“Despite all my rage, I’m still just a mouse in a maze…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9_AEVQ_p74
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Some connections: Shannon’s MS advisor at MIT was Vannevar Bush (As We May Think). Shannon, in turn, was the PhD advisor of Bert (PARC, Sun, BBN) and Ivan (“father of computer graphics”, Sketchpad, &c) Sutherland. Ivan co-founded and co-ran the the program at Utah that produced Alan Kay (Smalltalk, &c), Jim Clark (3D graphics, SGI, Netscape), John Warnock (postscript, Adobe), Gouraud and Phong (3D graphics/shading pioneers), &c.
One of the most important things we make is the next generation!
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“I have always pursued my interests without much regard for financial value or value to the world.”
[#]ClaudeShannon
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1 and 3 from the bonus list are more important than 6 and 7 from the main list…
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/01/22/the-7-most-influential-papers-in-computer-science-history/
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“When the citizens and leaders of seemingly stable democracies took that stability for granted, they mostly ignored democracy’s suppurating underbelly: the systematic economic inequalities, the groups that consistently lost out under it, and the many opportunities that it offered to game the system.”
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/68/the-new-libertarian-elitists/
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“What I want to discuss with you here is how to solve problems using monads in the Scheme programming language. So a 5-minute introduction is provided that avoids category theory and tries to keep explanations grounded in the realm of practical computer programming.”
https://tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/articles/scheme-monads.html
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"I started writing melodies as a kid, walking to school and back, and it just always was like my way of coping or dealing with the world. It never was, for me, something that was supposed to exist in the rest of the world or with friends or in school or in the charts or record sales…"
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/bjork-on-creativity-as-an-ongoing-experiment/
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And the source code to the function above…
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(hilbert-curve 0 0 800 0 0 800 5)
[#]clojure
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And here’s a musical sketch I composed as a tribute to Lynch some years ago, the cover image of which is a photo of Berlin’s Landwehrkanal in winter that I pixel sorted with #clojure code.
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“Love is the name in the wind
The wind blows through the trees and stars
We make a wish to be together
This night when we dream together
We'll remember
When we dream together
The big dream”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxEk44Zj5Kw
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This mini-documentary about David Lynch making one of my favorite records of recent years is great, and I have seldom felt so utterly in agreement with any statement as this one:
"All the different outlets are important to me, all the different art forms."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfR_1HiMOY8
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Just saw the German premier of Gary Hustvit’s generative remix documentary about Brian Eno last night. It was fantastic. Very much recommended if you get a chance to catch a performance. (I say “performance” because ~70% of it is different every time.)
https://www.hustwit.com/eno
The generative cinema system was coded by my friend Brendan Dawes, whose other work is also worth your time:
https://brendandawes.com
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“Certum quod factum”
(“One is certain only of what one builds”)
— #GiambattistaVico, presumably regarding library dependencies…
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I’ve known several people who tried meditation many times without success until picking up an app like Headspace, so it really pleases me to see that a non-profit in the Netherlands has developed a free and open source meditation app called Medito:
https://meditofoundation.org
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Everything is path dependent https://toot.cat/@zkat/113824060595313990
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An alternative (and much more CPU efficient) approach to something like reaction diffusion that uses only triangles.
[#]Genuary #TrianglesAndNothingElse #Clojure
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Written 20 years ago, feeling fresh today for no reason in particular.
https://jackrusher.com/journal/playing-the-game.html
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“The level of hype about AI, Machine Learning and Robotics completely distorts people’s understanding of reality. It distorts where VC money goes, always to something that promises impossibly large payoffs […] It distorts what young researchers work on as they do not want to be seen as old fashioned even when the current hyped topic is sort of dumb.”
https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2025-january-01/
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Electron micrograph of a… naw, it’s a rendering of a vector field coded in #clojure.
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