– 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,…
Once more with feeling! – This Is My Jam is gone, but in the best way. Big love. – Experiment.com is super interesting, and filled…
– XENOFEMINISM. I mean, that’s an instant click, right? – Some clever bunnies can do really scary good things with synthesizing photos from sketches. – Twenty…
What’s a bug? And is it a glitch? Or an error? Well. It was Grace Hopper, who, before inventing the compiler, popularized the term “bug” (though Edison may…
Two years after I had the idea of blowing up Brahms scores by modifying the .jpg files, I finally have a done thing: Details and link to…
I have opinions about academia. Here are some of them: – Money. There needs to be more of it. This is not a new sentiment,…
– I got a paper about Xenakis accepted by CIM 2014, which is happening right now! Thanks to the musicologists for trusting a programmer to know…