marc böhlen: glass bottom float. The Glass Bottom Float (GBF) is a floating public robot with the mission of making the critical assessment of recreational water quality a transparent and participatory experience W.G Sebald might have appreciated. GBF cruises along a beach shore, and offers itself as a resting spot in places it deems… Continue reading marc böhlen: glass bottom float
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marc böhlen: advanced perception chickens & robot
marc böhlen: advanced perception. Advanced Perception ( 1999 – 2000 ) early animal machine interaction experiments This project was an early experiment in mixing machines and animal societies. Three chickens, Rhode Island Red hens, were held in a spacious cage together with a mobile robot for 60 days. The robot was programmed to share the… Continue reading marc böhlen: advanced perception chickens & robot
Blog | The Shape of Data | Exploring the geometry behind machine learning, data mining, etc.
Blog | The Shape of Data | Exploring the geometry behind machine learning, data mining, etc..
Douglas Rushkoff on Ed Snowden & PRISM
Douglas Rushkoff – Blog – CNN: Ed Snowden – Human Hero Intervenes on Machine Logic. Yet it wasn’t just fear keeping people from talking about the growing cyber-surveillance state, but a sense of inevitability. This is just how technology evolves – at least when it’s uncontested. Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type… Continue reading Douglas Rushkoff on Ed Snowden & PRISM
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
Cells as living calculators
Cells as living calculators – MIT News Office.
MIT engineers have created synthetic biology circuits that can perform analog computations such as taking logarithms and square roots in living cells.
OpenWorm
OpenWorm aims to develop a fully digital lifeform – a virtual nematode – in a completely open source manner.
OpenWorm raises fascinating questions about what we mean when we say something is alive. If and when this project succeeds in modeling the worm successfully, we’ll be faced with a new and fascinating concept to think with: a virtual organism. Imagine downloading the worm and running it in a virtual petri dish on your computer. What, exactly, will you be looking at? Will you consider it to be alive? What would convince you?
Perhaps creations like the digital C. elegans will start to break down our binary conception of the matter in the world as either living or not living. We’ll discover that we can create systems that exist in-between these two spheres, or that certain aspects of life as we know it are not required to meet our definition of being alive.
Article with contextual refs: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/is-this-virtual-worm-the-first-sign-of-the-singularity/275715/
Paper on Monoaminergic Orchestration of Motor Programs in a Complex C. elegans Behavior
Protected: The Internet of Living Things
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The Signal & The Noise -Nate Silver
A Life in AdWords, Algorithms & Data Exhaust. Interview with Erica Scourti.
Ontologies – Data Mining, Datatypes, Emotion,
Ontobee: A web server aimed to facilitate ontology visualization, query, and development. Ontobee provides a user-friendly web interface for displaying the details and its hierarchy of a specific ontology term. Meanwhile, Ontobee provides a RDF source code for the particular web page, which supports remote query of the ontology term and theSemantic Web. Ontology Development… Continue reading Ontologies – Data Mining, Datatypes, Emotion,
Cow herd tracking in real time
Cowsourcing: tracking the health of the herd in real time (Wired UK). Zebra Technologies Corporation and GEA Farm Technologies have developed Cow View for tracking location (to 30cm) and behaviour.
Richard Adams on Science Fiction and Data
Slide deck of talk about data and SF. Some useful refs: Asimov’s The Foundation Series, which contains the idea of psychohistory (Psychohistory* is a fictional science in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation universe which combines history, sociology, etc., and mathematical statistics to make general predictions about the future behavior of very large groups of people), and the… Continue reading Richard Adams on Science Fiction and Data
The Internet Archive
Incredible video on how and what the Internet Archive archive. Huge, huge data collections. Internet Archive on Vimeo.
Big, Small, Open Data Definitions
Big Data Definition – MIKE2.0, the open source methodology for Information Development Small Data – by Steve Coast (Open Street Map) What is Open Data? – The ODI Open Definition – OKFN http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/bigdata/ – IBM Big Data – four dimensions: Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Veracity.
MacroData and MicroData
Noted on Big and Small data, and why we aren’t following micro/macro naming conventions? In my view Micro Data tells us about the minutiae of life, the plot of an ant, a single twitter user, a packets route to a remote server. Micro gives us a story from a specific POV, and the context is… Continue reading MacroData and MicroData
Euclid’s Data
EUCLID’S DATA is the first in order of the books written by the ancient geometers to facilitate and promote the method of resolution or analysis. In the general, a thing is said to be given which is either actually exhibited, or can be found out, that is which is either known by hypothesis or that… Continue reading Euclid’s Data