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"The B in Benoît B. Mandelbrot stand for Benoît B. Mandelbrot."

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:01:59 +0300

“The B in Benoît B. Mandelbrot stand for Benoît B. Mandelbrot.”

- 13 Math Jokes That Every Mathematician Finds Absolutely Hilarious - Business Insider

"German software company SAP says it hopes to recruit hundreds of people with autism, saying they..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:42:25 +0300

“German software company SAP says it hopes to recruit hundreds of people with autism, saying they have a unique talent for information technology. The firm said that by 2020, 1% of its global workforce of 65,000 employees would be people with autism.”

- BBC News - SAP in autism recruitment drive

"The D-Wave computer that Lockheed has bought uses a different mathematical approach than competing..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:31:56 +0300

“The D-Wave computer that Lockheed has bought uses a different mathematical approach than competing efforts. In the D-Wave system, a quantum computing processor, made from a lattice of tiny superconducting wires, is chilled close to absolute zero. It is then programmed by loading a set of mathematical equations into the lattice. The processor then moves through a near-infinity of possibilities to determine the lowest energy required to form those relationships. That state, seen as the optimal outcome, is the answer.”

- Lockheed Martin Harnesses Quantum Technology - NYTimes.com

Rhizome | Performance GIFs 1: Curator's Introduction

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:26:33 +0300

Rhizome | Performance GIFs 1: Curator's Introduction

stml: Atomic town family pre-detonation (via...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:12:09 +0300

stml:

Atomic town family pre-detonation (via thesoftanonymous).

(via ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Ruins of Super Science | Atlas Obscura)

I am staying on Tumblr, but...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:10:34 +0300

paulmasonnews:

If they try to own my data, or integrate it with any other Yahoo service, I will leave. Also if there is any attempt to censor others, or if the cat pictures stop

brucesterling: *Face recognition algorithm

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:06:49 +0300

brucesterling:

*Face recognition algorithm

The man who 'nearly broke the internet'

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:05:52 +0300

The man who 'nearly broke the internet':

marsav:

Sven Olaf Kamphuis is accused of global cybercrime, but Spanish police found him in a squalid flat with his name on the letterbox

When Spanish and Dutch police arrested him they found the flat occupied by a tangle of cables and computer gear. A copy of the science fiction writer Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver lay on the unmade bed.

Kamphuis displayed a Napoleonic sense of grandeur. “He claimed he had diplomatic status,” said the Spanish police officer who led the operation, but asked not to be named. “He said he was the telecommunications minister and foreign minister of a place called the Cyberbunker Republic. He didn’t seem to be joking.”

"In every kitchen tent there was a person or persons who made themselves the food-safety nazis, and..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:36:00 +0300

“In every kitchen tent there was a person or persons who made themselves the food-safety nazis, and everyone tended to acquiesce to them. I’ve heard about rapes, murder, thieving, knife fights, beatings, psychotic breaks, any number of human horrors, provable and not, occurring in the camps. But I never heard of a case of food poisoning that came out of an Occupy camp’s kitchen.”

- http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/12/a-eulogy-for-occupy/all/

"Alec Empire: there are no badly behaved rockstars anymore…not really… AE: I see it like this….sales..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:34:23 +0300

“Alec Empire: there are no badly behaved rockstars anymore…not really…
AE: I see it like this….sales are so low that everyone fears about losing more sales…that’s why most musicians don’t speak out anymore..offending a potential fan can’t be afforded
quinn_: AE ah, the blanding of everything.
AE: the music industry reacted in a very conservative way to the changes
• quinn_ kind of misses the old days when rappers shot each other
anon 4: LOL
AE: yes, those types (haha ) of people don’t work in music anymore…
anon 4: for good reason
anon 4: they’re dead.
quinn_: details.”

- http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/atari-teenage-riot-anonymous/all

"But what if we reached for the language of myth and magic to describe Pepper Spray Cop? What if,..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:46:48 +0300

“

But what if we reached for the language of myth and magic to describe Pepper Spray Cop?
What if, instead, we say his sin was so shocking that it scarred the collective dream of the net, that it reverberated so widely it was heard from heaven to hell, pressed its way into the imaginative ocean, from Guernica to Star Wars? We can call it more, we can call it a moment where the net collectively dreamed of police brutality, and the networked creatures were ever so slightly changed. A new signal received, a new wariness, perhaps undreampt of yet by any particular network creature, but at the very least latent for all.

We could say more… we can say the net reared back and laughed, horrified, and cursed him. It placed on him a terrible form of one of its many kinds of fame, such that everywhere he goes in life, all he will be known for is his inescapable moment, like some ancient greek disfigured by the gods. In this, haven’t we said many more true things than if we counted the number of pepper spray cops, or remarked how they were made, or even the apparent mindstates of those who made them?

”

- ACM Web Science talk, as written | Quinn Said

"What makes the SCUM Manifesto brilliant isn’t its originality, but its total derivativeness. It..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:45:21 +0300

“What makes the SCUM Manifesto brilliant isn’t its originality, but its total derivativeness. It echoes countless other manifestos, analyses, philosophical tracts, medical text books, theological arguments, and so on — but from high status men. Many of these men are still regarded with near worship today, like Freud and Kipling. SCUM bears the impression of Charles Dickens, and St Thomas Aquinas. It has more than passing similarities to the ideas of Confucius and the holy texts of the Hindu faith. It’s just that it’s pointed up the power chain, instead of down. These ideas about inferiority, genetic, intellectual, and spiritual, aren’t new. They’ve been used as justifications to deny meaningful lives to women and low status men by the billions for centuries. I want to point that out again: billions of people for thousands of years.”

- Placing the SCUM Manifesto in Historical Context | Quinn Said

brucesterling: *Soviet Hippies of Estonia in the 1970s, the...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:16:44 +0300

brucesterling:

*Soviet Hippies of Estonia in the 1970s, the museum show.

http://hipid.ee/?page_id=92

*Of course I went.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/8733428742/

new-aesthetic: “An ode to the journey of ó on a shipping label”...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:15:54 +0300

new-aesthetic:

“An ode to the journey of ó on a shipping label” found at http://i.imgur.com/4J7Il0m.jpg, via @shyhoof.

gaila, baigiasi tokie laikai

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:15:12 +0300

gaila, baigiasi tokie laikai

"Additionally, we present spectra of the night sky in Vienna, taken with a 0.8m telescope. The goal..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:30:09 +0300

“Additionally, we present spectra of the night sky in Vienna, taken with a 0.8m telescope. The goal of these spectroscopic measurements was to identify the main types of light sources and the spectral lines which cause the light pollution in Vienna. It turned out that fluorescent lamps are responsible for the strongest lines of the night sky above Vienna (e.g. lines at 546 nm and at 611 nm).”

- [1304.7716] Night sky photometry and spectroscopy performed at the Vienna University Observatory

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:13:25 +0300

(via Polish cold war neon - in pictures | Art and design |...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:47:45 +0300

(via Polish cold war neon - in pictures | Art and design | guardian.co.uk)

"Published a few years after Darwin’s Origin of Species (1855), this humorous sketch was part of the..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:44:01 +0300

“Published a few years after Darwin’s Origin of Species (1855), this humorous sketch was part of the first wave of parodies of the famous figural representation of humanity’s evolution from primate ancestors.”

- Grecian Bend: A laughable fashion trend from the 1860s

Edward Tufte: Pioneer Space Plaque Redesign

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:52:56 +0300

Edward Tufte: Pioneer Space Plaque Redesign:

stml: