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Fichter For Understanding: ScratchJr: What Can It Offer Older Students?
Fichter For Understanding: ScratchJr: What Can It Offer Older Students?
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There are no enemies in the game and nobody is killed, and yet since its launch in April 2014 Monument Valley has sold 5 million copies and generated $13 million in revenue by attracting a broad base of fans beyond hardcore and experienced gamers including kids, old people, families, and newcomers. (via Secrets behind the…
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Batchelor: For those who somehow missed Apple’s announcement last month, what is 3D Touch? How does it work? Wafer: 3D Touch is a new screen technology that Apple developed for the iPhone 6S and detects variable pressure placed on the screen. It works by using capacitive sensors, which can measure microscopic changes in distances between…
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Sex, art and picnics: the rise of the alternative video game festival
Sex, art and picnics: the rise of the alternative video game festival
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savemillsbookart: This morning, I got word that the Mills College Book Art Program—the program in which I earned my MFA—is in danger of being eliminated. This program has meant so much to me and the thought that the foolish advice of a consulting company may lead to its complete removal for future generations of book…
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Taking Book Arts skills to a Computer Science PhD
savemillsbookart: I am a Mills alum (2009) with a Book Arts minor. The Book Arts programme was a big factor in my decision to attend Mills– I saw the studio on the student visiting day, had my chance to print something on one of the Vandercooks, and immediately fell in love. As a freshwoman, I…
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The John Peel Lecture – BBC Music John Peel Lecture – Iggy Pop’s Keynote Speech Transcript – BBC Radio 6 Music
The John Peel Lecture – BBC Music John Peel Lecture – Iggy Pop’s Keynote Speech Transcript – BBC Radio 6 Music
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new-aesthetic: An algorithm can predict human behavior better than humans – Quartz It’s fairly common for machines to analyze data, but humans are typically required to choose which data points are relevant for analysis. In three competitions with human teams, a machine made more accurate predictions than 615 of 906 human teams. And while humans…
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kateordie: brain-food: It’s been pretty great at my shop today. I live for this
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shrinkrants: DSM 5 AS A DYSTOPIAN NOVEL Book of Lamentations By SAM KRISS at The New Inquiry … The narrative voice of the book affects a tone of clinical detachment, one in which drinking coffee and paranoid-type schizophrenia can be discussed with the same flat tone. Under the pretense of dispassion this voice embodies a whole…