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Introducing Hyperlinked.us
Around a year ago (January 27, 2025) I got an email out of the blue from Raaghav Pandya, introducing himself…
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From HTML to GenAI: Re-visiting Three Early-Web Projects
I’ve been on a bit of a vibe-coding spree lately, building interactive simulations, educational tools, cultural experiments, all through conversation…
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The Parrot’s Tale, Updated
I’m in Bangalore this week for Quest Alliance’s Quest to Learn 2025 conference. Looking back through my blog, I found…
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Making Thinking Visible: Some Examples of No-Code (Vibe) Coding
I was thrilled recently when my friend Josh Brake mentioned me in his Substack post about “The Forward Deployed Educator.”…
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Bilingual Tomfoolery: Phonetic Visual Puns & Puzzles
Four copper pots. A fountain pen on a bus. A bull with a crow. A peacock in a bucket. What…
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Kant, Borges, & AI go to Bollywood: Connections Nobody Asked For
Intro: I am not entirely sure of the point of this post: a somewhat random associative rumination that brings together…
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Drawing with Circles: Vibe coding the Fourier Transformation
In my presentations I sometimes talk about my four years in engineering school as being something of a disaster. The…
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Making Waves (& Flocking Birds): Creating Science Simulations with AI
I’ve been experimenting with AI-assisted coding for a while now—in fact my first attempt was back in early 2023. Since…
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Exploring the TypeVerse: When Typography Meets AI Poetry
Back in January I wrote about my typographical designs where letters do double duty and how I was collaborating with…
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On the Ethical Perils of Mass-Produced Books: A Concerned Scholar’s View
The prose below is from a manuscript that was recently discovered in the archives of the Indian National History Museum.…
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Incorrect Scientific Simulations as an educational tool: Vibe coding the wrong way
What happens when you drop a ball while running? Will it fall in front of you, at your feet or…
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When Ghalib meets AI: One student’s experiment
In my previous post about rediscovering Ghalib through metal and rap, I mentioned sharing his work in my creativity class.…
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The Hidden Metal in Ghalib’s Heart
Mirza Ghalib, was a celebrated poet who lived in Delhi in the 19th century Delhi. He was as famous for…
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Code, Kathak, and Confusion: A Story of Learning with GenAI
One of the students in my Human Creativity x AI in Education class is an accomplished Kathak dancer and last…
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Sine Language: Circling Pythagoras Through Sound and Color
This semester I am teaching a course on Human Creativity X AI in Education. (More about our first week here.)…
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Double Vision: A Creative Dance of Typography & AI
I love playing with type and words. Recently I got obsessed with creating a particular kind of typographic design—layouts where…
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Oops! Double Trouble with Double Dactyls OR Learning from AI’s Creative Mistakes
As headlines swirl about AI chatbots misrepresenting Anne Frank (Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not…
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The Dance of Entropy: A Transdisciplinary Exploration
One of the ideas we have been exploring in my transdisciplinary creativity class this semester, is that of how generative…
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Welcoming 2025: A Final Reflection (& Calling an End to a 16-year Tradition)
Since 2008, our family has been creating short videos to celebrate the start of a new year. Each video is…
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Can Machines Stink? A Touring Test of Human Exceptionalism
My friend Leigh Wolf sent me the Journal of Imaginary Research‘s 2024 call for abstracts (note, abstracts not papers) on…
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Finding In/Sight: A Recursive Dance with AI
In this post, I share a conversation with Claude.AI (my words in purple, Claude’s in blue) that began as a…
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Kern You Believe It? A Typographical Tango with AI
As someone who enjoys playing with images, words, and typography, I’m always seeking new ways to generate ideas. I recently…
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Pencil Literacy: A framework
I have been thinking of pencils lately. Pencils in the context of AI. What if pencils were the latest technological…
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Endless Sky: AI composes a song
A few years ago I wrote a poem titled “A cosmologist worries (about infinity)” inspired by a conversation with my…
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Reflection: Welcome 2024
Since December 2008 we have been creating a video to welcome the new year. When we made our first video…
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A-EYE: When AI can see
AI can now see! And talk to you about what it sees! ChatGPT released its latest upgrade – the ability…
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Artificial Intelligence, Math / Truth & other ambigrams
Lovers of mathematics relish challenges, enjoying the manipulation of numbers and geometrical figures, seeking and creating patterns. Their fascination sometimes…
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It Takes Two: A (personal) exploration
I had written earlier about a contest organized by Dark ‘n’ Light (an e-zine) around the theme of “IT TAKES…
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It Takes Two: A scientific romp using AI
Dark ‘n’ Light is an e-zine that “explores science, nature, social justice and culture, through the arts and humanities.” It…
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Teaching an old dog new tricks
I have been playing with Photoshop Beta, a version of Photoshop with a range of AI-powered tools that let you…