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Daniel G  //  Live in NY, work in corporate law, make music on the side.

Jul 14 / 5:15pm

Stephen Colbert Remembers Remembering Michael Jackson | Comedy Central Insider Blog

via ccinsider.comedycentral.com

This is meta-meta-genius. Remember the remembering!

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Jul 11 / 4:17am

Memristors - the future of artificial intelligence?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.600-memristor-minds-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence.html?full=true

Resistance changes depending upon the direction of the current flow, and the change is remembered while the current is off.


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Jul 8 / 4:52pm

Bramilla's Civilization - incredible video art and pop culture extravaganza - at the Standard Hotel in NY

This is displayed in an elevator at the Standard.  A hotel commissioned this?!  Amazing.

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Jul 8 / 9:12am

evolving art and weapons systems for a space combat video games - with an academic paper to explain how it works

This shows the promise of evolutionary programming for use in video game content generation.  Super cool.  And a free game too. 
 
VIDEO:
 
ACADEMIC PAPER:
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Jul 6 / 7:16pm

crazy brains make better music out of mri scans

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327154.500
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Jun 11 / 9:52am

Project Natal = Holodeck 1.0

In a strange turn of events, Microsoft may have out-innovated Nintendo and others.  I predict this is the future of video games, and much more exciting than the Wii to me.
 
 
They are claiming at launch they will have resolution down to the centimeter, which will enable detection of finger movements and so the games themselves could be more complicated like xbox360 games.  Apparently the way it is done without a camera on the opposite side to triangulate actually involves an infrared sensor as well as normal camera.  As a side benefit, this means it should work nearly as well in the dark!
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May 29 / 12:07pm

cookies make terrorists talk

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1901491,00.html?imw=Y
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May 26 / 9:46am

beyond irony - the Conference Board of Canada plagarizes an IIPA report on the topic of digital piracy

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4000/125/
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May 22 / 1:53pm

Obama's detention plan is awful

He is fucking up to even be discussing this as a possibility.
 
Greenwald's questions are crucial - (1) have adequate reasons been given for why accused terrorists cannot be tried in civilian courts, and (2) on what basis do you believe the accused are dangerous if they haven't even been charged, let alone tried?
 
Rachel Maddow's take is also remarkably direct -
 
 

 
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May 21 / 12:37pm

Jon Stewart nails the connection between Don't Ask Don't Tell policy and the politics of torture


http://blog.indecisionforever.com/2009/05/15/jon-stewart-nails-obama-on-dont-ask-dont-tell/
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