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Four or Five Chess Machines

The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind. - Arpad Elo, 1962. When Teeny and ...

From GREG J. SMITH, Serial Consign,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Marcel Duchamp,  John Cage,  Ryerson,   Israel Gelfand,  Ivan Pavlov

Ant Scott & Iman Moradi Interview

A month ago I posted a glowing review of Glitch: Designing Imperfection, an impressive collection of glitch art compiled by Iman Moradi and Ant Scott. As a follow up to the review, Iman, Ant and I had the following exchange in which we discussed the ...

From GREG J. SMITH, Serial Consign,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Bob Ross,  John Berger,  Chris Murphy,  Bridget Riley

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Jer Thorp takes two articles about head injury in the NFL (penned by Jeanne Marie Laskas and Malcolm Gladwell) and creates a Processing tool for mapping the language used within these texts. Thorp uses this visual analysis (pictured above) to ...

From GREG J. SMITH, Serial Consign,  15 Nov 2009
Related Topics: NFL,  Malcolm Gladwell

Defense: Letterman extort plot just a 'hard-driven' book deal

David Letterman admits to affairs with several staffers on the Oct. 6 telecast of his show. Should Robert Haldeman have been allowed to peddle a tell-all book about David Letterman's affairs? Prosecutors violated a CBS producer's free-speech ...

From GREG B. SMITH, New York Daily News,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: David Letterman,  Robert Joseph Halderman,  Gerald Shargel

Ctrl-V: The Defense

With vague admiration and vague horror he observed how awesomely, how elegantly and how flexibly, move by move, the images of his childhood had been repeated (country house … town … school … aunt), but he still did not quite understand why this ...

From GREG J. SMITH, Serial Consign,  9 Nov 2009

RevMinds III

A thematic recap of the material I posted during my second (and final) month hosting the Revolutionary Minds Think Tank blog: Edward Einhorn's excitement over advanced projection technology and Tesla coils in theatre saw me reminisce about Artificiel's ...

From GREG J. SMITH, Serial Consign,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Bruce Sterling,  Wikipedia

...And That's A Wrap! [Revolutionary Minds Think Tank]

The vanguard of science has always been populated with young visionaries, those individuals who are motivated by impossibility and undaunted by failure, who operate and lead in a world in which cross-pollination and the synthesis of ideas are the norm. ...

From GREG J. SMITH, ScienceBlogs,  3 Nov 2009

A POWEr-ful Performance [Revolutionary Minds Think Tank]

To be reductive, POWEr is electronic music in the purest sense. The project utilizes a custom made Tesla coil as the driving force in a dynamic musical performance. This concert was completely improvised and set out to explore the possibilities of ...

From GREG J. SMITH, ScienceBlogs,  1 Nov 2009

Building Bridges (and knowing when not to) [Revolutionary Minds Think Tank]

Even in my small area of astrobiology, the design of a single mission to find habitable planets orbiting other stars requires substantial input from the studies of astrophysics, space communications, space flight technology, optics, materials science, ...

From GREG J. SMITH, ScienceBlogs,  31 Oct 2009

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One of the most prominent websites on earth, WhiteHouse.gov (pictured above) was just relaunched and is now running on the Drupal content management system. While this transition has garnered extensive media coverage (some clueless), it is Tim O'Reilly ...

From GREG J. SMITH, Serial Consign,  31 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Tim O'Reilly,  Drupal,  White House,  University of California, Los Angeles

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