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austinkleon: » Frank Ocean Can Fly – NYTimes.com Artists don’t usually give satisfying answers to the question of how or why they do what they do, and maybe that’s for the best. Sometimes songs mean more to us when we don’t totally grasp the lyrics. Ocean is acutely aware of this. He knows that, as…
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emergentfutures: “not only are viewers impatient when it comes to poor quality (Slow-starting video that buffers or is low-resolution), but they are becoming increasing less tolerant. In 2011, increasing the time a viewer’s content buffered by just 1 percent usually led to 3 minutes less of viewing time. Now that same 1 percent increase in…
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A team of neuroengineers based at Brown University has developed a fully implantable and rechargeable wireless brain sensor capable of relaying real-time broadband signals from up to 100 neurons in freely moving subjects. Several copies of the novel low-power device, described in the Journal of Neural Engineering, have been performing well in animal models for…
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epistemes: bekindplzrewind: infinity-imagined: Neurons growing in a cell culture These time lapse animations use phase contrast microscopy to show neural stem cells in a nutrient medium for 4 hours. They reveal the dynamic growth and recycling of dendrites and synapses as neurons establish relationships with each other. The social behavior of these cells creates the…
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Sarah Lacey Wants The Cloud To Work
stoweboyd: Somehow I missed this post from Sarah Lacey in December, when Yammer crashed for a day, and Pandodaily’s entire work flow crashed along with it. Sarah Lacey, Dear Yammer and the entire cloud wave: If you expect companies to use your software, it has to work Let this be a warning for companies trying…
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cinoh: Talking Heads – Heaven
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petroglifs: ””Cosmic Sentinels and Spiral Jetties: J.G. Ballard, Robert Smithson & Tacita Dean,” by Andrew Frost, at Ballardian “Smithson, as has been well documented, was a reader of science fiction. He read Ballard and appropriated Earthworks, his preferred term for Land Art, from the novel of the same name by Brian Aldiss.”
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Fubar-osity
petroglifs: This is the raw text of the keynote I gave at Improving Reality on Thursday. Thanks again to Honor and her crew for being so wonderful, and for so kindly inviting me. HOW TO SEE THE FUTURE Warren Ellis The concept of calling an event Improving Reality is one of those great science fiction ideas.…
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Showing tangible signs of caring and of empathy ensures that cabin fever never takes hold. It’s one of the personality traits Sir Ernest Shackleton looked for, when signing-on crew for his expeditions. As Rolf, who has Shackleton as a role model, always says: “I can teach anyone how to sail, but I can never change…
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The Singularity Already Happened; We Got Corporations
quietbabylon: One of my favourite recurring tropes of AI speculation/singulatarian deep time thinking is mediations on how an evil AI or similar might destroy us. Here’s a recent example, Ross Anderson on human extinction as quoted/linked by Kottke. It’s a discussion about how a benign AI might be poorly designed and lead to our downfall.…