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prostheticknowledge: British researchers claim they can kill the pixel within five years The familiar pixel could be on it’s way out, as developers are putting together a video codec which works with vectors, via Extreme Tech: The humble pixel — the 2D picture element that has formed the foundation of just about every kind of…
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prostheticknowledge: British researchers claim they can kill the pixel within five years The familiar pixel could be on it’s way out, as developers are putting together a video codec which works with vectors, via Extreme Tech: The humble pixel — the 2D picture element that has formed the foundation of just about every kind of…
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monstereatsdesign: Robomatic
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maxistentialist: Big Cards Against Humanity announcement: See how our pay-what-you-want holiday packs did and how we spent the money. I’m so proud of everything about this. Cards Against Humanity is the most fun project I’ve ever worked on.
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Even Karl Marx, champion of workers, argued that ‘the artist must earn money in order to be able to live and to create, but he must by no means live and create for the purpose of making money.’ To my way of thinking, it is criminally ignorant to suggest that some people’s labor shouldn’t be…
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Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What…
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Argument fragment… work in progress
There is a kind of Algorithmic Break, or Algorithmic Turn in the cultures of developed nations. It is most evident and visible for those born in the 1050s and 1960s, and is signaled by the VCRs flashing 12:00, perpetually, in the homes of a consuming public. On one side of the break was a set…
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A New Jersey teenager who launched a campaign to get Hasbro to make a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven is expected to meet with the toy company Monday afternoon. According to The Associated Press, the oven’s team at Hasbro invited 13-year-old McKenna Pope of Garfield, N.J., to share her thoughts and ideas. McKenna wants the company to…
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justaturnofthedial: The school where I teach has a tradition that makes the last day of school before winter break a free day, where teachers can plan fun activities or students can do whatever they want. Conversation has already begun about what kind of epic shenanigans will take place on Friday, because everyone knows that everything…
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dgharmon points out with news at CNET and on Ray Kurzweil’s own site that Kurzweil will join Google as Director of Engineering. Specifically, “he will be joining Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing,” which sounds to me like another way to say “quickening the singularity.” http://search.slashdot.org/story/12/12/15/1423244/ray-kurzweil-joins-google-as-director-of-engineering (via candidexplorations)