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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)
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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)
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Now here’s the really exciting tidbit. A decade ago, Perry co-created Konfabulator, a rapid application development platform that spawned the whole desktop widgets craze and inspired Apple’s own implementation of Dashboard widgets in Mac OS X. The whole idea was to make it incredibly easy to make desktop apps. They had a whole community of…
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FOREVER ALONE DRONE: Bruce Sterling introduces us to his pretty Alluvian bride
arcfinity: Simon Ings writes: I owe Bruce Sterling about $200; thank God he’s forgotten. Back in the mid-1990s I was producing a little magazine of futurology (ha!) with Charles Stross. Charlie had written Bruce asking for material. Instead we got a cheque and about twenty A4s of notes that scared us half to death. Fast-forward…
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FOREVER ALONE DRONE: Bruce Sterling introduces us to his pretty Alluvian bride
arcfinity: Simon Ings writes: I owe Bruce Sterling about $200; thank God he’s forgotten. Back in the mid-1990s I was producing a little magazine of futurology (ha!) with Charles Stross. Charlie had written Bruce asking for material. Instead we got a cheque and about twenty A4s of notes that scared us half to death. Fast-forward…
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ourrisd: Design legend Tom Ockerse, a professor in our Graphic Design department, has a call to action he’d like me to share. Gather in Providence, RI, on Fri Dec 21, 2012, at 4:40 pm, outside of the RISD Auditorium, 7 Canal Walk, Providence River Greenway, Providence, RI 02903, to sing for the Earth’s healing and join the largest…
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“Toy Garbage” by Talan Memmott
“Toy Garbage” by Talan Memmott floresuprm: This generative poem re-purposes the code in “Tokyo Garage” and produces a remix of “Taroko Gorge” that is also an inversion of the natural world. As the poem unfolds like an endless stream of Toy Story outtakes (in which toys gain a life of their own when away from…
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“Toy Garbage” by Talan Memmott
“Toy Garbage” by Talan Memmott floresuprm: This generative poem re-purposes the code in “Tokyo Garage” and produces a remix of “Taroko Gorge” that is also an inversion of the natural world. As the poem unfolds like an endless stream of Toy Story outtakes (in which toys gain a life of their own when away from…
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pussy-strut: gole-yas: Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse relevant
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Jake Adam York, american poet
I’ve just received word, unconfirmed but from a reliable source, that Jake Adam York, american poet, has passed away suddenly from a stroke today. I am stunned by the news, and at a loss for words. http://jakeadamyork.com/