Resources

This is in equal parts a public and personal repository for useful links, literature and tools to enable an easy entry into topics and a deep dive into it. These bits and pieces were shared with me, made me understand aspects better, inspired my work or opened new ways of technological exploration. I hope it offers some for you as well.

Let me know if you think there is something missing.


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Reading

Books

The Value of a Whale (By Adrienne Buller)

Manifests

DarkFi

Papers, articles and more

Decentralization enables permissionless innovation (Gordon Brander)
Bodies On The Blockchain (via Right Click Save)
In Experiment, AI Successfully Impersonates Famous Philosopher (via Vice)
Forensic Architecture asks if analysis hold power to account (via Wallpaper)
Symmetries, Scaffolds, and a New Era of Scientific Discovery (via The Gradient)
Exploring the MH17 Linked Buk Convoys in Ukraine and Russia with Mapbox (by bellingcat)
Knowledge structures (by Gordon Brander)
How thinking hard makes the brain tired (via The Economist)
A bioengineered cornea can restore sight to blind people (via MIT Technology Review)
Code Is Speech: Amir Taaki on Crypto's Debt to Phil Zimmerman (via CoinDesk)
A designer's guide to running an Eth2 validator (via Argent)
Judging the algorithm: A case study on the risk assessment tool for gender-based violence implemented in the Basque country (via Montreal Ethics)
How Siestas Might Help Europe Survive Deadly Heat Waves (via Wired)
Why do we call it breadcrumbs? Diving into the history of UI components (by Megan Ng via UX Collective)
What does GPT-3 "know" about me? (via MIT Technology Review)
Here Is the Manual for the Mass Surveillance Tool Cops Use to Track Phones (via Vice)
Watch this team of drones 3D-print a tower (via MIT Technology Review)
This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it. (via MIT Technology Review)


Machine Intelligence

ML Tools

Weights & Biases: Developer tools for ML
Introduction to GAN models: An introduction to machine learning in general and GAN models in particular by Google.
Hugging Face: The Github of machine intelligence projects – allows for sharing, collaborating on and deploying ML models.

Text to Image

DALL·E 2: A powerful closed-source image generation model by OpenAI.
Midjourney: A powerful closed-source image generation model by Midjourney.
Stable Diffusion – v0.2.3: A powerful open-source image generation model by Stability AI.
Disco Diffusion – v5.61: An open-source image generation model (now with portrait_generator_v001) in an interactive Google Colab.
stablediffusion-infinity: Outpainting with Stable Diffusion on an infinite canvas
Getting Started with Stable Diffusion

Text to Video / 3D

DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion
Make-A-Video: Facebook's Text-to-Video model
Phenaki

Video to Text

Whisper: OpenAI multi-language text transcription model

ML Datasets

Image Module - Pillow documentation: Python package for image manipulation, useful for preparing image training data
Tutroial: Generate square or circular thumbnail images with Python, Pillow

Infinite Images and the latent camera (by Herndon Dryhurst Studio)

ML Interactive Experiments

Same Energy: An image search engine focused around visual similarities
Text to Pokémon: Want to see yourself as a Pokemon? Look no further.


Fabrication & Open Source

Additive Manufacturing

3D Printing Glossary by HP: A handy overview of terms related to 3D printing (Big thank you to Denise & the girls at Lyndhurst STEM Club!)

Build and Repair

REFLOW: Co-creating circular and regenerative resource flows in cities


Digital Art

Generative Art

A Generative Landscape (via Reddit)
All about that grain (via fxhash)
Replit Ghostwriter Beta and AI Mode: ML-supported coding in the browser
The Fire Within – Generative ink patterns

Intersecting Tech & Nature

Hybrid Ecosystems (by Entangled Others Studio)
ciphrd
An algorithmic digital painting series (via fxhash)

Places, Events, Artists & Collectives (new)

Ungroup
Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe
Domestic Data Streamers Barcelona
DALÍ:CYBERNETICS at Ideal Barcelona
MIRA Digital Arts Festival Barcelona
Cosmo Caixa Barcelona

Notable Projects

The Follower (by Dries Depoorter)
GoogleMaps Hacks (by Simon Weckert)
Autonomous Trap 01 (by James Bridle)
Watching the Watchers (by James Bridle)


Decentralization

Basic Concepts

What kind of layer 3s make sense? (by Vitalik Buterin)

Building Blocks & Infrastructure Layers

status.im: A decentralized, censorship-resistant communication protocol and messenger
Urbit: A decentralized operating system
Gitcoin: Build and Fund the Open Web Together

Decentralized Society & Network States

Nation3

Wallets

A Treatise on Bitcoin Seed Backup Device Design
Gnosis Chain & Safe: Popular multi-sig wallet

Blockchain Analytics

Otterscan: A blazingly fast, local, Ethereum block explorer built on top of Erigon
ETH-CLI: Minimalistic Ethereum wallet for command line, NodeJS and the browser
Dune Analytics
Nansen


Data Resilience & Analysis

Encryption / Decryption

Flipper Zero: Portable Multi-tool Device for Geeks

Satellite Imagery

SARfish: Ship detection in Sentinel 1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery
Six Tools To Help With Geolocation
OSINT At Home #14 – How to find fires from space

Image & Video Verification (new)

To Uncover a Deepfake Video Call, Ask the Caller to Turn Sideways (by Metaphysic.ai)
Am I Real?: Spotting symmetry in ML-generated portraits

Social Networks & Protocols

Tactical Tech

OSINT

Crash Course on Handling Satellite Images: Or: “Why are my pictures so ugly?”
IntelTechniques OSINT Online Search Tool
CAT-UXO: Catalogue to identify UXO (unexploded ordonance)
Osint tool collection: A collection of several hundred online tools for OSINT
GNU Radio: Free & Open Source Radio Ecosystem · GNU Radio
Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites


Digital Design & Collaboration

UI/UX Design

Framer: This prototyping tool has matured into a fully-fledged no-code web frontend design tool.

Fonts & Typefoundries

Postea

Documentation & Collaboration

Why Group Brainstorming Is a Waste of Time
BaseCamp: A project management tool aiming to unify communication, planning and file-sharing

CMS & Hosting

Grav: Flat File CMS
Strapi: Flat File CMS
Flask: Easily deploy Python projects
Tailwind: CSS classes framework
Vercel: Popular hosting provider with free tier
Kirby: Powerful CMS solution