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The “Bad Guys” Of Engineering: What Defines “Design-Centric” Companies Like Apple | Co.Design | business design
The “Bad Guys” Of Engineering: What Defines “Design-Centric” Companies Like Apple | Co.Design | business design Intriguing story that contrasts “design driven”, “engineering driven”, and “marketing driven” enterprises. I wonder how many senses of the word “design” are deployed in this story.
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I saw four sets of computing education research questions in live coding. These are unusual research questions for me because they’re Vygotskian and non-Constructionist. Live coding is about performance. It’s not an easy task. The live coder has to know their programming language (syntax and semantics) and music improvisation (e.g., including listening to your collaborator…
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Rhizome | Announce: Researcher in Fabrica Urban Codes studio
Rhizome | Announce: Researcher in Fabrica Urban Codes studio The Urban Codes studio at Fabrica, Benetton’s communications research center located in Treviso, Italy, creates new tools in order to better understand contemporary cities, citizens and urban cultures. It focuses on how people interact with each other and their environment, the changing norms of living in…
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emmacooper: “Diálogo de mãos” 1966 Lygia Clark + Helio Oiticica.
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So, I think premium goods are premium only when wearing them makes us beautiful… They say ‘each game has its own sorrow’. If we enter that game with no knowledge of how to play or no personality, it is easy to be considered as showing off, arrogant and having no personality. A participant in Words…
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(via Seej | Zheng3) The rules to Seej are open source and infinitely expandable. Seej is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. At a minimum, you’ll need to download and print the Seej 2013 starter set. It contains flags, catapults, and two kinds of bloxen. (You can still download the original starter set for…
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The original Seej Starter Set gets an upgrade to take advantage of the advances made in home 3D printing over the last twelve months. The dawn of the hobbyist resin printer is upon us, so the set includes a one-piece flag and a fancy voronoi bloxen you can use to show off your printer’s capabilities.…
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He [Alan Greenspand] said all his financial models over the past 40 years were wrong. Yet those models informed his adjustment of interest rates, and if they were based on wrong models, he likely harmed the economy, consistently, decade after decade. The Dismal Failure Of Big Data -SVW pair with Dubberly “Models of Models” from…
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matthen: Two touching identical circles have the same area as the negative space they create in a circumscribing larger circle. That allows us to create this gif, where the circles transform without changing area. [can you prove the first sentence?] [code]
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[Talk] Computational Sociology—Digital Traces in Online Places: Methods, Software, & Applications—Thu 10/3
fuselabs: This coming Thursday, Ryan Acton, a computational sociology professor at UMass Amherst, is coming to give a talk on his work investigating “digital traces” online. Ryan has been studying network dynamics on websites such as epinions.com, and last.fm. For example, he’s been analyzing group formation around concerts advertised in last.fm and built an R package called scrapeR…