Unelected Oligarchy: corporate and financial power in Britain under the spotlight
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In his prescient valedictory address to the American people, President Eisenhower warned of the ascendancy of “the military-industrial elite” that would dictate much of the public…
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Could sarcastic computers be in our future? New math model can help computers understand inference
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ScienceDaily (May 30, 2012) In a new paper, the researchers describe a mathematical model they created that helps predict pragmatic reasoning and may eventually lead to the manufacture of…
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In the early days of photography there was a great deal of optimism around its potential to present the public with an accurate, objective picture of the world. In the 19th century pioneering…
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Cryptoforestry: THE TECHNOLOGY WILL FIND USES FOR THE STREET ON IT'S OWN
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This .walk example shows the classic generative psychogeographical algorithm, that urban exploration haiku, written down like a pseudo-computer language .
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How I Feel Satisfied with Every Day
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I like to consider myself a very productive person. I do a lot of writing, I make a good living running my own business and I maintain many open source projects. And yet, by outward appearances, I…
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Solving Scramble With Friends – a tale of three data structures « Developmentality
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This post aims to illustrate how to solve Scramble With Friends/Boggle and the techniques and data structures necessary. In particular, we will see how to prune an enormous search space, how to use recursion to simplify the task, and the relative performance of three different data structures: an unsorted list, a sorted list with binary search, and a trie.
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Statisticians Investigate Political Bias On Wikipedia - Slashdot
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The team first identified 1,000 political phrases based on the number of times these phrases appeared in the text of the 2005 Congressional Record and applied statistical methods to identify the phrases that separated Democratic representatives from Republican representatives, under the model that each group speaks to its respective constituents with a distinct set of coded language.
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It’s Really Kicking Off In Quebec « The Disorder Of Things
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from The Disorder Of Things http://thedisorderofthings.com
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On Journalism #2 Typewriter by Julian Koschwitz writes stories never written..
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writes generative stories about journalist killed worldwide between 1992 and today. The individual stories are typed on a continuos piece of paper, connected through common fields of coverage, places and published work.
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Can an Algorithm be Wrong?
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How do we know if we are where it’s at? Tarleton Gillespie explores the controversy over Twitter Trends and the algorithmic ‘censorship’ of #occupywallstreet. Throughout the…
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The Crisis of European Democracy
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IF proof were needed of the maxim that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the economic crisis in Europe provides it. The worthy but narrow intentions of the European Union’s policy mak
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Depth of Field – A General Guide for Beginners
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By Jason Row on 27 May 2012 in ShootingDepth of field is one of the most powerful tools we photographers have in our arsenal. It can be used to create great depth in a landscape or highlight the eyes…
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Conscientious: Visit Conscientious for regular, daily updates, including photographer profiles.
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Photography is memory. Memory is photography. If it only were that simple! Maybe we need to be more precise. It’s never a good idea to begin an article with nitpicking, but in this case there…
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Benjamin R. Barber: Occupy Wall Street -- "We Are What Democracy Looks Like!"
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They are engaging with one another to develop an alternative, a paradigm shift: self-government in place of corrupt central government, active participation in place of the culture of complaint, responsibility in place of cynicism. It may not be possible to govern a nation of 300 million this way, but it offers a powerful riposte to the tyranny of money over everything under which we now live.
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Exploring Metering Modes
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This is the third in a series of four articles about exposure by Andrew S Gibson – author of Understanding Exposure: Perfect Exposure on your EOS camera. You can read the first lesson, which…
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Video - Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg - Ken Burns on Why His Formula for a Great Story Is 1+1=3 - The Atlantic
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Ken Burns has been telling incredible stories for decades, and we thought that if anyone would have a thoughtful perspective on this, it’d be him. So this project started as our own exploration to figure out what that magic dust is that brings his stories to life.
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To Profile or Not to Profile?
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(Photo by Anxo Resúa) I recently wrote two articles in defense of “profiling” in the context of airline security (1 & 2), arguing that the TSA should stop doing secondary screenings of people who…
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Tattoos: The Legacy of a Seafaring Heritage | History Today
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Nor did the more bloody aspect of this art form deter members of Cook’s crew from a little experimentation. His men were among the first Europeans to acquire Polynesian tattoos, setting a trend that eventually spread through the Royal Navy. By the early 19th century 90 per cent of sailors sported a tattoo as a souvenir of their distant travels, often practising the technique onboard ship.
