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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
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.
storytelling  video  documentary  narrative  film  beinghuman 
5 days ago by wrrn
Causality loop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
paradox  science  philosophy  ideas  beinghuman 
7 days ago by wrrn
DIKW - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chaim Zins to suggest that the data–information–knowledge components of DIKW refer to a class of no less than five models, as a function of whether data, information, and knowledge are each conceived of as subjective, objective (what Zins terms, "universal" or "collective") or both. In Zins's usage, subjective and objective "are not related to arbitrariness and truthfulness, which are usually attached to the concepts of subjective knowledge and objective knowledge". Information science, Zins argues, studies data and information, but not knowledge, as knowledge is an internal (subjective) rather than an external (universal–collective) phenomenon
data  knowledge  information  wisdom  science  beinghuman  connectionmachine 
16 days ago by wrrn
DIY learning: Schoolers, Edupunks, and Makers challenge education as we know it - O'Reilly Radar
Edupunks take educational building blocks and repurpose them in ways ranging from the mundane to the nearly unrecognizable. Not content with improving schooling, the movement is deeply infused with a DIY ethic that questions the purpose of education and the legitimacy of institutional definitions. In effect, they place the right and responsibility of defining educational goals and approaches on learners and their communities, and put the disassembled building blocks of educational technology to personal use.
open  education  learning  unschooling  beinghuman 
18 days ago by wrrn
Notes on Ian Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology
Of the concepts covered in the book, the most personally interesting to me what Bogost terms “carpentry.” Carpentry is the act of building objects that do philosophical work. It’s a brilliant concept. The gist of the argument is that while writing is certainly a good way to express some philosophical ideas, it’s limiting and potentially far too anthropocentric to allow us to plumb the depths of the truly alien.
philosophy  ideas  books  reviews  beinghuman 
23 days ago by wrrn
Ken Robinson on Passion on Vimeo
For most of us the problem isn’t that we aim too high and fail - it’s just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed. We need to find that magic spot where our natural talent meets our personal passion. This means we need to know ourselves better. Whilst we content ourselves with doing what we’re competent at, but don’t truly love, we’ll never excel. And, according to Ken, finding purpose in our work is essentially to knowing who we really are.
beinghuman  programming  human  video 
5 weeks ago by wrrn
You May Be Able to Actually Make Yourself Smarter—All It Takes Is Practice
the deceptively simple game, it turns out, targets the most elemental of cognitive skills: "working" memory. What long-term memory is to crystallized intelligence, working memory is to fluid intelligence.
brain  memory  tools  software  n-back  beinghuman 
6 weeks ago by wrrn
Some Conceptual Literature on Twitter : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The computer tweets the facts that it has learned from users of the Web, and our feedback corrects its misconceptions; hence, the inferences of the machine improve.
poetry  twitter  writing  narrative  connectionmachine  beinghuman 
6 weeks ago by wrrn
Slow Photography: Broomberg and Chanarin « Prison Photography
Since its inception photojournalism has traded in images of human suffering. If one of its motivations for representing tragedy has been to change the world then it has been unsuccessful. Instead the profession has turned us into voyeurs, passively consuming these images, sharing in the moment without feeling implicated or responsible for what we are seeing.
photography  media  culture  history  art  beinghuman 
6 weeks ago by wrrn
Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains
This compilation divides the three domains into subdivisions, starting from the simplest behavior to the most complex. The divisions outlined are not absolutes and there are other systems or hierarchies that have been devised in the educational and training world. However, Bloom's taxonomy is easily understood and is probably the most widely applied one in use today.
