Zephyr_Nova Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 https://projectgucciberg.mschfmag.com/?fbclid=IwAR12XECXq_GcqoecC7U_3W80zQHFmJiakXLjwKPFHSM-YSCqxY-m76A97IE 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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exitonly Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 next they'll tell us about landline phones 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 It's faster as long as you don't use Comcast. I use ethernet for my main computer because the connection is so tenuous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 https://artsandculture.google.com/project/music-makers-and-machines 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iococoi Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 holy shitp http://www.hisutton.com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 that's the rest of my workday ruined, thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limo Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 3000 men (and 1 woman), more than a dozen ships and 1.5 million empty beer bottles dumped overboard: the story of the merchant vessels that got stuck for years in the Great Bitter Lake section of the Suez Canal as a result of the Six Day War. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/great-bitter-lake-association/ *Awesome* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iococoi Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcher_effect Spoiler 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iococoi Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Quote Browse through pics & details in the museum of more than 900 handheld and tabletop games, from the 70s and 80s. http://electronicplastic.com 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months Quote Then, on the eighth day, they spied a miracle on the horizon. A small island, to be precise. Not a tropical paradise with waving palm trees and sandy beaches, but a hulking mass of rock, jutting up more than a thousand feet out of the ocean. These days, ‘Ata is considered uninhabitable. But “by the time we arrived,” Captain Warner wrote in his memoirs, “the boys had set up a small commune with food garden, hollowed-out tree trunks to store rainwater, a gymnasium with curious weights, a badminton court, chicken pens and a permanent fire, all from handiwork, an old knife blade and much determination.” While the boys in Lord of the Flies come to blows over the fire, those in this real-life version tended their flame so it never went out, for more than a year. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milkface Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 In this world you either become a smart fella or a fart smeller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iococoi Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 Quote Nurse Mallory Wilson prepares a blue tongued lizard (Tiliqua sp) for an X-ray 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Mathematicians Find a New Class of Digitally Delicate Primes Michael Filaseta, of the University of South Carolina, has helped prove the existence and extensiveness of “widely digitally delicate” prime numbers — each is so sensitive that changing any of its infinite digits makes it composite. Here, his sweatshirt lists the first 20 digitally delicate primes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
may be rude Posted April 8, 2021 Author Share Posted April 8, 2021 (edited) https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/nirvana-kurt-cobain-ai-song-1146444/ In Computero: Hear How AI Software Wrote a ‘New’ Nirvana Song Quote ... For the Lost Tapes project, Magenta analyzed the artists’ songs as MIDI files, which works similarly to a player-piano scroll by translating pitch and rhythm into a digital code that can be fed through a synthesizer to recreate a song. After examining each artist’s note choices, rhythmic quirks, and preferences for harmony in the MIDI file, the computer creates new music that the staff could pore over to pick the best moments. “The more MIDI files you input, the better,” O’Connor says. “So we took 20 to 30 songs from each of our artists as MIDI files and broke them down to just the hook, solo, vocal melody or rhythm guitar and put those through one at a time. If you put whole songs through, [the program] starts to get really confused on what [it’s] supposed to sound like. But if you just have a bunch of riffs, it’ll put out about five minutes of new AI-written riffs, 90 percent of which is really bad and unlistenable. So you start listening through and just finding little moments that are interesting.” ... this is really interesting. these things are being marketed as a novelty, like counterfeits of the artists. but this isn't a nirvana song, it's a song by the team that used AI to create it. this is a new tool for composition. it seems like right now it's ML engineers geeking out who are cooking up the machine learning tunes that have been put out recently, but eventually this methodology will be incorporated by some real composers. you know ae and afx must be thinking about it at least. even aside from melodic structures or rhythms, i think ML could be used as a kind of production tool. like when you put an image through deep dream, it gets a sheen to it. someone put scorcese's the irishman through ML and it looked more realistic. maybe it could be used to clean up tracks that have issues or fill in gaps. there must be potential for effects VSTs... Edited April 8, 2021 by very honest 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iococoi Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 slightly Quote Robert Wills introduces the amazing hardware and software that made up the Apollo Guidance Computer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drillkicker Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 On 4/5/2021 at 7:12 PM, Nebraska said: Mathematicians Find a New Class of Digitally Delicate Primes Michael Filaseta, of the University of South Carolina, has helped prove the existence and extensiveness of “widely digitally delicate” prime numbers — each is so sensitive that changing any of its infinite digits makes it composite. Here, his sweatshirt lists the first 20 digitally delicate primes. Where to cop that shirt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Great, I was just thinking I need more shirts that no one understands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56660644 Exoskeletons getting cheap could be cool as fuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlisuite Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 On 4/10/2021 at 8:42 AM, iococoi said: slightly If you're interested, a couple of folks have been restoring the AGC. There's a whole series of videos about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr_Nova Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 On 4/1/2021 at 4:26 PM, Braintree said: The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months WTF @ the grown ass men in this photo being ages 13-16. Did Hollywood cast this runaway mission? What is going on. You can't tell me with a straight face that one of these guys is 13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 45 minutes ago, Zephyr_Nova said: WTF @ the grown ass men in this photo being ages 13-16. Did Hollywood cast this runaway mission? What is going on. You can't tell me with a straight face that one of these guys is 13. People used to age much faster as witnessed by the 80s footballers aging badly twitter https://twitter.com/80sAging 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iococoi Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Zephyr_Nova said: WTF @ the grown ass men in this photo being ages 13-16. Did Hollywood cast this runaway mission? What is going on. You can't tell me with a straight face that one of these guys is 13. they do look younger here : 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr_Nova Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Good find! Still look 25 to me, but I'm tiny with no visible musculature, so maybe any bigger dude with an athletic build looks old to me... especially in black and white film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
may be rude Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 4 hours ago, Zephyr_Nova said: WTF @ the grown ass men in this photo being ages 13-16. Did Hollywood cast this runaway mission? What is going on. You can't tell me with a straight face that one of these guys is 13. photo's from 68, 3 years after the shipwreck, per the caption. also 6 boys were shipwrecked and that photo includes them with some others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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