tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41937537004667896452024-03-14T11:05:05.197-07:00swarmswarmsjwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-72236752215851582192011-04-11T08:26:00.000-07:002011-04-11T08:30:11.642-07:00May I have the next algorithm?<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lyZQPjUT5B4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />The folks at Sapientia University have blended sorting algorithms and folk dance, go <a href= "http://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/2255-sorting-algorithms-as-dances.html" target= "_blank">here</a> for more.jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-10143185329103846252011-04-10T21:26:00.000-07:002011-04-10T21:29:29.685-07:001869 Harvard entrance examfrom <a href= "http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/10/230222/Could-You-Pass-Harvards-Entrance-Exam-From-1869" target="_blank">slashdot</a><br />"The New York Times remembers back to when <a href= "http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/remembering-when-college-was-a-buyers-bazaar/" target= "_blank">'college was a buyer's bazaar'</a> and digs up 19th-century classified ads from Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and others. In competitive efforts to attract students from the limited pool of qualified candidates, applications were taken as late as September for an October freshman class. Vassar offered lush room accommodations. The expectations were high: Latin, Greek, Virgil, Caesar's Commentaries; Harvard's entrance exam from 1869 is posted <a href= "http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvardexam.pdf" target= "_blank">(PDF)</a>. Could any of us pass the exam today?"jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-49842023931766867032011-03-31T20:05:00.000-07:002011-03-31T20:08:25.755-07:00Annie Collinge<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thefoxisblack.com/blogimages//annie-collinge-1.jpeg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 589px; height: 600px;" src="http://thefoxisblack.com/blogimages//annie-collinge-1.jpeg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />I've been shamelessly reposting things from <a href= "http://thefoxisblack.com/" target="_blank">The Fox is Black</a> but you could skip my filtering and spend sometime enjoying their artful curating.jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-13803233890253577742011-03-29T22:18:00.000-07:002011-03-29T22:24:02.138-07:00Jillian Tamakis<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDjwC-5OF6DntBllXMv5lmlb6hYOQG3MhRIJ01vJQQu-GC7C98rfHL-cy4IT6-F6Fj_TumrA-3jPpt47cycZB7Vqbgi4bM51z6lGbHR7wVm2KgOHSmqDNNEdlS7ZWCQ1gfLvqtmLQNpM/s1600/tamaki.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDjwC-5OF6DntBllXMv5lmlb6hYOQG3MhRIJ01vJQQu-GC7C98rfHL-cy4IT6-F6Fj_TumrA-3jPpt47cycZB7Vqbgi4bM51z6lGbHR7wVm2KgOHSmqDNNEdlS7ZWCQ1gfLvqtmLQNpM/s200/tamaki.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589738185207884338" /></a>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-15034065126130470822011-03-29T22:02:00.000-07:002011-03-29T22:09:56.677-07:00Kevin Cyr<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.kevincyr.net/files/gimgs/13_camperkart01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 532px; height: 700px;" src="http://www.kevincyr.net/files/gimgs/13_camperkart01.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-82675025938335688492011-03-23T08:01:00.000-07:002011-03-23T08:04:07.370-07:00Bernard Voita<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.beikey.net/mrs-deane/images/voitaweiss.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 420px; height: 419px;" src="http://www.beikey.net/mrs-deane/images/voitaweiss.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />It's hard to find much on this artist online, image wise but this and a few other photos are very nice. Go <a href= "http://www.flickr.com/photos/readysetinternet/sets/72157623658858572/" target= "_blank">HERE</a> for a flickr set with a few imagesjwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-30116042312324207632011-03-22T03:57:00.000-07:002011-03-22T04:00:18.024-07:00more energy, less dimensions?New Theory suggests that the universe at higher energy/temperatures has less dimensionsjwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-51528662204455994532011-03-22T03:38:00.000-07:002011-03-22T03:40:15.870-07:00Hip-Hop Word Count<iframe frameborder="0" height="410px" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1801076626/the-hip-hop-word-count-a-searchable-rap-almanac/widget/video.html" width="480px"></iframe>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-19935455438311428372011-03-22T03:35:00.000-07:002011-03-22T03:36:33.584-07:00Hilary Pecis<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hilarypecis.com/helo3.