education  learning  psychology  teaching  Blooms  beinghuman 
6 weeks ago by wrrn
Bordering Populism in Immigration Activism » ThickCulture
Overall, each of the group’s stark rhetorical shifts for and against the government, businesses, and immigrants concurrently crafted and dismantled rhetorical borders, creating an unstable (counter)public forgoing the possibility of democratic communication and community
immigration  research  sociology  culture  society  philosophy  beinghuman 
6 weeks ago by wrrn
Limits of Science - Radiolab
Dr. Steve Strogatz wonders if we've reached the limits of human scientific understanding, and should soon turn the reins of research over to robots. Cold, calculating robots. Then, Dr. Hod Lipson and Michael Schmidt walk us through the workings of a revolutionary computer program that they developed--a program that can deduce mathematical relationships in nature, through simple observation.
science  philosophy  research  machine-learning  beinghuman  audio  computational-science  Scientific-Method 
8 weeks ago by wrrn
Automated science, deep data and the paradox of information - O'Reilly Radar
In a matter of minutes the algorithm converged on Newton's second law of motion: f = ma. What took humanity tens of thousands of years to accomplish was completed on 32-cores in essentially no time at all.
science  philosophy  research  machine-learning  beinghuman  NewAesthetic  software-studies  computational-science  Scientific-Method 
8 weeks ago by wrrn
Rhetological Fallacies
I’ve condensed all the definitions and tried to write them in the plainest of plain English. Also, I’ve roved for everyday, topical examples to give a sense of each fallacy and technique. As a team, we also created little ‘roadsigns’ to give you a visual-conceptual flavour of each.

In philosophy, there are some formal ways of categorising fallacies. I ignored those. Mostly, I admit, because I didn’t understand them. Instead I went for more intuitive groupings. That may not be canonical.
philosophy  ideas  critical_thinking  visualization  beinghuman 
9 weeks ago by wrrn
21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Female Subjects
If you ever run out of ideas, get stuck in creativity or simply need some guidance when shooting female subjects, you may use following posing samples as a “posing cheat sheet”. Many pro photographers use such a technique when preparing for and during the photo shoot.
photography  learning  ideas  beinghuman 
9 weeks ago by wrrn
Leonard Bernstein’s Masterful Lectures on Music (11+ Hours of Video Recorded in 1973) | Open Culture
Bernstein’s lectures covered a lot of terrain, touching on poetry, linguistics, philosophy and physics. But the focus inevitably comes back to music — to how music works, or to the underlying grammar of music. The lectures run over 11 hours. They’re considered masterpieces, beautiful examples of how to make complicated material accessible.
music  music-theory  musicology  philosophy  linguistics  poetry  beinghuman 
11 weeks ago by wrrn
Thinking Beyond the Brain: Educating and Building, from the Standpoint of Extended Cognition : Computational Culture
Thinking clearly about these sorts of issues requires (among other things, no doubt) a combination of historical perspective and philosophical precision concerning how we understand the technological embedding of our naked organic intelligence. The necessary historical perspective is nicely captured by Andy Clark’s memorable description of human beings as natural born cyborgs.5
extended-mind  cognition  philosophy  technology  beinghuman  embodied 
11 weeks ago by wrrn
Simple Harmonic Motion- OpenProcessing
based on "Pendulum Waves" http://j.mp/lxZfTY including all numbers (0.85Hz for slowest pendulum, 1.083Hz for fastest)
processing  music  art  beinghuman 
12 weeks ago by wrrn
Computational Culture
Computational Culture is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of inter-disciplinary enquiry into the nature of cultural computational objects, practices, processes and structures.
art  research  software-studies  philosophy  culture  beinghuman 
12 weeks ago by wrrn
Living Luminously
models  techniques  beinghuman  polyamory  psychology  from readability
march 2012 by wrrn
statistics / algorithms
statistics  algorithms  computing  data  beinghuman  simplenote 
february 2012 by wrrn
generative / new philosophy
ideas about the nature of philosophy
generative  philosophy  beinghuman  ideas  simplenote 
february 2012 by wrrn
Generative Philosophy - Rob Myers
Looking at Bayesian-filter-busting spam email, I had an idea. Train a genetic algorithm to make Markov chains. Train the chain on Project Gutenberg's philosophical texts. Train a spam filter on the same texts. Then evolve philosophical texts, evaluating them by keeping the ones that the filter catches.
