week 136

Late, again, but lots to talk about.

– Y Combinator is starting a research lab.  Which is interesting in at least six ways.  I, personally, hate the lack of speed in academia, but there are many things that said lack of speed enable.

– LineFORM, from the Tangible Media Group at MIT, is sort of neat.  We currently think of our personal supercomputers as phones / black mirrors / etc, but they for sure do not have to be.  (The actuation looks pretty cheap, to me, but the idea is particular)

– We went on an art field trip at work, and saw, among other things, the monumental Frank Stella retrospective at the Whitney, along with lovely things by Elsie Driggs.

– Ellen Jewett, on the other hand, is not much of a modernist, but is amazing.

– Biosciences just get more and more bonkers.  I think I’ve mentioned CRISPR before, but it really can’t be mentioned too often.  Note the money line of the “editable mouse” – that’s us in a few generations.

– Brian McFee pointed me at Neural Storyteller, which is terrifying and wonderful.