Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 57

Alphastar, Google deep learner and wannabe gamer champion

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Musica Globalista: Dubioza Kolektiv, “No Escape (from Balkan)”

*When I taste rakija, in my head anarchia”

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The Verge pondering Runway, the new machine-learning service for artists

Naturally one ought to be curious By James Vincent Jul 10, 2019, 8:00am EDT (…) Runway began as Valenzuela’s thesis project at the Tisch School...

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Memo Akten contemplating AI-generated art

*He’s talking sense. In an interview (…) R: AI-generated art surely feels like a hot topic right now with the recent market hype around the...

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All Katrina, all the time

*it’s about to get hairy in New Orleans. Again, and then again and again. The Mississippi River has been flooding literally all year. You were...

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Meanwhile, in Makerland

*Strange line of work, but that was what was good about it. MAKER MEDIA REBOOTS ITSELF AS MAKE COMMUNITY by: Brian Benchoff At a community...

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The complex, nomadic lifestyle of Amazon arbitrageurs

*Scrounging rare consumer goods to re-sell on Amazon is a difficult way of life. A very novelistic feel to the reportage here (…) Anderson adopted...

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Musica Globalista: Billain, “Bilocation”

*That’s an interesting mystical concept, “bilocation.” Several Christian saints, monks and Muslim sufis are said to have exhibited bilocation. Among the earliest is the apparition...

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The DeepMind gamer privacy policy

*This is in case you play a game against the Google deep-learner, which will very likely kick your ass from hell to breakfast. Alphabet doesn’t...

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Berlin Art Week

*There is a megaton of art in Berlin. Berlin is the capital of the European art world. Compared to Berlin Paris seems small and London...

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