. Are those sales included in determining trade deficits? Would they be subjected to tariffs? Or are tariffs exclusively on physical products that are shipped?
April 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Let’s say there’s a US company that sells subscriptions to access their software or media, and people in other countries are buying it. Are those sales included in determining trade deficits? Would they be subjected to tariffs? Or are tariffs exclusively on physical products that are shipped?
Now that I think of it, a pizza is just a radar dish that hasn't yet realized its full potential.
April 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Now that I think of it, a pizza is just a radar dish that hasn't yet realized its full potential.
Twice today I got 2FA codes with 8 digits instead of the 6 digit codes that I've usually seen. Starting to max out human short-term memory for digits! (7 ± 2 items (5-9 digits) for about 15-30 seconds)
April 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Twice today I got 2FA codes with 8 digits instead of the 6 digit codes that I've usually seen. Starting to max out human short-term memory for digits! (7 ± 2 items (5-9 digits) for about 15-30 seconds)
I've been using LLMs to think through a lot of personal projects. I would definitely open up to LLMs more if I knew that my personal data was protected. One of the nice things about talking to a friend is that they don't upload your conversation to the cloud. LLMs should have an edge-only option.
April 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I've been using LLMs to think through a lot of personal projects. I would definitely open up to LLMs more if I knew that my personal data was protected. One of the nice things about talking to a friend is that they don't upload your conversation to the cloud. LLMs should have an edge-only option.