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gewyns: Solar Reserve by John Gerrard. Every day on my way to and from work I pass this digital simulation. During its first days I stopped to appreciate it. Then the clouds approached the scene and it seized my attention. This contrast is unbelievably breathtaking. The juxtaposition of a modern display representing humanity’s technological advancement in an iconic city,…
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Driving a legobot with a simulated worm nervous-system
mostlysignssomeportents: More news from the Openworm project, whose Kickstarter I posted in April: they’ve sequenced the connectome of all 302 neurons in a C. Elegans worm, simulated them in software, and put them to work driving a Lego robot. The legobot’s sensors and motors are connected to the software in a way that corresponds to…
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explore-blog: Italo Calvino was offered the 1985–1986 term of the prestigious Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard. He died weeks before he was scheduled to deliver his lectures, but working on them, his wife recalls, was the obsession of his final months. Calvino’s manuscripts for the lectures, in which he looks back on “the…
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shrinkrants: Writing in the same year that Thatcher was elected, Foucault described a nascent neoliberalism that we now experience in its mature state. For those of us born in a post-Reagan America, having operated within this system our whole lives, there can be no doubt that Foucault’s thinking describes our present. As graduate students, we’ve…
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circuitfry: I know for a fact this post is going to be huge haha BUT I GOTTA SHARE IT, IT’S SO COOL. Redditor fnordcorps just finished assembling his portable Oculus Rift mod. He turned his briefcase (“Pelicase”) into a virtual reality jack-in station, AND IT’S DIY!!! Now THAT is CYBERPUNK!!! Specs: AmdAthlon II x2 250 (3.0ghz),…