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Ask Stack: How to develop deep programming knowledge? | Ars Technica
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"If you want to learn something, read about it; if you want to understand something, write about it; if you want to master something, program it."
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10 Python one liners to impress your friends « /code/blog
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After 10 Scala / Ruby / Clojure / CoffeeScript one liners to impress your friends, i thought it might be interesting to quickly try out the same in Python too.
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REVEALED: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you
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Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following freedom of information requestAgency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general…
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Flask + Nginx + Gunicorn(on a Vagrant box)
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I had some difficulty in grasping how exactly to set up a server when I tried to do so recently, so I decided to write a tutorial that will guide you through the process. Hopefully, this post will…
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Anonymous Hackers Pwn Drone Company >9000
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Anonymous hackers have defaced the home page of Alpha Unmanned Systems, a company based in Spain which claims to be: experts in designing simple and portable Flight Control Systems. The company is…
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New Left Project | Articles | Plausible deniability: PR and the political economy of elite power
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“The role of PR has been to facilitate an ‘institutional corruption’ in British governance, the effects of which will be with us for many years to come…A key role of the PR industry in late 20th century Britain and a condition of its spectacular growth was to make profits from, and facilitate, the marked redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich.”
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Recent Issue - October 2011
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Computational Journalism Sarah Cohen, James T. Hamilton, Fred Turner October 1, 2011 Thanks in no small part to the modern computer's ability to gather and disseminate seemingly limitless amounts and…
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Causality loop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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predestination paradox, more commonly referred to as a causality loop, is a theoretical phenomenon, which is said to occur when a chain of cause-effect events is circular. For instance, if event A causes event B, and event B causes event C, and event C causes event A, then these events are said to be in a causality loop.
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Censorship in South Africa
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A brief sketch for a satirical play: it is a kind of Threepenny Opera, if you will. A sculptor – he is white, his politics left and his belly suggestive of successful gallery sales –…
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A beginner’s guide to… EBM – FACT magazine: music and art
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A beginner’s guide to… EBM Words: Daniel B (Nothing But Noise / Front 242) The term EBM – Electronic Body Music – had already been around for a few years before we, Front…
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from The Sociological Imagination http://sociologicalimagination.org
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Forward Strategy Group: Labour Division – FACT magazine: music and art
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‘Metal Image’ take more conventional techno tropes and twist them slightly, removing the linearity and adding structures that encourage the listener to reach into the depths. The two most interesting tracks, however, again move away from the expected and draw inspiration from elsewhere. ‘TTH’ may be based around metallic drones, but they form a melodic bedrock that coupled with the shifting beat and white noise gasps refer as much to darker ’90s IDM sounds as they do current techno
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From Words to Concepts and Back: Dictionaries for Linking Text, Entities and Ideas
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The data set contains triples, each consisting of (i) text, a short, raw natural language string; (ii) url, a related concept, represented by an English Wikipedia article's canonical location; and (iii) count, an integer indicating the number of times text has been observed connected with the concept's url. Our database thus includes weights that measure degrees of association.
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Why Your Camera’s Meter gets Exposure Wrong
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This is the second in a series of four articles about exposure by Andrew S Gibson – author of Understanding Exposure: Perfect Exposure on your EOS camera. You can read the first lesson, which…
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PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » Police Brutality? Pictures Tell a More Complicated Story
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The last image of the series shows a police officer cocking his fist to punch a protester. By itself, it’s easily read as (another) act of police brutality against citizens exercising their constitutional rights. But context is everything, as the rest of Cassella’s images illustrate: The police officer is throwing the punch to stop a protester from swinging a heavy stick (for the second time) at the head of another police officer who had lost his helmet.
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The Facebook IPO: Shareholders Weren't Invited to the Real Party | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
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a kind of two-tiered market system – in which most of the real action takes place inside an unregulated black-box network of connected insiders who don’t disclose their relationships or their interests, while everyone else, i.e. the regular suckers, live in the more tightly-policed world of prospectuses and quarterly reporting and so on.
