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by Yenrabbit 650 days ago
"Every four seconds or so, you see something new that you would never have guessed from the previous pictures. Each time it's a different cascade of activations in your brain, evoking random memories, creating unexpected connections, and stimulating thoughts that would never have occurred to you...What I need is an app that does nothing but show you truly random pictures, with no curation and no memetic aspirations. If you know of one, please let me know." I made a site quickly, that shows a random series of pictures from Unsplash, since I was curious to try this! https://random-photo-cascade.replit.app/ (Built with Replit's new agent feature, which is impressive for this kind of very constrained task)
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And very quickly hit a rate limit apparently! Just switched to a different option without the unsplash limits.
This is cool! After watching for a few mins, seems to be heavily weighted towards nature, architecture, and generally artsy pictures. Wonder if there is a way to expand the scope/randomness even further