Why Programming Is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly-Understood and Sloppily-Formulated Ideas - 1969
[pdf] - An html version is also available.
Face Swapping: Automatically Replacing Faces in Photographs
Found searching Blogonia for “propositional calculus”:
- Alain Badiou - Course on Logic - Part I
- Alain Badiou - Course on Logic - Part II
- Alain Badiou - Course on Logic - Part III
“A translation of lecture notes from a course on Logic delivered by Alain Badiou in 1980 - 81. It is rather short and deals specifically with Gödel and his theorem of incompleteness.”
Shoes
Make colorful programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
Some explanations, plus a link to a modernized translation of Gödel’s original paper.
“Solar panels heat the water, and a wind turbine on the roof generates electricity. Rainwater is collected in a 3,000-gallon cistern, then filtered, treated and pumped through the house for cleaning purposes.”
Choose.
Winnipeg: Love or Hate
Photos of my home town. Many of them were shot in HDR.
Best (and Worst) from the same photographer.
The building on the left is the Winnipeg Clinic. My parents would bring me here to visit our pediatrician.
I remember elevator buttons that weren’t actually buttons but some sort of 1940s high-tech touch sensor. (Or is this actually a memory from The Bay?)
Sitting in the waiting room I would stare out from below one of those beautifully curved awnings, fascinated by the mirrored surface of the building across the street. I searched the grid for a pattern to explain the positions of the different coloured windows.
His Winnipeg
An Interview with Guy Maddin [Aug 2008]
superimpose
Bridges 2008 - Leeuwarden, NL
Annual conference on mathematical connections in Art, Music, and Science celebrating the 110th Birth Year of M.C. Escher in his Birthplace.
The Ampersand
An attempt to give this humble ligature the respect it deserves.
Tilings Encyclopedia
In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.
The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
A story by Cory Doctorow about geek monasteries that house smart people who can’t get along in the world and put them to work as coders.