Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 169
January 26, 2018
Meltdown and Spectre
*Okay, everybody downplayed the extent of the problem and they were kinda overconfident about fixing it. *But there isn’t even an exploit for it yet....
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The virtual reality “flick,” a new unit of time
*It’s very interesting that media engineering would require such a thing. It’s quite like the need of “registration” to divide space into volumetric accuracies far...
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Holly Herndon attempting to blockchain some stuff that might somehow be music some day
*Most musicians are kinda inarticulate because otherwise they wouldn’t need music, but Holly Herndon, and even the people around her, really don’t have that problem....
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Materials and Data Science Hackathon
*Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? MATDAT18 is a hackathon funded by NSF. This hackathon is to bring together materials and data scientists with the goal...
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Moore’s Law now extra double-plus dead
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01... Death notice: Moore’s Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 Done in by the weaponisation of optimisation, and now 2017 may be as...
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WorldPost examining social media influence
*Okay, that analysis is pretty weird. I mean, this is their analytical studying my “tribal” affiliations as according to what I post on Twitter. “Vegan”?...
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Rare Digital Art
*Well, you can MAKE it rare if you really computationally work at it. Sure, guys, whatever RARE, COLLECTIBLE DIGITAL ART IS HERE TO STAY Rare...
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Disobedient Electronics book review
That’s quite an impressive little book, actually *And there are pdfs of it floating around.
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Quite Frankly It’s a Monster Conference
*A Frankenstein-themed tech-art conference, wow, what a swell idea. Quite Frankly: It’s a Monster Conference Quite Frankly University Club of Western Australia 18-19 October 2018...
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Social media that’s rather more socialistic
*Hmmm. This is in the end what Silicon Valley tries to prevent at all cost: resistance and exodus. How can such a momentum be unleashed?...
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