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Twitter Links THEORY BEYOND THE CODES: Doing with Icons makes Symbols; or, Jailbreaking the Perfect User Interface
Mediation and technologies of mediation, whether the sign (Vygotsky), the symbol (Piaget), or the mirror or signifier (Lacan), all play central roles in accounts…

April 18 2012, 12:29am | Comments
Twitter Links Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders
The differences, across a number of different brands of automated essay scoring software (AES) and essay types, were minute. “The results demonstrated that over…

April 13 2012, 7:30am | Comments
Metafilter "As you can probably imagine, this took some effort… "The calculator itself is just over 250x200x100 blocks. It contains 2 6-digit BCD number selectors, 2 BCD-to-binary decoders, 3 binary-to-BCD decoders, 6 BCD adders and subtractors, a 20…

March 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments
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Link Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to…
Emulators for playing older games are immensely popular online, with regular arguments breaking out over which emulator is best for which game. Today we present another point of view from…

August 11 2011, 4:25am | Comments
Tumblr How Computational Complexity Will Revolutionise Philosophy

August 10 2011, 5:31am | Comments
Link Brute force or intelligence? The slow rise of…
When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk." In 1770, a Hungarian…

August 8 2011, 8:39am | Comments
Instapaper The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation
Old Skool article @sciam : The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation #information #data

June 1 2011, 11:44am | Comments
Link Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter…
Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information…

March 6 2011, 4:43am | Comments
Link The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing
The field of the digital humanities embraces various scholarly activities in the humanities that involve writing about digital media and technology as well as being engaged in digital media production.…

March 2 2011, 7:36am | Comments
Link The Chess Master and the Computer
In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I walked from one machine to the…

June 20 2010, 3:11pm | Comments
Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational…

June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments
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