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1008px; height: 756px;" src="http://www.hilarypecis.com/helo3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-25803817669847808282011-03-22T03:29:00.000-07:002011-03-22T03:33:20.644-07:00Gregg Fleishman<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.greggfleishman.com/OtherZones/TrinitySil2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 470px; height: 470px;" src="http://www.greggfleishman.com/OtherZones/TrinitySil2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-13952922354686816822011-03-08T12:30:00.000-08:002011-03-08T12:51:14.543-08:00Cheap jammer screws GPSWhich is cool, but now I want a program that will randomize my word use and punctuation/capitalization to avoid <a href= http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/030811-anonymous-email.html">this type of crap.</a> Which I'm pretty sure all started with some nerd who wanted to know which roles Shakespeare performed in his plays. The idea being that the density of word use in the plays he was writing (which we had the dates for) could be cross correlated with the individual characters in the plays being performed (which we had the dates for). Or more precisely, if Juliet really liked the word wherefor, then that word frequency was likely to increase in the play Shakespeare was writing if he was playing that character. <br />Somehow this had something to do with unmasking the anonymous author of Primary Colors but I can't find anything on the web about this. So maybe I or someone else dreamed it up, if you remember details let me know.jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-92060473187391637452011-03-07T22:02:00.001-08:002011-03-07T22:20:09.562-08:00language acquisition, son<object width="512" height="313" id="embedded_player_403c51c54b3eb" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://video.fastcompany.com/plugins/player.swf?v=403c51c54b3eb&p=fc_social"><param name="movie" value="http://video.fastcompany.com/plugins/player.swf?v=403c51c54b3eb&p=fc_social"/><param name="allowfullscreen" value="TRUE"/><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/><param name="base" value="http://video.fastcompany.com"/></object><br /><br />After having recently attended a DARPA conference (STORyNET-<a href= "https://www.fbo.gov/download/891/8911802f6cd71ad614ef78f84d38e0c6/DARPA-SN-11-20.pdf">download pdf describing STORyNET's goals</a>) where the project manager said he would like "individual level narrative stimulus forecasting", or in other words, he would like to know what an individual will do when they hear a story, how narratives will play out in the global theater, the technology above is a little disturbing. <br /><br />At the end of the Fast Company article Deb Roy mentions his new goals and the company he has started to pursue them: <a href= "http://www.bluefinlabs.com/">Bluefin Labs</a>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-931615079474246332011-03-04T20:38:00.000-08:002011-03-04T20:45:13.281-08:00These two images from thefoxisblack<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1vXojVe0LsT5qKJHl7KtZiOpGb2hgOZUKBVB4BneNQr1ox1o2x_sGadGv2qIPs-gcda3808zAIGG2-fzmsIonFIAsR0PK1ZUCD3L_sOozPqa4N1-Zgz2nsBmRwAeTjUBghksw31x2Bdc/s1600/MatteoCibic1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 136px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1vXojVe0LsT5qKJHl7KtZiOpGb2hgOZUKBVB4BneNQr1ox1o2x_sGadGv2qIPs-gcda3808zAIGG2-fzmsIonFIAsR0PK1ZUCD3L_sOozPqa4N1-Zgz2nsBmRwAeTjUBghksw31x2Bdc/s200/MatteoCibic1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580450991431419970" /></a><br />The above terrarium by <a href= "http://www.matteocibic.com/">Matteo Cibic</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFUpVhFTeXE_sIFF1VnA2x9UCCBI1H14RRXSymzlpTcUfouF2Ko68GlOV0fyhN5qzL99MXtXnyCIVlDJIniX2mhjvlDGtwP1dRsSx0YzDva3fDJrdYgHMotapXoCwJIllC2_kjsMY6JUc/s1600/NatsumHayashi1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFUpVhFTeXE_sIFF1VnA2x9UCCBI1H14RRXSymzlpTcUfouF2Ko68GlOV0fyhN5qzL99MXtXnyCIVlDJIniX2mhjvlDGtwP1dRsSx0YzDva3fDJrdYgHMotapXoCwJIllC2_kjsMY6JUc/s200/NatsumHayashi1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580450878491428930" /></a><br />The above photo by <a href= "http://yowayowacamera.com/">Natsumi Hayashi</a>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-20855189737820903932011-03-04T20:20:00.000-08:002011-03-04T20:27:36.718-08:00Luke Painter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lukepainter.ca/images/Woodlot_House_%28Stained_glass%29.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 474px;" src="http://www.lukepainter.ca/images/Woodlot_House_%28Stained_glass%29.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href= "http://www.lukepainter.ca/animation.html">Make Sure to check out the animations</a>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-30833288583548734272011-03-04T20:17:00.000-08:002011-03-04T20:19:02.998-08:00Alex Kisilevich<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://alexkisilevich.com/images/ttpie/g2N0UiyS.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 431px; height: 480px;" src="http://alexkisilevich.com/images/ttpie/g2N0UiyS.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-7369064180008023362011-03-04T08:36:00.001-08:002011-03-04T08:37:23.826-08:00Liam Crockard<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/5164220433_951f1273c0_b.