philosophy  generative  ideas  programming  beinghuman 
february 2012 by wrrn
Metaphors We Live By, Lakoff and Johnson
language  metaphor  ideas  philosophy  beinghuman  from readability
february 2012 by wrrn
She-Hackers: Female Millennials and Open Source Subcultures in Europe
This paper aims to contribute to existing scholarship in the field of digital anthropology by exploring the physical and virtual experiences of gender amongst 30 Millennial-aged F/LOSS hackers, coders and hacktivists living in Europe.
hacking  gender  ethnography  community  human  beinghuman 
february 2012 by wrrn
Statistical Science and Philosophy of Science: Where Do (Should) They Meet in 2011 and Beyond?
The "meeting grounds" of statistical science and philosophy of science are or should be connected by a two-way street: while general philosophical questions about evidence and inference bear on statistical questions (about methods to use, and how to interpret them), statistical methods bear on philosophical problems about inference and knowledge
statistics  philosophy  science  research  logic  knowledge  beinghuman 
february 2012 by wrrn
The Neglected Virtue of Curiosity - Less Wrong
Researchers distinguish between state curiosity and trait curiosity. State curiosity is evoked by external situations. Why is the sky blue? How does quantum levitation work? Trait curiosity on the other hand is a characteristic that people possess to varying degrees. Someone with high trait curiosity seeks out complexity, novelty, conflict, and uncertainty
curious  curiosity  human  beinghuman  psychology 
january 2012 by wrrn
Ace Your Exams: Study Tactics of the Successful Gentleman Scholar | The Art of Manliness
I thought it would be helpful to offer some friendly study advice for those young men who might find themselves among the 33% of students who don’t know how to study effectively and might be struggling like I did. Even if you have some solid study skills, you’ll hopefully get something out of this article too.
study  tools  beinghuman  productivity  research 
january 2012 by wrrn
Stanford School of Engineering - Stanford Engineering Everywhere
The Motivation & Applications of Machine Learning, The Logistics of the Class, The Definition of Machine Learning, The Overview of Supervised Learning, The Overview of Learning Theory, The Overview of Unsupervised Learning, The Overview of Reinforcement Learning
ai  lectures  video  machine-learning  statistics  algorithms  beinghuman  study  Online-Courses 
january 2012 by wrrn
The story of the self | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
The memory researcher Martin Conway has described how two forces go head to head in remembering. The force of correspondence tries to keep memory true to what actually happened, while the force of coherence ensures that the emerging story fits in with the needs of the self, which often involves portraying the ego in the best possible light.
memory  human  psychology  cognition  beinghuman 
january 2012 by wrrn
Walking Randomly » Simulating Harmonographs
So how might we go about simulating a harmonograph? Well the motion of a single damped pendulum along the x axis can be described by the parametric equation
harmonograph  visualization  mathematics  ideas  beinghuman 
january 2012 by wrrn
CINEMETRICS — film data visualization
cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side
design  film  infographics  media  OpenCV  python  beinghuman 
january 2012 by wrrn
To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data
biology  knowledge  science  complexity  systems  data  NewAesthetic  beinghuman  from readability
january 2012 by wrrn
How to Do Philosophy Informationally
three methods to approach philo- sophical problems informationally: Minimalism, the Method of Abstrac- tion and Constructionism.
philosophy  research  ideas  cognition  ai  beinghuman  computing  computational-science  Scientific-Method  digital-humanities 
january 2012 by wrrn
Spectral Layers Audio Editor Focuses on Editing Sound Visually, a la Photoshop
Mapping frequency over time rather than just amplitude, the graphic spectrum illuminates components of a sound as we hear it, showing sonic energy of different frequencies in brightness and color.
