shri

@shrikhalpada.dev

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creative coder, data nerd, big fan of liberalism also into coffee shops, guitar noodling, hoops, and playing chess poorly data viz: http://perthirtysix.com creative coding: http://shrikhalpada.dev/projects

A scatterplot showing inflation-adjusted budget vs. box office revenue
some electric guitar noodling + a calico cat walking around
From a 404 article: The data suggests, perhaps unsurprisingly, that a huge portion of longform posts on LinkedIn and X’s new article format are fully AI-generated or AI-assisted (meaning drafted, edited, or rewritten by AI with some human elements). Forty percent of longform LinkedIn posts analyzed in the data were fully AI-written; a quarter of X articles were fully AI written, but another 23 percent of X articles were AI-assisted, the company said. It intuitively makes sense that longer form content is more likely to be AI-generated, because people usually won’t bother to AI-generate a few word response or a pithy comment on a quote tweet, for example. AI is also famously verbose, meaning AI-generated content is more likely to show up in longer posts.
A trippy p5 visualization layering in multiple cloudy grids
Cat next to container full of kibble
Sankey diagram showing where players from the 16 remaining World Cup national teams play club soccer, linking each national team to the country of their clubs; England is the largest destination, followed by Spain, France, Italy, and Germany.
Michael Scott: Guess who just ordered from your favorite pizza place, Alfredo? Kevin: Wait. Alfredo's pizza cafe? Or Pizza by Alfredo? Michael Scott: Same thing. [everyone groans] You know what, I don't understand when you all talk at the same time! Kevin: Oscar, talk to him. Oscar: Michael, there's a very big difference between these two pizza places. Both in quality of ingredients and in overall taste. Which one did you order from? Michael Scott: Pizza by Alfredo. [everyone groans] All right, you know what? Okay, okay. What is better, a medium amount of good pizza, or all you can eat of pretty good pizza? All: A medium amount of good pizza.
creating a qr code live in real time
an AI alignment compass that puts me in the bad/transformative quadrant
deer on a path
a demo of additive synthesis
A preview of an additive harmonic wave builder
Two blue Jays
A chart showing solar's steep cost slope
The Guardian's data viz newsletter shouting out How The Heck
A screencap from the perthirtysix 17-0 game
wikipedia link to article about energy storage
Calico sitting majestically
A quiz where the user has to guess which of two clips is real across several genres
A perfect score
A headline saying "California's Public Universities Went All In On Egg They're Tearing Themselves Apart"
A scatterplot of shri's step goals in May, temperature on the y-axis and step count on the x-axis
A 2D simulation of a 3x3 traffic grid
A video preview of "How The Heck Do Traffic Lights Work?"
a washington post op-ed piece that says: Computer scientists have known since the 1950s that computer programs can, in principle, emulate any aspect of human thought.
A 3D animation of lidar for vehicle detection
a tweet by the white house saying "American steel is back" with a 2-year bar chart with a highly compressed y-axis
An ad for quillbot's AI text humanizer
An excerpt from "How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work?"
calico kitten in 2022
a newsletter post about the tricky algorithm of picking colors for an NFL scorebug
A visual showing different energy levels of photons hitting a silicon lattice, and the efficiency of converting those to electricity
An interactive chart showing how efficient different band gaps are at converting to electricity
A pie chart of US spending in 2024 with slices for WHO and Global Climate Initiatives that are invisible when drawn to scale
A pie chart of US spending in 2024 with slices for WHO and Global Climate Initiatives that are invisible when drawn to scale
Calico cat napping
A reddit thread about the "How The Heck Does Shazam Work?" piece: First comment: "Do people really not know how a computer with a microphone can digitize sound and match it against a database?" Second comment: "3 years ago you asked on Reddit how to swipe to go back on Safari"
Cat in a book store
demo of https://perthirtysix.com/nfl/draft/efficiency-by-position
A democratic Virginia sample ballot with an I Voted sticker
Ravens draft report card
Video walkthrough of the new PerThirtySix piece "How The Heck Does Shazam Work?"
A piece called "how does shazam work?"
A cat behind a window that says 5 star security
A video showing a globe with 4 satellites converging on a point
A dark-background infographic showing 12 nested timelines, from the formation of the universe 13.8 billion years ago down to the author's birth in 1993. Each row zooms into a highlighted region of the one above, illustrating how brief human existence is relative to cosmic time. Pastel colored horizontal lines represent each era, connected by shaded trapezoid shapes that show the zoom relationship between rows.
Cat in a hammock catching a sunbeam
A quote from my piece "Is Music Just Sound?": Advocates will sometimes compare AI music's effect on music to photography's effect on visual art as a way to suggest that resistance to new technology is just fear of change. But photography created something new and announced itself as such. Shulman has said it "doesn't make sense to have an AI world and a non-AI world of music". The goal is indistinguishability, not a new medium. And unlike photography, which built its own identity from scratch, AI music was trained on the entire corpus of human music without consent and now competes directly with the people it learned from. There's no reason to think that new technology will always yield the same positive outcomes as it has in the past. There's a clear difference in scale when we compare AI music generation to historic technological disruptions in music. Drum machines and samplers didn't autonomously generate 7 million songs a day and distribute them to streaming platforms with most of us being unaware. The speed at which AI music is being created, distributed, and recommended means that the usual process of culture adapting to new technology just doesn't have time to play out like it has in the past.
Tulips at the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington, VA
Cat looking at rainbow wand
Image 1 (Monoculture): Network graph showing many listeners connected to the same few artists. Image 2 (Discovery): Network graph showing listeners connected to a broader, more distributed set of artists with some overlap. Image 3 (Hyper-personalization): Network graph showing each listener isolated in their own small cluster, with no connections between groups.
An interactive 3D visualization on the web of DC's metro stations
Cherry blossom trees
My PerThirtySix data essay on AI music and royalties, featured in GIJN's weekly Data Journalism Top 10 roundup
A picture of DC from the Smithsonian gardens
Ed Hawkins' "Climate Stripes" visualization
A visualization showing American wealth inequality as stick figures taking up space. The top 0.1% has 14.4% of the space while the bottom 50% has 2.5%
calico cat in a green laundry basket
An NFL draft report card for the Baltimore Ravens, featuring a sleek set of visuals and analytics breaking performance down by year, position, team, etc
Calico cat in a bag