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1024px; height: 805px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/5164220433_951f1273c0_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-60310111078784961202011-03-04T08:30:00.000-08:002011-03-04T08:31:45.159-08:00Mark Stebbins<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://markstebbins.ca/selectedWorks/Stebbins2010-Bits-12x12in.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 840px; height: 840px;" src="http://markstebbins.ca/selectedWorks/Stebbins2010-Bits-12x12in.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-4500735253203319052011-03-03T07:53:00.001-08:002011-03-03T07:58:38.886-08:00social rollercoasterso before some teenager in Russia invented chatroulette, i came up with this less aptly named game description, but imagined it wouldn't work until it could function on smart phones, i still think the timed parameters would make the whole thing better, the idea initially emerged when trying to imagine a way to have online parties with friends in distant locations, the randomness imitating the way people bump into each other in the process of getting another beer, peeing, etc. the below was some kind of futuristic dictionary entry i probably write while high<br /><br />social rollercoaster<br /><br />a. a games show featured on the now defunct NBC that involved an incredibly sophisticated machine for moving people about violently and then putting them in front of other violently moved people, where they would then discuss something or other for 1, 5, or 10 minutes. The rules changed as the show progressed. It still is common to refer to show events and meeting of new people as 'the roll' .<br /><br />b. as part of the media bath introduced with Social Rollercoaster, NBC introduced an online app that allowed people at home to enjoy the game. With rudimentary translation apps and crude graphics between rolls that suggested vertigo, rollers would choose 1, 5, or 10 minute coasts ending abruptly at the assigned time, two rollers would have only a few minutes to decide what to talk about and do it. This spawned over time the birth of the various coasts, tossed up at the edge of clouds, overlapping in an electrical thunderstorm. When Google introduced translatez the app improved quickly as Google assembled massive collections of sounds, sighed, barked, brittly formed, representing the elements of every sound of every language programs evolved, poets and musicians began to hammer together voices, overlapping phenomes, mashing 6 accents into a single sentence, users browsed a plethora of possible translatez. it is impossible to imagine anything before Coasts that compares in the overwhelming influence it has achieved in the behavior of the human.jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-59963363195756642702011-02-26T13:46:00.000-08:002011-02-26T13:48:20.350-08:00Olek<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://agataolek.com/kifp.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 400px;" src="http://agataolek.com/kifp.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-52181314689023393302011-02-26T11:17:00.000-08:002011-02-26T11:19:28.607-08:00Complexity=Melodrama<a href= "http://flowtv.org/2010/03/flow-favorites-quality-television-melodrama-and-cultural-complexity-michael-kackman-university-of-texas-austin/">Quality television melodrama and cultural complexity</a> by Michael Kackman explores the melodramatic tendencies of narrative complexity in contemporary televisionjwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-17096660828903433222011-02-26T11:15:00.000-08:002011-02-26T11:16:06.453-08:00Open Xerox<a href= "https://open.xerox.com/">Open Xerox</a> is the place where you can experiment with technologies being developed in the Xerox labs around the globe.jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-36981414735059835692011-02-22T21:38:00.000-08:002011-02-22T21:39:24.396-08:00Hye Yeon Nam<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/20119651" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/20119651">Kiss Controller</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/hnam">Hye Yeon Nam</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-32964614303320319782011-02-21T19:21:00.000-08:002011-02-21T19:24:40.634-08:00Steve Lambert is the bees kneesSteve Lambert invented <a href= "http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/">SELF CONTROL</a> a program that allows you (on osx) to block access to email and the like (read facebook). Check him outjwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-75570913744405828142011-02-19T20:23:00.001-08:002011-02-19T20:25:46.319-08:00Design Language News<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1611663345"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1273px; height: 2188px;" src="http://www.designlanguage.com/images/11-18-10iPad.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193753700466789645.post-86631404188513801082011-02-19T20:17:00.000-08:002011-02-19T20:18:21.562-08:00Anouk Kruithof<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ymLI4aiFvOA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>jwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04004442256896869910noreply@blogger.com0