With the aid of AI, researchers have uncovered three hundred new Nazca Lines previously unknown—nearly doubling the number of these ancient, massive figures impressed in the ground of the Peruvian desert only discovered with the advent of air travel—bringing older, faded and weathered ones into sharper focus. The cultural purpose of these designs that are only appreciable from a bird’s eye perspective are an enduring mystery but this new cache of images (we hope they’re not machine hallucinations) will provide insights into the people who created them and include fantasy creatures, orcas, llamas and a depiction of human sacrifice.
synchronoptica
one year ago: AI on fake virality (with synchronoptica), the tarot art of Leonora Carrington, the thermodynamic history of the universe plus a solar observatory in Potsdam
seven years ago: self-marriage, assorted links to revisit plus US Homeland Security monitoring social media
eight years ago: Keats’ To Autumn, mirror spiders plus remediative meditative sessions for elementary school
ten years ago: lexical gaps and the European Day of Languages
eleven years ago: German fondness for abbreviation
