Nov
5th
Thu
5th
(via youmightfindyourself)
Linear A.
Ancient language, lost to the modern day. Largely undecipherable.
So this got me to thinking . . . what if machines do have a subconscious of their own? What if machines right now are like human babies, which have brains but no way of expressing themselves except screaming (crashing)? What would a machine's subconscious look like? How does it feed off what we give it? If machines could talk to us, what would they say?
- Douglas Coupland, Microserfs
Aug
26th
Wed
26th
(via but does it float)
Outside is pure energy and colorless substance, all of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings
Jun
27th
Sat
27th
jinxthebit:spaceships:iamallface:
James Whistler – Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket.
my neighbors were already setting off bottle rockets last night. then i heard more at 8am this morning.
how much you wanna bet the kids got into them?
WHAT DOES RANDOMNESS LOOK LIKE?
RANDOM WALK asks this question and presents experiments in mathematics and physics, showing the mysterious interaction of chaos and order in randomness.
The project RANDOM WALK simulates randomness in visualizations, which are easy to understand. In this way, it delivers insight into a phenomenon, which has so far remained unexplained.
(Random Walk / Daniel A. Becker)
geek porn on some next level shit.
recommend zooming in and out of the interactive graphs while listening to the new j. dilla.
above: visible patterns put the ‘pseudo’ in pseudorandom number generators. are your online transactions safe?
May
28th
Thu
28th
this guy designed his own 8-bit CPU, then hand-wired a working prototype using wire-wrap pins. then added a keyboard and video, and coded a BASIC implementation to run on it.
“roughly 1250 wires connecting the components, so 2500 individual hand-turned wire wraps.”
clocked at 2MHz, but apparently he figures it could “theoretically go to about 3MHz (untested)”
systems architecture was my favorite course series in school, where the final project was to simulate a MIPS implementation. i often wondered what it would take to build a physical model of that CPU from working parts, and it warms my heart to know someone has actually done so.
May
27th
Wed
27th
pearlsbeforeswine:rocketjumper:inothernews:
CHROMED DOMES An art light display by Brian Eno was projected onto the Sydney Opera House Tuesday. (Sergio Dionisio/AFP-Getty via the Wall St. Journal)
