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“cyber woman with corn”

(Source: honted, via shreekyspurplehair)

Methane from arctic lakes (cool fireball at 1:16)

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MIT Built a camera that can capturing photons moving across an object (by MITNewsOffice)

thedailywhat:

Well This Is Sufficiently Creepy of the Day: OpenFrameworks developer Arturo Castro shows off his real-time face-swapping technology, created using Kyle McDonald’s ofxFacetracker, Jason Saragih’s facetracker library, and “parts of Kevin Atkinson’s image clone code.”

I have no idea what any of that means, but the result is pretty freakin’ creepy.

In the comments, Castro tells Atkinson he’s currently working on stealing someone’s face in real-time. Falling into the wrong hands in 3… 2…

[h/t: tnw.]

Folklore says if you take any article on wikipedia, and click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, you will eventually end up at Philosophy. Mat Kelcey analyzed every article on wikipedia, and it is mostly true. About 3% of articles don’t make it to philosophy. But the interesting thing to emerge from this data, is that it’s actually a small loop of articles that are at the core of everything on wikipedia. Philosophy is just one of them.

The loop is:

Philosophy -> Reason -> Natural science -> Science -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Information -> Sequence -> Mathematics -> Quantity -> Property (philosophy) -> Modern philosophy -> Philosophy

So by extrapolation, every idea in the entirety of human knowledge is built on this backbone.

If you have an hour to spare, I suggest you watch this excellent video of Douglas Adams speaking at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in 1996. Funny, mind-expanding.

thedailywhat:

Automatic Tattoo Machine of the Day: We’ve seen homemade self-tattooing devices before, but Chris Eckert’s Auto Ink is slicker, and significantly more dystopian:

Auto Ink is a three axis numerically controlled sculpture. Once the main switch is triggered, the operator is assigned a religion and it’s corresponding symbol is tattooed onto the person’s arm. The operator does not have control over the assigned symbol. It is assigned either randomly or through divine intervention, depending on your personal beliefs.

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(Source: thedailywhat)

Internet Culture

In the next decade the term “internet culture” will become completely redundant, we will just say “culture”.

Ahhh, planets Sex b. and Sex c. discovered by one J. Johnson.

tee hee!

MY GOD IT’S FULL OF STARS!

via skycaptainbyrd:falseeeyelashes:nevver:Modcult

13,088,746 people “like” Vin Diesel on facebook.

8 Nov, 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered the x-ray. This is a photo of his wife’s hand.

( Japanese TV is mirth * ∞ )

Voice Recognition

In 2004, Mike Bliss composed a poem about voice recognition. He then read it to voice recognition software on his PC, and rewrote it as recognized.

a poem by Mike Bliss

like a baby, it listens
it can’t discriminate
it tries to understand
it reflects what it thinks you say
it gets it wrong… sometimes
sometimes it gets it right.
One day it will grow up,
like a baby, it has potential
will it go to work?
will it turn to crime?
you look at it indulgently.
you can’t help loving it, can you?
a poem by like myth

like a baby, it nuisance
it can’t discriminate
it tries to oven
it reflects lot it things you say
it gets it run sometimes
sometimes it gets it right
won’t day it will grow bop
Ninth a baby, it has provincial
will it both to look?
will it the two crime?
you move at it inevitably
you can’t help loving it, cannot you?

The real punchline here is that Mike re-ran the experiment in 2008, and after 5 minutes of voice training, the voice recognition got all but 2 words of the original poem correct!

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Excerpted from Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition.

David Lynch on iPhone.

(via ebertchicago)