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• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

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  This rocky hill in Ebihens, France, is, well, just that -- a rocky hill in Ebihens, France. But to pretty much any human observer, the assemblage of meaningless angles takes on…

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  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…

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• Bookmark Scans of Hoarders’ Brains Reveal Why They Never De-Clutter

  Hoarding disorder is categorized as “the excessive acquisition of and inability to discard objects, resulting in debilitating clutter,” wrote the researchers behind the new study, led by Yale University School of…

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• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

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• Ask Metafilter Speculative Realism 101 Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. I am interested in Speculative Realism (SR) (and Speculative Materialism (SM)) as attempts to overcome 'Philosophies of access' (those which privilege the human being over other entities; anthropocentrism). Also, any texts that…

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• Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software

  For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

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• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

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• Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter

  Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

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  Your grandmother insists on locking you inside a cage. She places the key in an alcove filled with newts. The newts taunt you. #VoightKampff

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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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• Wikipedia Titivillus Titivillus was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes. The first reference to Titivillus by name occurred in Tractatus de Penitentia, c. 1285, by Johannes Galensis, John of Wales.[1] Titivillus…

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  To what extent do the material components (e.g. hardware, source code, network protocols) and properties (e.g. speed, malleability, erasability) of digital technology influence the methodologies one might employ to study it?…

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• Bookmark "Once upon a time" exhibition by Steve McQueen

  In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the…

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  Alongside the Dadaists in the early twentieth century, the German artist Kurt Schwitters developed a style he called “Merz” (detached from the end of “Kommerz,” German for “commerce,” to create a…

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  There have been plenty of conferences about the future of publishing, but few, if any, have been aimed at writers. The Literary Consultancy remedied this recently with a two-day conference –…

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  We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

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  Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins was picking another fight. Normally, this would not be an occasion worthy of comment. The best way to distinguish between Professor Dawkins’ waking and sleeping states is probably…

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  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…

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• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 8 2012, 2:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Pareidolia: A Bizarre Bug of the Human Mind Emerges in Computers

  This rocky hill in Ebihens, France, is, well, just that -- a rocky hill in Ebihens, France. But to pretty much any human observer, the assemblage of meaningless angles takes on…

  August 8 2012, 2:46am | 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

• Wikipedia Category:Body parts of individual people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Individual pieces of human anatomy which are famous in their own regard : #Wikipedia

  August 8 2012, 2:40am | Comments

• Portfolio A Shot to the Arse

  August 8 2012, 1:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Scans of Hoarders’ Brains Reveal Why They Never De-Clutter

  Hoarding disorder is categorized as “the excessive acquisition of and inability to discard objects, resulting in debilitating clutter,” wrote the researchers behind the new study, led by Yale University School of…

  August 7 2012, 12:24am | Comments

• Vimeo

  August 5 2012, 4:39pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 1 2012, 8:07am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 28 2012, 6:30am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Speculative Realism 101 Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. I am interested in Speculative Realism (SR) (and Speculative Materialism (SM)) as attempts to overcome 'Philosophies of access' (those which privilege the human being over other entities; anthropocentrism). Also, any texts that…

  July 26 2012, 7:40am | Comments

• Tumblr Interstellar Pulse intothecontinuum: In July 1967, astronomers...

  July 25 2012, 7:01am | Comments

• Bookmark Stanford and Venter Institute Simulate an Entire Organism With Software

  For medical researchers and biochemists, simulation software will vastly speed the early stages of screening for new compounds. And for molecular biologists, models that are of sufficient accuracy will yield new…

  July 23 2012, 8:29am | Comments

• Portfolio LISTEN TO MY EXECUTABLES

  July 23 2012, 3:06am | Comments

• Portfolio Binary Nomination

  July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments

• Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation

  In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

  July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments

• Bookmark Passing the baton of life - from Schrödinger to Venter

  Craig Venter spins increasingly ubiquitous metaphor: "The digital and biological worlds are becoming interchangeable" "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of…

  July 19 2012, 8:09am | Comments

• Twitter

  Your grandmother insists on locking you inside a cage. She places the key in an alcove filled with newts. The newts taunt you. #VoightKampff

  July 18 2012, 3:07am | Comments

• Metafilter The Pantone Merkel Chart A Pantone chart of German chancellor Angela Merkel's many coloured jackets

  July 17 2012, 2:52pm | 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

• YouTube

  July 16 2012, 3:52pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Titivillus Titivillus was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes. The first reference to Titivillus by name occurred in Tractatus de Penitentia, c. 1285, by Johannes Galensis, John of Wales.[1] Titivillus…

  July 13 2012, 1:00am | Comments

• Bookmark DIGITAL FORM DISCUSSION

  To what extent do the material components (e.g. hardware, source code, network protocols) and properties (e.g. speed, malleability, erasability) of digital technology influence the methodologies one might employ to study it?…

  July 11 2012, 6:37am | Comments

• Bookmark "Once upon a time" exhibition by Steve McQueen

  In the work Once upon a Time (2004) McQueen presents a slide show of 116 of these images installed to make them seem to float in space: about two-thirds of the…

  July 11 2012, 4:57am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 11 2012, 1:57am | Comments

• Twitter

  for!the!proof!of! existence!of!a!Universal! Turing!Machine!

  July 10 2012, 3:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Merzbow and Justin Bieber

  Alongside the Dadaists in the early twentieth century, the German artist Kurt Schwitters developed a style he called “Merz” (detached from the end of “Kommerz,” German for “commerce,” to create a…

  July 10 2012, 2:58am | Comments

• Bookmark How to write in the digital age

  There have been plenty of conferences about the future of publishing, but few, if any, have been aimed at writers. The Literary Consultancy remedied this recently with a two-day conference –…

  July 10 2012, 2:56am | Comments

• Bookmark Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?

  We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:55am | Comments

• Bookmark Rationally Speaking: Enjoying natural selection on multiple levels

  Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins was picking another fight. Normally, this would not be an occasion worthy of comment. The best way to distinguish between Professor Dawkins’ waking and sleeping states is probably…

  July 10 2012, 2:53am | Comments

• Bookmark I Like to Build Alien Artifacts

  "How does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will & human life?" Can cells become little computers? And how does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will, intelligence, and…

  July 10 2012, 2:50am | 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

• Bookmark The Gallery of Lost Art

  The Gallery of Lost Art, from the Tate

  July 10 2012, 2:46am | Comments

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