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• Bookmark How algorithms rule the world | Science | The Guardian

  The NSA revelations highlight the role sophisticated algorithms play in sifting through masses of data. But more surprising is their widespread use in our everyday lives. So should we be more…

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• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

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• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

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  In the 1930s British Mathematician Alan Turing studied normal numbers. During World War 2 he cracked the Nazi Enigma code, and then laid the foundations for computing and artificial intelligence. In…

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• Bookmark Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary

  An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like…

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• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

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  We have met our match at the genteel pastime of jigsaw puzzles. It seems an algorithm can now whiz through 10,000 pieces in 24 hours. The speedy solver could also help…

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  Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask

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  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

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  This is the raw text output of a chat session with a bot I modified to act as an interlocutor. I use our conversation, which revolves around the history of spam,…

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• Bookmark The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age

  Berry’s book is less one specific philosophical argument of what software is and what code does, but consists of chapters that illuminate different ways one can approach software and software culture…

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  In case you haven’t heard, the newest champion of "Jeopardy!," the popular TV game show, is a computer. Watson, an enormous computer developed by researchers at IBM, was pitted against the…

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  Three years ago, Edge collaborated with The Serpentine Gallery in London in a program of "table-top experiments" as part of the Serpentine's Experiment Marathon . This live event was featured along…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

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  THE news of the day often includes an item about some development in artificial intelligence: a machine that smiles, a program that can predict human tastes in mates or music, a…

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  One of the most beautiful aspects of the genetic code is its simplicity: three letters of DNA combine in 64 different ways, easily spelled out in a handy table, to encode…

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  Along with his work on synthesis, or using machines to create sounds, Cope had dabbled in the use of software to compose music. Inspired by the field of artificial intelligence, he…

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  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

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  A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out the…

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

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• Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…

  Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision regarding,…

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• Twitter

  Team up with your favourite algorithm

  

  July 19 2013, 1:49am | Comments

• Bookmark How algorithms rule the world | Science | The Guardian

  The NSA revelations highlight the role sophisticated algorithms play in sifting through masses of data. But more surprising is their widespread use in our everyday lives. So should we be more…

  July 3 2013, 2:39am | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 3:12am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  The Turing Normalizing Machine | An experiment in machine learning & algorithmic prejudice

  June 2 2013, 7:26am | Comments

• Bookmark The Turing Normalizing Machine | An experiment in machine learning & algorithmic…

  In the 1930s British Mathematician Alan Turing studied normal numbers. During World War 2 he cracked the Nazi Enigma code, and then laid the foundations for computing and artificial intelligence. In…

  May 19 2013, 5:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary

  An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like…

  September 29 2012, 4:28am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 28 2012, 6:30am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

  July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

• Bookmark Algorithm beats jigsaw-solving record

  We have met our match at the genteel pastime of jigsaw puzzles. It seems an algorithm can now whiz through 10,000 pieces in 24 hours. The speedy solver could also help…

  June 27 2012, 3:29pm | Comments

• Vimeo

  June 27 2012, 3:58am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Everything You Wanted to Know About Data Mining but Were Afraid to Ask

  April 3 2012, 2:33pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Gamers Outdo Computers at Matching Up Disease Genes

  March 27 2012, 7:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Roar so wildly: Spam, technology and language

  This is the raw text output of a chat session with a bot I modified to act as an interlocutor. I use our conversation, which revolves around the history of spam,…

  February 16 2012, 5:20am | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 15 2012, 3:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age

  Berry’s book is less one specific philosophical argument of what software is and what code does, but consists of chapters that illuminate different ways one can approach software and software culture…

  September 6 2011, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark I, for One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords

  In case you haven’t heard, the newest champion of "Jeopardy!," the popular TV game show, is a computer. Watson, an enormous computer developed by researchers at IBM, was pitted against the…

  February 19 2011, 5:15pm | Comments

• Bookmark Serpentine-Edge Map Marathon Gallery

  Three years ago, Edge collaborated with The Serpentine Gallery in London in a program of "table-top experiments" as part of the Serpentine's Experiment Marathon . This live event was featured along…

  October 15 2010, 6:52am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark The First Church of Robotics

  THE news of the day often includes an item about some development in artificial intelligence: a machine that smiles, a program that can predict human tastes in mates or music, a…

  August 28 2010, 6:43am | Comments

• Bookmark The code within the code

  One of the most beautiful aspects of the genetic code is its simplicity: three letters of DNA combine in 64 different ways, easily spelled out in a handy table, to encode…

  May 7 2010, 2:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Triumph of the Cyborg Composer

  Along with his work on synthesis, or using machines to create sounds, Cope had dabbled in the use of software to compose music. Inspired by the field of artificial intelligence, he…

  March 12 2010, 3:09am | Comments

• Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

  March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the Age of its Digital Corruptibility

  December 27 2009, 9:06pm | Comments

• Bookmark Myriahedral projection maps of the world

  A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out the…

  December 23 2009, 2:50am | Comments

• Twitter

  Archive or algorithm?

  May 6 2009, 4:26am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

• Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…

  Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision regarding,…

  March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments

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