Posted on Monday, 23 January
Posted on Monday, 16 January
Bored couples, Martin Parr ››
Posted on Monday, 16 January
Brilliant: Machine pareidolia - hello little fella meets facetracker ››
How will we ever make sense of scientific topics that are too big to know? The short answer: by transforming what it means to know something scientifically.
This would not be the first time. For example, when Sir Francis Bacon said that knowledge of the world should be grounded in carefully verified facts about the world, he wasn’t just giving us a new method to achieve old-fashioned knowledge. He was redefining knowledge as theories that are grounded in facts.
The Age of the Net is bringing about a redefinition at the same scale. Scientific knowledge is taking on properties of its new medium, becoming like the network in which it lives. […]
This new knowledge requires not just giant computers but a network to connect them, to feed them, and to make their work accessible. It exists at the network level, not in the heads of individual human beings.
Posted on Sunday, 8 January
To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data - David Weinberger - Technology - The Atlantic (via new-aesthetic)
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Posted on Sunday, 8 January
Dazed Digital | Paul Mason: Why It’s All Kicking Off (via new-aesthetic)
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Posted on Sunday, 8 January
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Posted on Wednesday, 4 January
ESPN - OTL: Test of Time - E-ticket
(The Internet is really just a sophisticated hammer.)
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Posted on Friday, 30 December
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Posted on Tuesday, 20 December
“Google Earth has developed an extended network of automated cameras, operators, satellites, aerial photographers, programmers, and terrain and map information to assemble an ever more convincing representation of the planet. This mostly automated system sometimes produces unexpected and wonderful artifacts. The bridges in these postcards are glitches that occur when the 2d satellite imagery and 3d terrain don’t line up quite right, or structures such as bridges are projected down onto the terrain below, creating fabulous and unintentional distortions.”
http://clementvalla.com/work/bridges/
via slavin, via @bruces and @bopuc
(Posted previously, worth a repost)
Posted on Tuesday, 20 December