audio  music  synthesis  tools  visualization  beinghuman 
december 2011 by wrrn
The Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
The philosophy of artificial intelligence is undergoing significant transformation in the wake of new technologies and conceptual developments that are having an increasingly widespread impact on the shape of society and human life more generally. Luciano Floridi’s research on the philosophy and ethics of information represents an innovative and fruitful approach to the unprecedented philosophical issues that are arising as a consequence.
philosophy  research  ideas  cognition  ai  beinghuman  computing  digital-humanities  computational-science 
december 2011 by wrrn
[Link] A gentle video introduction to game theory - Less Wrong
Game theory attempts to mathematically capture behaviour in strategic situations, in which an individual's success in making choices depends on the choices of others
game-theory  critical_thinking  philosophy  mathematics  beinghuman  connectionmachine 
december 2011 by wrrn
refreq [Sound, openFrameworks, Mac] - Music player that also lets your listen to images (bitmaps, imgs, pngs) / by Daniel Feles | CreativeApplications.Net
When you load a song, first the program analyzes the track, then it draws its frequency spectrum. After tracking, you can generate the spectral image / bitmap back into music.
music  programming  sound  opensource  ideas  beinghuman 
december 2011 by wrrn
The Why Axis » Seeing The Spread of (Mis)information on Twitter
this visualization is functionally advanced and richly detailed in the data it presents. The tools uses a custom physics engine for the twitter circles as well as custom renderers depending on the browser.
twitter  information-society  information  visualization  network-theory  beinghuman  connectionmachine 
december 2011 by wrrn
Scaling in Social Systems » Simulacra
Scaling and Allometry with respect to what happens when cities get bigger. The essential insight from Bettencourt and West and their other collaborators is that big cities generate more than proportionate returns to scale – positive allometry or superlinearity for things like creative industries, patents, incomes and so on
city  networks  network-theory  complexity  beinghuman 
december 2011 by wrrn
Prolog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prolog was one of the first logic programming languages,[7] and remains among the most popular such languages today, with many free and commercial implementations available. While initially aimed at natural language processing, the language has since then stretched far into other areas like theorem proving,[8] expert systems,[9] games, automated answering systems, ontologies and sophisticated control systems.
ai  programming  language  PROLOG  beinghuman  logic 
december 2011 by wrrn
>Wikileaks - The Spy files
The Wikileaks Spy Files reveal the details of which companies are making billions selling sophisticated tracking tools to government buyers, flouting export rules, and turning a blind eye to dictatorial regimes that abuse human rights.
wikileaks  surveillance  technology  business  industry  information-society  panopticon  beinghuman 
december 2011 by wrrn
Reading and Writing Electronic Text: ITP Spring 2011
This course introduces the Python programming language as a tool for reading and writing digital text. This course is specifically geared to serve as a general-purpose introduction to programming in Python, but will be of special interest to students interested in poetics, language, creative writing and text analysis.
language  programming  text  writing  python  generative  beinghuman 
december 2011 by wrrn
The Humble Introversion Bundle (pay what you want and help charity)
Epic, award-winning games. Darwinia, Aquaria, and Crayon Physics Deluxe are year-on-year, Seumas McNally Grand Prize winners at the Independent Games Festival, representing the very best in distinctive, engaging gameplay
games  software  opensource  beinghuman 
november 2011 by wrrn
Easy, Durable Contact Mics How-To, with Sample Audio
You’ll find plenty of contact mic tutorials floating around the Web, but bassling (Jason Richardson) – working with a learned technique – has what I think is a really nice example, one that sounds really good.
sound  music  hardware  diy  beinghuman 
november 2011 by wrrn
Evaluating Text Extraction Algorithms | My tech blog.
