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hyperallergic: Icelandic Scientists Find Link Between Creativity and Mental Disorders I will have to read this to the root. The pendulum continues swinging on this relationship. And, of course, vanGogh offered as a poster child to perpetuate the story.
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todaysdocument: “Private First Class Lawrence Bartlett, Niagara Falls, New York, examines the four fallen lions which once adorned the top of the Siegestor, built by King Ludwig I, in 1844-1852 in tribute to the Bavarian Army. Munich, Germany, June 13, 1945. Army.” From the series: Cultural Institutions and Artwork in Europe and other War Areas (Photo…
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futurescope: TED-RNN – Machine generated TED-Talks Hilarious #ComputationalComedy coding project by Samim. He fed a Recurrent Neural Network with all existing TED Talk Transcripts (1904 speeches or 22.4MB of text which amounts to 4038409 words) and now the model outputs machine generated TED Talks. You can watch three speeches – from Jürgen TEDhuber, Ada LoveTED…
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Basic parts of our infrastructure are vulnerable to hacking
stoweboyd: Concerns about cybersecurity are rising, but most people think about hackers stealing credit card data from corporate databases, while it may be just as critical to worry about services we take for granted, like the electric grid or air traffic control. The Internet of Things (IoT) is bringing a new awareness of security vulnerabilities…
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A Conversation with Nichelle Nichols – StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson
A Conversation with Nichelle Nichols – StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson samueldelany: “Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews Nichelle Nichols! Listen to these brilliant folks discuss (anti-)Blackness, space, MLK and more!” –SLT
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Can a videogame help convince someone to become an Uber driver? The company seems to think so, as it’s just released Uber Drive, a Google Maps-based game that puts you in the role of a driver — or “partner” as Uber likes to say. You’re tasked with picking up customers (Uber encourages you to focus…
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What Is Code? If You Don’t Know, You Need to Read This
What Is Code? If You Don’t Know, You Need to Read This
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A mysterious little book called Iterating Grace is floating around San Francisco right now. At least a dozen people have received the book in the mail—or in my case, by secret hand-delivery to my house. (Which is a little creepy.) Who wrote this amazing, mysterious book satirizing tech startup culture? | Fusion
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Affordances as a concept originally comes from cognitive psychology and James Gibson (2015 [1979]). He was primarily interested in investigating what stages people learn to use what he called “action possibilities” of their environment. In the late 1980s, however, Donald Norman (1988) brought the term into human-machine interaction and added a design twist on Gibson’s…
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Design Principles for Participatory Politics
Design Principles for Participatory Politics