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The Exuberance Project | A Response to Pessimism
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A large Zanele Muholi installation makes up the back wall in an annex of Mandela Rhodes. Eyes. Lips. Different shades of brown. Blinking. Twitching. The slightest of movements. Next to it, a Photo XP…
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How to properly set your camera's ISO speed | The Discerning Photographer
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The lower the ISO, the slower you must shoot, but the finer the ‘grain’ in your resulting image. The higher the ISO, the faster you can shoot, but with the tradeoff being increased digital noise in the results. Evaluate what your needs are and set your ISO accordingly.
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Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1
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This is the first in a three-part series.~~~Part 1: Meditations on a Radiant FishWhen I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe, I suffer psychotic depression.— Philip K. DickPhilip K. Dick is…
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How can we provide opportunities for kids to make real-life discoveries on their own instead of Googling and Youtubing everything?
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Children spend more and more time in front of the computer and less time in the busy streets of urban environments. This is certainly not due to their need, but to a lack of room for children in…
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Social mobility: the charts that shame Britain | News | guardian.co.uk
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how socially mobile is Britain today? We've collected the key data together which shows that, as far as social mobility goes, the UK is way behind many other countries. There is already a lot of data out there on this - in particular the OECD's recent report on social mobility across the world and a recent report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on social mobility.
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Chris Granger - The future is specific
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If you couple that with the generalized editing capabilities I showed last time, you have what we believe to be the future of tools: an environment that you are able to mold to the exact shape of your problem.
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After Dusk – What You Need to Know About Night Photography
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This is just a small selection of ideas and tips for night photography, there are many other themes you can follow, such as painting with light, moonlit landscapes and astrophotography to mention just a few.
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Exploring Art Data 24 - Rob Myers
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We can divide an image into sections, analyse the R, G and B values of each of those sections and plot the results.
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R-Forge: CulturalAnalytics: Project Home
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Code for statistical analysis and plotting of image properties for use in the Digital Humanities.
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The Final ROFLCon and Mobile's Impact on Internet Culture - Waxy.org
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Every talk I saw was amazing. All the sessions are making their way onto YouTube, and are all worth checking out. I posted some of my personal highlights on Twitter, but if you missed them, here are my favorites
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What we talked about at ISA 2012: how music brings meaning to politics
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At this year’s ISA conference, I presented on the panel ‘The Social Technologies of Protest’, with George Lawson, Eric Selbin, Robbie Shilliam and our discussant Patrick Jackson.…
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The 25 web TV shows you need to see | Television & radio | The Guardian
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With everyone from Joss Whedon to Seth MacFarlane involved, internet TV is attracting huge stars, big bucks and small-screen spin-offs. Here are the best streams to point your browser at
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Everything Is Not Connected « ANTHEM
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The only alternative is to adopt an object-oriented model of fully formatted entities lying beyond the grasp of the human mind and even of each other. After providing some theoretical background for this claim, I will consider several recent political phenomena that are better understood by an object-oriented approach than a holistic one.
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Below is the text of my keynote talk from the Computers and Writing conference. There was a video made, so I will include that when it becomes available. Thanks to everyone on NC State for making the…
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Python Scripting Console for Gephi | Gephi
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The first release of the Gephi’s Python Console plugin is finally available for download. Through this plugin, you can execute queries and manipulate the graph structure by typing commands on a scripting console, making it a very powerful and concise tool to work with.
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The Cybernetic Newsroom « (Re)Structuring Journalism
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meta-writers,” trained journalists who have built a set of templates. They work with the engineers to coach the computers to identify various “angles” from the data. Who won the game? Was it a come-from-behind victory or a blowout? Did one player have a fantastic day at the plate?
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How Reliable Are the Social Sciences?
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Public policy debates often involve appeals to results of work in social sciences like economics and sociology. For example, in his State of the Union address this year, President Obama cited a…
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Preview: Photomonth Krakow Poland - lens culture photography weblog
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from lens culture photography weblog http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/
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The Essential… Boards Of Canada – FACT magazine: music and art
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The Essential… Boards Of Canada Words: Joseph MorpurgoOn first glance, the name ‘Boards Of Canada’ is a wonderful non sequitur, a riddle ripe for the cracking. Its provenance,…
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