Humans Show Empathy for Robots | Human-Robot Interactions | LiveScience. Article about how we empathise with robots – contains refs to studies on monitoring emotional responses. Nice quote near the end: “[Alexander] Reben compared trends in robot development with breeding dogs for companionship. “We have been doing this for millennia,” he said. “I think we’re doing… Continue reading Empathy for Robots
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MathFoundations 18: Geometry – YouTube
MathFoundations 18: Geometry – YouTube. How to begin geometry? What is the correct framework? How to define point, line, circle etc etc?These are some of the issues we will be addressing in this first look at the logical foundations of geometry.This lecture is part of the MathFoundations series, which tries to lay out proper foundations… Continue reading MathFoundations 18: Geometry – YouTube
Emergence and Complexity [video]
Emergence and Complexity . (May 21, 2010) Professor Robert Sapolsky gives a lecture on emergence and complexity. He details how a small difference at one place in nature can have a huge effect on a system as time goes on. He calls this idea fractal magnification and applies it to many different systems that exist… Continue reading Emergence and Complexity [video]
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
Object synchrony
Due to the non static surface the metronomes all sync over a short period of time. This could be a really interesting effect for triggering perceived emergent motion over objects. http://io9.com/5947112/watch-32-discordant-metronomes-achieve-synchrony-in-a-matter-of-minutes
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.
The Algorists
“Who are the algorists?” Simply put, algorists are artists who create art using algorithmic procedures that include their own algorithms. This page presents an account of the origin of this usage and the algorithm serving as the “algorist manifesto”. THE ALGORISTS. & Algorithmic Artl
Thaler’s Creativity Machine
Very loose article that doesn’t tell us what an idea or a dream may comprise, so hard to know if the software is indeed creating them. It’s interesting to see how the software is described – very evocative words, but hard to penetrate any actual meaning. ==== “THE FUTURIST recently spoke with Stephen Thaler, inventor… Continue reading Thaler’s Creativity Machine
Definitions [Animacy, Animism …]
ANIMACY (plural animacies) [wiktionary] (linguistics) The characteristic of a noun, in some languages, that is dependent on its living or sentient nature; this characteristic affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun’s declension etc). ANIMISM [mirriam webster] a doctrine that the vital principle of organic development is immaterial spirit… Continue reading Definitions [Animacy, Animism …]
Heidegger – The Question Concerning Technology
The Question Concerning Technology – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Open Access (QMUL)
http://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2998
Platonic Solids
Platonic Solid — from Wolfram MathWorld. The Platonic solids, also called the regular solids or regular polyhedra, are convex polyhedra with equivalent faces composed of congruent convexregular polygons. There are exactly five such solids (Steinhaus 1999, pp. 252-256): the cube, dodecahedron, icosahedron, octahedron, and tetrahedron, as was proved by Euclid in the last proposition of the Elements. The Platonic solids are sometimes also called “cosmic… Continue reading Platonic Solids
Animism as a Metaphor for Interaction Design | Philip van Allen
These concept videos show connected objects, effectively browsing all at once using different semantic web searches (nostalgic, future-thinking, etc). The use of the word animism is odd, as they are simply device given anthropomorphised descriptions. Animism as a Metaphor for Interaction Design | Philip van Allen.
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
The Asch Paradigm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments Asch Conformity Experiments – where a participant in a small group are swayed to answer questions incorrectly just because everyone else in the group has.
Subtlety & Softness in Kinetic Data-driven Art @ Strata Conference
Slides from Subtlety and Softness in Data-driven Art presented 2nd October 2012 at the O’Reilly Strata Conference: Making Data Work The slides contain data definitions and a data analysis framework developed during a research fellowship co-hosted by Seed Media Group, NY and Queen Mary University of London, summer 2012. Download PDF
Research Archive (Summer 2012)
Links, papers, notes, inspirations from Summer 2012 in NY whilst at Seed Media. translatingdata.wordpress.com