I’ve been working on evaluating and comparing algorithms, capable of extractinguseful content from arbitrary html documents. Before continuing I encourage you to pass trough some of my previous posts, just to get a better feel of what we’re dealing with; I’ve written a short overview, compiled a list of resources if you want to dig deeper and made a feature wise comparison of related software and APIs.
algorithms  data-mining  text-extraction  beinghuman  tools  software 
november 2011 by wrrn
RiTa
RiTa† is an easy-to-use natural language library that provides simple tools for experimenting with generative literature. The philosophy behind the API is to be as simple and intuitive as possible, while still providing adequate flexibility for more advanced users.
generative  language  processing  programming  java  beinghuman 
november 2011 by wrrn
The Secret Life of Pronouns - By James W. Pennebaker - Book Review - NYTimes.com
the “style” or “function” words, which, along with pronouns, include articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs and conjunctions — all of the connective tissue of language. We’re reasonably good at picking up on “content words”: nouns, action verbs, adjectives and adverbs. But “function words are almost impossible to hear,” Pennebaker warns, “and your stereotypes about how they work may well be wrong.”
language  linguistics  computing  SentimentAnalysis  books  beinghuman 
october 2011 by wrrn
The Book of Symbols: Carl Jung’s Catalog of the Unconscious
human  psychology  Jung  beinghuman  from instapaper
october 2011 by wrrn
Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way | Photojojo
When Taylor McKnight started taking a photo a day on January 1st, 2004, he never imagined the project would not only serve as a way to remember a year, but also help him understand what was important to him in his life.
photography  media  memory  beinghuman  ideas 
october 2011 by wrrn
Frieze Magazine | Archive | Art Rules
The point is: your years studying are a luxurious time to read, absorb, obsess, get jaded, experiment with hallucinogens, work on your Twitter feed and so on. However, after spending four years in college and seven on a doctorate and teaching, I learned more about art in one year working at the Walker Art Center than in any school
human  productivity  art  work  life  beinghuman 
october 2011 by wrrn
London – Meditation: MBSR – Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Programme
Susann Herrmann, CPsychol./OccupPsychol.(MA)

Trained by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
Founder and former Director of the Stress Reduction Clinic,
former Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness
and Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School
meditation  London  learning  human  cognition  health  beinghuman 
october 2011 by wrrn
Bookend Your Day: The Power of Morning and Evening Routines | The Art of Manliness
Today we’re going to talk about one of the very best: “bookending” your day with a morning and evening routine.
human  behavior  beinghuman  productivity  from delicious
september 2011 by wrrn
Latent Semantic Analysis in Python | Joseph Wilk
Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a mathematical method that tries to bring out latent relationships within a collection of documents. Rather than looking at each document isolated from the others it looks at all the documents as a whole and the terms within them to identify relationships.
semantic  language  python  programming  SentimentAnalysis  beinghuman  from delicious
september 2011 by wrrn
Linguistic modality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In linguistics, modality is what allows speakers to evaluate a proposition relative to a set of other propositions. In standard formal approaches to modality, an utterance expressing modality can always roughly be paraphrased to fit the following template:
linguistics  logic  language  philosophy  connectionmachine  beinghuman  from delicious
september 2011 by wrrn
Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) - Home
Find out about induction, access practice materials, and register for the QTS skills tests.
teaching  Jobs  future  london  beinghuman  from delicious
september 2011 by wrrn
Paradoxical Theory of Change
Briefly stated, it is this: that change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not. Change does not take place through a coercive attempt by the individual or by another person to change him, but it does take place if one takes the time and effort to be what he is -- to be fully invested in his current positions. By rejecting the role of change agent, we make meaningful and orderly change possible.
human  psychology  beinghuman  from delicious
august 2011 by wrrn
The Data Visualization Beginner’s Toolkit #1: Books and Other Resources — Fell in Love with Data
not all the knowledge a visualization expert needs comes from data visualization books. I have no intention to write another long list of related disciplines’ books, but it’s important for you to know that a good data visualization expert may have strong foundations in areas such as: statistics and data mining, data management and manipulation, human-computer interaction and cognitive science
information  visualization  learning  books  ideas  theory  beinghuman  from delicious
august 2011 by wrrn
IanniX — A graphical real-time open-source sequencer for digital art
IanniX is a graphical open-source sequencer, based on Iannis Xenakis works, for digital art. IanniX syncs via Open Sound Control (OSC) events and curves to your real-time environment.
