January 2009
28 posts
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Scientists create logic gate from living neurons →
The gap between our biology and our technology is shrinking.
Jan 31st
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Peter Norvig's review of SICP →
SICP is a computer science book. The name stands for Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Download SICP : http://deptinfo.unice.fr/~roy/sicp.pdf
Jan 31st
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Jan 29th
jresize.py →
I didn’t have imagemagick installed on my computer this morning and had to resize a lot of photos. I wrote this python script to use the Python Image Library to resize a directory of jpg’s, png’s, gif’s or bmp’s.
Jan 28th
Mastodon posted a new song! →
It’s called Divinations. I’m luvin’ it.
Jan 27th
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jradio.py →
This program has a real-life story! I have all of my music on a usb hard drive. I’m such a fan of music my laptop simply can’t contain me. When I use my laptop on the couch I don’t bring the hard drive with me, so I like to listen to internet radio. If I open iTunes, it might discover the hard drive is missing and then reset the preferences for where my music is stored. This...
Jan 27th
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
A thought on the independing tendencies of hard...
I am listening to Aloha this morning. I really dig this band. I tend to want to share things I enjoy or think about as often as possible. Get the idea in the open and people will talk and the best impression of a thought can emerge from the discussion. But what if people don’t have much personal time to embrace things that work as solo efforts. Listening to music, for example. Bands...
Jan 26th
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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ListenTake Five Here’s a little taste of...
Jan 21st
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“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually...”
Jan 19th
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Jan 16th
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WatchWatch
I made this video for one of Shipyards new songs. It’s the first music video I’ve ever done! It’s made with footage from the BBC’s The Root Of All Evil with Richard Dawkins. I hope you enjoy it! This video is available for free from google video : http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=the+root+of+all+evil&emb=0&aq=f#
Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
Robots at War: The New Battlefield →
It sounds like science fic­tion, but it is fact: On the battlefields of Iraq and Afghan­istan, robots are killing America’s ene­mies and sav­ing Ameri­can lives. But today’s Pack­Bots, Preda­tors, and Ravens are rela­tively prim­itive machines. The coming generation of “war-bots” will be im­mensely more sophisti­cated, and their devel­op­ment raises troubling new...
Jan 15th
Jan 15th
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“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” —...”
Jan 14th
My Genome, My Self →
My favorite part of the article is: Today, as the lessons of history have become clearer, the taboo is fading. Though the 20th century saw horrific genocides inspired by Nazi pseudoscience about genetics and race, it also saw horrific genocides inspired by Marxist pseudoscience about the malleability of human nature. The real threat to humanity comes from totalizing ideologies and the denial of...
Jan 14th
Shipyards - Two new songs →
Shipyards has posted two new songs on the myspace page. They are almost finished versions of songs that will be on the EP. These are my two favorite songs.
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
recursive
j d: if cursive ever broke up, the next band should be called recursive
c c: lulz
j d: or a cursive cover band that sings about algorithms instead of heartbreak
c c: would that be adding a meaning to the term "math rock"?
j d: math.rock() SON
Jan 13th
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ListenContract Grenades It was, and still is,...
Jan 13th
Jan 12th
ListenDreaming About Chilin On The Porch I was thinking...
Jan 12th
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J2D2 has arrived!
Here’s my first post.
Jan 12th