Miles dropped a email about kandid . It sounds interesting and I may try it out later after some other things have been done on my giant to do list. But my reason for blogging has to with how this reminds me of apps on my old 16bit machine. At the time there was little way to get the real feel for maths in art. It took too long to do fractials for example. I remember playing with L-systems and it would take hours to build a highly populated L-system. However even then I enjoyed the results. If you remember the old cubicgarden background, that was built using L-systems.
Tag: science
More digital shoplifting of sorts
I almost went online there and then to check if Amazon had the book cheaper than the WHSmiths in Gatwick Airport. So tempted to buy it at 16 pounds, good thing i never…as I would have been kicking myself now.
String theory explained
Ok I'm looking forward to watching this documentary on Channel 4. I'm hoping it will explain string theroy in a simple way, so I can show others it and have disscussion afterwards. It worked with Carl and time travel, i explained the theory and showed him the channel 4 documentary and he finally got it and we could then have a leveled discussion about time travel.
Didnt know the tv show was presentated by Brian Greene, the author of the book I was actually thinking of buying a while back
I was kind of happy with the documentary, but would have liked to see the others first. It wasnt as good as the Time travel one but good enough to follow and understand. Very interesting concept M-theory or Super String theory, will have to wait for cern to finish there project before I can say for sure i'm converted.
Blunkett outlines ID card plans
Seen this on the BBC. And ok things are getting stupid in the UK, more comments when I got time…
Man vs Machine
Been following the new Garry Kasparov chess match.
Rage Against the (Chess) Machine. Oh my goodness there is some seriously smart moves going down on both sides, even the super computer is pausing for thinking time. Even sarahs friend birch is watching it live but under the x3dchess url while i'm watching under the wired chess game url. Oh loving some of the comments Wow, is X3D Fritz forcing the draw? Can silicon know fear?
The game is over officially result of game one is a draw! The score after game one is .5-.5. The next game is Thursday November 13th 6pm GMT.
The Universe as a Hologram
Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm?
Ok this will fry your goose, i was flicking through matrix fan sites when I came across the above link. He's the main part of it…
Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart.
Then more work was done David bohm from the university of London, and came to the conclusion that objective reality does not exist
. And that the universe is just a deeply connected hologram.
Time travel
I have always been interested in the time. But something kinda of shocked me yesterday at the party I had at my house. Miles didnt believe time travel was at all possible. Hummm i thought, thats odd… All the things I have read of the years of my life have pointed in me in a direction that were not far off. David seemed very interested in why I was a believer and Miles not. Not obvioulsy it was a party and not everyone wanted to hear a ramble about time travel at 1am, but I started thinking of ways to prove certain theorys right.
The one which came up alot was is there anything faster than light?
Now I would say no, based on all i know but black hole theroy is still along way from being solved. Anyway, I started thinking again about a quick way to sum up all what I had learned over the years. Then I remembered the documentary from channel4 which pretty much covers the major areas including quantium theory in a simple way. I need to make a handy version available for others one day soon. Maybe Mpeg4 and stick it online?
Interesting enough however, Miles thought I was romancing the idea of time travel than really believing in it.
Could it be true than back to the future, William sleator and others like it have spelled out theorys which convently fit into the frame? I believe not but hey what do i know? maybe little but theres no douht that people are taking Prof Ronald L. Mallett seriously. His paper on the ringed laser system that he has built in fantastic. I highly recommend listening to Prof Mallett here in real audio. Also found the old link about the reality of a time machine. Oh and I know this is old but worth listening to also.
Needing to Know
Found this while looking around the guardian site tonight too, Talk Time: Dave Green. Co founder of NTK.
Nico macdonald uncovered
I came across Nico Macdonald's website the other day. If you dont know who he is, I know him through his AIGA design talks he hosts every month which I usually attend.
Anyway it would seem he doesnt have a blog but some very interesting articles to do with social aspects of technology.
Started to read The future of weblogging which seems to be either inspired or otherway around by the event I attended a while back gone to the blogs. Where I do remember Nico also being too. The dangers of social engineering in design. also was a good read. I also got seduced away by some very tasty links in Nicos communication section, which your'll see more of in later blogs.
Oh yeah, I also noted something interesting in the facilitation section. Its basicly a small events-ish calendar almost in the same form of Louise Fergusons. Except it seems to be written in a more structured way. Just by looking at the code quickly I think I could write a xsl to transform the events out of that page into icals. But I'll have to check it some other time. Too busy reading Guardian arcticles.
Open source democracy?
Me, Dave and Lucas got our butts to the talk quite late yesterday. And were hit by the instant heatwave in the ICA's Nash room. Goodness me, has no one ever heard of opening a window or a door before?
Anyway the talk was around douglas rushkoff's book he wrote for Demos. I had never heard of Demos before, but sure have heard of Douglas Rushkoff from the days of Rave.Anyway here's a few things I wrote down while listening to the talk.
- The internet shook off miltary, government and now business constraints over its time.
- All developments of the internet have been done for non profit in a gift economy.
- Our reality relies on software more than hardware – clever, as in software is man made.
- We can write the words that we live. Rather than listen to the ones we have been told.
- We have been taught to deal with narratives in the same way, start – middle – end. Revolutions are circluar.
- recruitiing people to narratives, is pointless
- Technophobia = People scared of there own power
- The media aims to exclude and divide, a lonely person is more likely to buy jeans if there told there acceptable with them.
- 92% of kids don’t want to re-program lego mindstorms
- A movement is a bad idea, easy target for the media to vilianfy
- Media can’t brand a mixture a non-movement.
- Emergence accepts the possibility that were nothing and that we may change that
- Effort should be spent on development rather than creating a movement
- Changing direction causes confusion and keeps businesses and the media guessing
- Courage in the moment, small steps and tweaks have profound effects
- Do rather than respond
- The dot.com era was a pyramid scheme – never thought of it like that, but makes sense
- Is google god?
- Finland is the most trustworthy nation in the world
- Governments need to get a grip on the digital divide
- Once you have access to the tools your relationship with the narrative changes
Anyway I've started reading the book which rushkoff wrote and its a good read so far. Also started looking at the Demos site and Rushkoff's own. Some good content on there which I know I'll be reading back and forth between college and home for the next month or so.