OSC  iannix  tools  music  interface  SuperCollider  beinghuman  from delicious
august 2011 by wrrn
Chaos magic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Perhaps the most striking feature of chaos magic is the concept of the magical paradigm shift. Borrowing a term from philosopher Thomas Samuel Kuhn, Carroll made the technique of arbitrarily changing one's world view (or paradigm) of magic, a major concept of chaos magic.[4] An example of a magical paradigm shift is doing a Lovecraftian rite, followed by using a technique from an Edred Thorsson book in the following ritual. These two magical paradigms are very different, but while the individual is using one, he or she believes in it fully to the extent of ignoring all other (often contradictory) ones.
magic  occult  ideas  philosophy  theory  beinghuman  from delicious
august 2011 by wrrn
The Philosophical Computer - Introduction
This book is an introduction, entirely by example, to the possibilities of using computer models as tools in philosophical research in general and in philosophical logic in particular. The accompanying software contains a variety of working examples, in color and often operating dynamically, embedded in a text which parallels that of the book. In order to facilitate further experimentation and further research, we have also included all basic source code in the software.
philosophy  computing  Scientific-Method  logic  reason  beinghuman  computational-science  digital-humanities  from delicious
august 2011 by wrrn
Computational Philosophy of Science - The MIT Press
By applying research in artificial intelligence to problems in the philosophy of science, Paul Thagard develops an exciting new approach to the study of scientific reasoning. This approach uses computational ideas to shed light on how scientific theories are discovered, evaluated, and used in explanations
philosophy  community  Scientific-Method  beinghuman  books  from delicious
august 2011 by wrrn
Aporia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the term to “indicate a point of undecidability, which locates the site at which the text most obviously undermines its own rhetorical structure, dismantles, or deconstructs itself”
philosophy  information-society  psychology  human  beinghuman  from delicious
june 2011 by wrrn
The Philosophy Shop | Thinking Changes
The Philosophy Shop believes that philosophical enquiry, both in the development of reasoning and creative thinking, and in the exploration of central questions such as 'how should we live?' or 'how do we decide what to believe?', is crucially important to education. Philosophy develops the art of learning to learn and encourages more thoughtful and reflective children enabling them to participate in society more independently.  
philosophy  education  charity  teaching  youth  beinghuman  from delicious
june 2011 by wrrn
cij summer school 2011
again this year, we will be repeating one of our most popular annual offerings; the story-based inquiry track. This series of talks looks at tools for the conception, strategy, organising and composition of investigative projects. Each session in the track may be taken separately or combined with others and all have been updated with the latest research from the authors
journalism  media  data-mining  learning  london  beinghuman  from delicious
june 2011 by wrrn
The loneliness of the aardvark | Neuroself
This tiny little question is our gateway to a huge conceptual problem in the everyday metaphysics of science.  Because it leads us, inevitably, to understand that my friend in the hall was wrong.  Empiricism cannot function without rationalism. You begin to realize in your own way the thing that Kant realized in his.  That number two is in you.
philosophy  science  empiricism  Scientific-Method  reason  beinghuman  from delicious
june 2011 by wrrn
Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator - Waxy.org
I had to know more. With the help of Paul Ford, I interviewed Forbin about the project — using Telehack's send utility, naturally. Read on for the full interview about his motivations, how it's built, and why he's chosen to remain anonymous.
games  hacking  computing  history  beinghuman  from delicious
june 2011 by wrrn
Tough and tender: How touch affects sex categorization : Neurophilosophy
The new study adds to the growing body of evidence for embodied cognition, which refers to the way in which our thought processes are grounded in the body and the sensations arising from it.
neuroscience  cognition  mind  philosophy  self  beinghuman  from delicious
june 2011 by wrrn
Jonathan Stray » Investigating thousands (or millions) of documents by visualizing clusters
This is a recording of my talk at the NICAR (National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting) conference last week, where I discuss some of our recent work at the AP with the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs
beinghuman  data-mining  journalism  information-society  video  howto  from delicious
june 2011 by wrrn
Hackney Hear -- IndieGoGo
An interactive GPS-triggered audio tour of London’s East End (host of the 2012 Olympic Games) on your mobile phone.
london  hackney  sound  locationaware  apps  beinghuman  psychogeography  from delicious
june 2011 by wrrn
Brain Workshop - a Dual N-Back game
Brain Workshop implements this task. The dual n-back task involves remembering a sequence of spoken letters and a sequence of positions of a square at the same time, and identifying when a letter or position matches the one that appeared n trials earlier. Brain Workshop can closely replicate the conditions of the original study. In addition, it also includes optional extended game modes such as Triple N-Back and Arithmetic N-Back. It also includes features such as statistics tracking, graphs and easy configurability.
n-back  games  tools  cognition  software  learning  beinghuman  from delicious
june 2011 by wrrn
Susan Sontag: An Interview
I am astonished and disheartened by the very subjective view of the world that most people have, whereby they reduce everything to their own personal concerns and involvements.
photography  art  writing  culture  society  history  Sontag  beinghuman  from delicious
may 2011 by wrrn
Nerdy Day Trips - tell us about yours, we'll build an archive #nerdytrips - bengoldacre - secondary blog
I am a very big fan of nerdy day trips, from Sea Forts to abandoned nuclear bunkers, dead victorian racecourses, roads that are falling into the ground, narrow gauge railways that take you to a power station, wherever. I like decaying infrastructure, terrifying modernity,
uk  london  geo  travel  history  beinghuman  from delicious
april 2011 by wrrn
Law as a Complex System: Updated Reading List – April 2011 | Computational Legal Studies™
law  sytems  theory  computing  network-theory  information-theory  beinghuman  from delicious
april 2011 by wrrn
US Uncut Gets AP to Run Story on GE's Supposed $3.2B Gift to America | techPresident
the AP and several publications fell for a hoax email this morning that announced GE's plans to mark tax day by sending $3.2 billion to the U.S. Treasury because the company felt bad about not paying federal taxes.
dissent  protest  media  systems  beinghuman  thepropagandasarecoming  from delicious
april 2011 by wrrn
Wanderlust
Wanderlust is an experimental location-based storytelling platform.
geo  locationaware  storytelling  narrative  beinghuman  from delicious
april 2011 by wrrn
Welcome — Developer Support Handbook
I wrote this handbook to document what I’ve learnt about developer support over 4 years in Google Developer Relations. If you care about the success of your APIs and your developer community, then this handbook is for you.
collaboration  tools  ideas  methodology  community  beinghuman  from delicious
march 2011 by wrrn
The School of Life : The Two Approaches to Well-Being
As a sort of happy medium between these two opposites, we hear about the importance of combining Kelsey’s narrative approach to life with Halliwell’s ‘resting-in-the-moment’ approach
beinghuman  knowledge  information  culture  human  society  psychology  from delicious
march 2011 by wrrn
The School of Life : Tom Chatfield on Living with Technology
this means seeing technologies for what they are: contingent, diverse human creations, with individual economic and political stories behind them. We can and should attempt to do more than simply living with them – we should aim to live with them well
technology  humancomputer  human  health  beinghuman  culture  from delicious
march 2011 by wrrn
Data Science Toolkit
A collection of the best open data sets and open-source tools for data science, wrapped in an easy-to-use REST/JSON API with command line, Python and Javascript interfaces. Available as a self-contained VM or EC2
data-mining  information  tools  beinghuman  connectionmachine  from delicious
march 2011 by wrrn
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