I just finished the excellent The Printing Press As An Agent of Change, by Elizabeth Eisenstein, and wanted to get down a few notes about…
This is a book by a man with the fantastic name of Wayne Wickelgren – and I want to mention it because Wickelgren was a…
Fuck this year. With that said … Radiohead at Secret Solstice Woooooosh. There were lots of other amazing bands at Secret Solstice, but the best…
For, as ever, certain values of weeks. Ada Palmer’s TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING is dazzling – so dazzling, in fact, that I don’t know if…
– In the middle of The End of The West, I went to Iceland! I can recommend it. – Some fine Canadians are working on…
On May 31st, 2016 the track/upload endpoint will be removed from the public API of Spotify / The Echo Nest, ending an era. I don’t want…
– Systems thinking as LARP. No, really. – At the last MMHD, Halley Young spoke about sonification of algorithms, and played a great example of running…
– The complete works of Walter Benjamin are available as PDFs. Here’s the big one – thanks to Sam Valenti for the tipoff. – James…
Still on catch-up. – Google has open-sourced their machine learning system. This is sort of amazing, even if some of my academic pals are not…
Late, again, but lots to talk about. – Y Combinator is starting a research lab. Which is interesting in at least six ways. I, personally,…