Matthew Conlen

research @ midjourney

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Introducing our V1 Video Model. It's fun, easy, and beautiful. Available at 10$/month, it's the first video model for *everyone* and it's available now.

[Midjourney @midjourney]

One of the most exciting new features for our new V7 model is something we call "Draft Mode". Draft mode is half the cost and 10 times the speed and it might be the best way to iterate on ideas ever. Try it with voice, think out loud and let our ideas flow like liquid dreams.

[Midjourney @midjourney]

We're now beginning the alpha-test phase of our new V7 image Model. It's our smartest, most beautiful, most coherent model yet. Give it a shot and expect updates every week or two for the next two months.

[Matthew Conlen @mathisonian]

@bycoffe awful news, wishing you and the rest of the team all the best in the next chapter

[Kaleigh Rogers @KaleighRogers]

538's open source API and all the other data we/they freely compiled and shared over the years drove so much important work across the industry. this is going to have pretty severe ripple effects. and it was often work done by 2 or 3 people.

[Matthew Conlen @mathisonian]

Sad to hear that FiveThirtyEight is shutting down. A blow to data-driven empiricism in journalism at a time when we need more of it.

Beyond the articles and visualizations, 538 was an invaluable source of open data - e.g. their polling averages were an industry standard because they were high quality and anyone could easily download a CSV.

I predict that ABC will start regretting this in early 2028 when they realize they need high quality elections analytics and their in-house expertise.

538 wasn't perfect - it especially recently had a branding problem where people associated it with Nate even after he left - but it never seemed like the higher ups understood what they had or the value of it. A shame.

But good news for those who run prediction markets?

[Matthew Conlen @mathisonian]

@jasonzding @midjourney No link but DM and i can share details

[Matthew Conlen @mathisonian]

Update from me:

I recently joined @midjourney to work on data visualization and human-computer interaction problems

I'm excited to be part of this team that's building cutting edge products and enabling a super creative community

[Matthew Conlen @mathisonian]

@midjourney https://t.co/CL8LjON1XE will continue to operate as it has, led by @harshwords222. expect some updates from him to come on that front soon

[Matthew Conlen @mathisonian]

@ashutoshmehra @_ericelliott Nice, thanks for sharing these

[Matthew Conlen @mathisonian]

anyone have links to interesting papers at the intersection of programming languages and LLMs?

not interested in e.g. langs that target GPUs, but more like what should traditional programming languages look like now that we have better tools for manipulating text

[VISxAI @VISxAI]

Reminder - a little under two months until #VISxAI submissions are due! We're excited to see your work. 📊

https://t.co/7z8DTq3vj1

[Matthew Conlen @mathisonian]

Great talk from @andy_matuschak on building better learning environments.

Especially appreciate the point about "shared canonical artifacts" being important. This so often gets missed when people talk about personalized media - there is a lot of value in having a specific version of a thing that exists for everyone! Building from and on top of these canonical artifacts makes a lot of sense to me

https://t.co/uwQNZMVXDp

[Jaan Altosaar Li, PhD @thejaan]

I need help:

building the next version of this map to visualize the price of health care in underserved communities.

Know anyone who wants to help?

Send em this/have them DM me.

This slide from a talk I gave last year at the Open Visualization Summit hosted by @openjsf

[Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com @sebastienlorber]

💡 TIL about Compute Pressure API

This permits observing compute pressure on things such as:
- CPU
- GPU
- thermals

Pressure levels: critical > serious > fair > nominal

This just landed in Chrome 125

This could be useful under the hood for Concurrent React? 🤔

[Matthew Conlen @mathisonian]

@noahlt he really just scooped my arxiv paper

[Matthew Conlen @mathisonian]

quick poll of something i'm curious about -

do you enjoy using voice as a method of interacting with technology (Siri, ChatGPT, etc)?

are you introverted or extroverted?

[Matthew Conlen @mathisonian]

@fkasummer figma as well