Daniel Rourke /stream

Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium
Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Digital Archaeology
Anyone who can read German can read the first book ever printed. If you can read Sumerian cuneiform, you can read clay tablets that were probably the first things ever written.…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines — [To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch,…
Sir—There are few things of which the present generation is more justly proud than of the wonderful improvements which are daily taking place in all sorts of mechanical appliances. And indeed…

December 31 2012, 6:54am | Comments
Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing
For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments
Portfolio Binary Nomination

July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments
Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between biological and silicon entropy? Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two? OK, to setup my question I…

June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments
Bookmark Sloppy MicroChips: Oh, that’s near enough
Letting microchips make a few mistakes here and there could make them much faster and more energy-efficient. Managing the probability of errors and limiting where they occur can ensure that the…

June 5 2012, 9:18am | Comments
Bookmark The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty
In the 1990s, Paul Romer revolutionized economics. In the aughts, he became rich as a software entrepreneur. Now he’s trying to help the poorest countries grow rich—by convincing them to establish…

June 12 2010, 9:21am | Comments
Bookmark A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites: Robert Smithson
By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture." A…

March 7 2010, 3:53pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code' and any actual objects or subjects that code is connected to - including, but not…

February 2 2010, 6:35am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments
Portfolio Beyond the Topology of the Book

May 27 2009, 9:01am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

May 5 2009, 7:35am | Comments

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