MachineMachine /stream - tagged with model http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com "As you can probably imagine, this took some effort to make." http://www.metafilter.com/114058/As-you-can-probably-imagine-this-took-some-effort-to-make "The calculator itself is just over 250x200x100 blocks. It contains 2 6-digit BCD number selectors, 2 BCD-to-binary decoders, 3 binary-to-BCD decoders, 6 BCD adders and subtractors, a 20 bit (output) multiplier, 10 bit divider, a memory bank and additional circuitry for the graphing function." Yes, someone built a working scientific calculator, in Minecraft. ]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:44:41 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/114058/As-you-can-probably-imagine-this-took-some-effort-to-make Minecraft Scientific/Graphing calculator - Sin Cos Tan Log Square root http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgJfVRhotlQ&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:51:21 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgJfVRhotlQ&feature=youtube_gdata “The Shannon and Weaver Model” http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2012/02/20/the-shannon-and-weaver-model//the-shannon-and-weaver-model-the-late-age-of-print “The Shannon and Weaver Model” by Ted Striphas: http://t.co/e8WireZf ]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:51:16 -0700 http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2012/02/20/the-shannon-and-weaver-model//the-shannon-and-weaver-model-the-late-age-of-print Earth project aims to 'simulate everything' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12012082 It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived.

An international group of scientists is aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth - from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international financial transactions or congestion on Milton Keynes' roads.

Nicknamed the Living Earth Simulator (LES), the project aims to advance the scientific understanding of what is taking place on the planet, encapsulating the human actions that shape societies and the environmental forces that define the physical world.

"Many problems we… ]]> Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:50:13 -0700 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12012082 The Limits of Science http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/anthony-gottlieb/limits-science Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration of the fact that gullibility seems to be a disease of other people was provided by Martin Gardner, a great American debunker of pseudoscience, who died this year. In the second edition of his “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science” (1957), Gardner reported that most of the irate letters he received in response to the first edition criticised only one of its 26 chapters and found the rest… ]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:12:00 -0700 http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/anthony-gottlieb/limits-science Myriahedral projection maps of the world http://centripetalnotion.com/2009/12/10/10:21:55/ A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out the continents for easy comparison, or lump together the world’s oceans into one huge mass of water surrounded by coastlines. “Myriahedral projection” was developed by Jack van Wijk, a computer scientist at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. “The basic idea is surprisingly simple,” says van Wijk. His algorithms divide the globe’s surface into small polygons that are unfolded into a flat map, just as a cube can… ]]> Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:50:00 -0700 http://centripetalnotion.com/2009/12/10/10:21:55/ Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source - A scheme for art production and curating? http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/positions-in-flux-panel-3-open.php The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this model be applied to other products such as artworks or even exhibitions? In how far does the open source model differ from other forms of artistic collaboration? Is there a new role model for both the artist and the curator in the future? Which (economic) value and impact has expertise in open source production? How could institutions and organisations respond to this trend? How could institutions and organisations respond to… ]]> Wed, 20 May 2009 09:25:00 -0700 http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/positions-in-flux-panel-3-open.php The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/03/the-next-great-discontinuity-part-one.html

Grapholectic Thought and The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness

(Originally published at 3quarksdaily · Link to Part Two)

“There are things,” Christoph Martin Wieland… contended, “which by their very nature are so dependent upon human caprice that they either exist or do not exist as soon as we desire that they should or should not exist.”…We are, at the very least, reminded that seeing is a talent that needs to be cultivated, as John Berger saliently argued in his popular Ways of Seeing (1972) “…perspective makes the single eye the centre of… ]]> Mon, 04 May 2009 07:17:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/03/the-next-great-discontinuity-part-one.html