Blackstone completes Acquisition of Ancestry.com

New York, December 4, 2020 – Blackstone (NYSE:BX) today announced that private equity funds managed by Blackstone (“Blackstone”) have completed their previously announced acquisition of Ancestry® from Silver Lake, GIC, Spectrum Equity, Permira, and other equity holders for a total enterprise value of $4.7 billion. Current Ancestry investor GIC will continue to retain a significant minority stake in the company.

The super-rich 'preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

As a humanist who writes about the impact of digital technology on our lives, I am often mistaken for a futurist. […]

studio notes 7-1-23

I have graduated and I am back in Austin. All of my stuff is still in a u-haul box on a long drive here from Los Angeles.

Voyager- An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models

We introduce Voyager, the first LLM-powered embodied lifelong learning agent in Minecraft that continuously explores the world, acquires diverse skills, and makes novel discoveries without human intervention. […]

Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute

The “Scholastic Utopian” Aesthetic

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cnidario/ca-pixi

Implementación de autómata celular sencillo en Javascript. La renderización es llevada a través de PixiJS. Se ha propuesto su utilización en generación procedural de cuevas en 2 dimensiones. […]

cellauto.js

In the above example, a cell that has 2 living cells surrounding it will survive. If 3 living cells surround surround the cell, it can come back from the dead. This function is called every step of the simulation and is passed an array of neighbors to this cell. […]

studio notes 6-1-23

Critique Reflection

studio notes 5-20-23

Things I’d like to do if I get more time

studio notes 5-19-23

Last night was the opening of the UCLA DMA Thesis show, which held the Grotto-connected installation I’ve been working on this quarter.