More from Blog - Mac Pierce
A review of the group show Minionotics (March 13th - April 13th, 2025) at Weatherproof Gallery in Chicago.
A photo gallery showcasing images taken at the 2025 National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices.
How I made Castle Doctrine, a 1:1 scale fully 3D-Printed American Revolutionary War era cannon.
In which I detail the process of making a cannonball by participating at a very unique iron casting event.
How and why I built the DOGMAS project, a self contained Morse code reader in the form of a candle.
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There are people and organizations that are working overtime to redirect and manipulate your attention. The question is: Are they more aware and careful in how you spend your attention than you are? The act of focusing on what we focus on pays enormous dividends.
Image by Rizka, via Wikimedia Commons In South Korea, where I live, there may be no brand as respected as Habodeu. Children dream of it; adults seemingly do anything to play up their own connections to it, however tenuous those connections may be. But what is Habodeu? An electronics company? A line of clothing? Some […]
“AI is brilliant and it can do everything.” “AI hallucinates sometimes and it can’t be trusted.” “AI is a trick, a clever way to induce people to believe it’s human-like, but it’s not.” It turns out that AI hallucinates all the time. Sometimes, these hallucinations are useful, worth interpreting as helpful contributions, and sometimes, not […]
Though its answer has grown more complicated in recent years, the question of whether computers will ever truly think has been around for quite some time. Richard Feynman was being asked about it 40 years ago, as evidenced by the lecture clip above. As his fans would expect, he approaches the matter of artificial intelligence […]