Collaborate Disseminate
Scientists have warned that disproportionate sampling of wealthy people impacts research results. Delos Incorporated didn’t get the memo. Continue reading If Rich People Are the Variables in ‘Westworld,’ No Wonder the Experiment Sucks
Suppose you take a few measurements of a time-varying signal. Let’s say for concreteness that you have a microcontroller that reads some voltage 100 times per second. Collecting a bunch of data points together, you plot them out — this must surely have come from a sine wave at 35 Hz, you say. Just connect up the dots with a sine wave! It’s as plain as the nose on your face.
And then some spoil-sport comes along and draws in a version of your sine wave at -65 Hz, and then another at 135 Hz. And then more at -165 …read more
RADIO WONDERLAND is a one-man band with many famous unintentional collaborators. [Joshua Fried]’s shows start off with him walking in carrying a boombox playing FM radio. He plugs it into his sound rig, tunes around a while, and collects some samples. Magic happens, he turns an ancient Buick steering wheel, and music emerges from the resampled radio cacophony.
It’s experimental music, which is secret art-scene-insider code for “you might not like it”, but we love the hacking. In addition to the above-mentioned steering wheel, he also plays a rack of shoes with drumsticks. If we had to guess, we’d say …read more
Right whale sightings are up on Canada’s East coast. Nobody knows why. Continue reading Zodiacs and Crossbows: I Spent a Day Chasing Whales to Learn How to Study Them
