dance dance revolution: Waxy reminds us of the classic Gif Dance Party and directs us to an updated 3D version
colloquium: trippy 1974 poster from UC Berkley announcing a special lecture on artificial intelligence
redundancies: a hauntingly deserted fully automated warehouse operation in Japan
gustatory perception: a museum in Malmo showcasing the world’s most reviled food items invites a conversation on the nature of revulsion and taste (relatedly)
seven square miles: a bird’s eye view of various vistas around the world from the Atlantic’s Alan Taylor
event horizon: a good primer on the project to use the Earth as a giant telescope to image the super-massive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way
uptown spot: a twerking Boston Dynamics’ robot dog challenges us to a dance-off
Wednesday 17 October 2018
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catagories: ๐ธ๐ช, ๐ก, ๐ญ, ๐บ️, ๐ค, food and drink, libraries and museums, networking and blogging
dogs playing poker
The latest addition to Everlasting Blรถrt’s expansive tribute Donald Trump is a piece of artwork that’s actually hanging in the White House—minus the Hieronymus Bosch (previously) background that lends an aesthetic merit not otherwise present.
message received, noted, acted on
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ง, labour, transportation
decorative gourd season
Building off an earlier exercise in training a neural network to conjure up extremely plausible sounding names for craft beer and small batch breweries, Janelle Shane (previously here and here) brilliantly tweaked the naming conventions slightly to infuse the results with pumpkin spice and other seasonal trappings. Here are some of our favourites but they whole beer menu is definitely worth sampling:
Bog Porter
Winter Winter This Dead Ale
Warmer Hollow
Ale Gore
Spice Prophecy
Pumpkin Disaster
Faceless Ole Ale
Winter Zuul
Check out AI Weirdness (aka Lewis and Quark) at the link above for more and to study the methodology and learn how to develop an artificial intelligence of your own.