Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 84

Leela, the other chess-playing neural net

*That’s a pretty strong machine. https://blog.lczero.org/2019/02/leela....

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Offshore Laboratory Amsterdam

*I hope they’re having fun. * Offshore Laboratory Amsterdam | FEB 12-17 * Organised by: RYBN & FIBER Hosted by: Waag Locations: Waag (Amsterdam) a.o....

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Dead Media Beat: faxes crawling back from the brink of extinction

*They do have some competitive merits, especially as other methods of communication get spammed. https://qz.com/1544122/its-2019-and-f....

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Musica Globalista: Merle Hazard, “(Gimme Some of That) Ol’ Atonal Music”

*Okay, it’s a novelty YouTube clip, but it’s got a John Cage segment in it.

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Regulating things that don’t exist yet

*You may notice that Mr Sonderland complains about the European precautionary principle, but then he alleges that Huawei might some day engage in a cyberwar...

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NEW CALL FOR PAPERS: TECHNOLOGY, WOMEN, AND GOTHIC-HORROR ON-SCREEN

*Hey look, it’s some “Gothic High-Tech.” NEW CALL FOR PAPERS: TECHNOLOGY, WOMEN, AND GOTHIC-HORROR ON-SCREEN February 4, 2019 Leave a comment Technology, Women, and Gothic-Horror...

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Latent Spaces: A Nontechnical Introduction to Making Pictures with Generative Adversarial Networks

*Check out those “resources,” weird adversarial-graphics fans. Latent Spaces: A Nontechnical Introduction to Making Pictures with Generative Adversarial Networks by Casey Reas and Hye Min...

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Augment and Disrupt in Utrecht

*A nice place for it. Augment and Disrupt Three-day mini-festival Het Huis Utrecht and IMPAKT Center for Media Culture Professionals can request accreditation here Augment...

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Call for Lectures/Theory Presentations in VideoVortex XII, Malta

*So, Malta, is it? Call for Lectures/Theory Presentations VideoVortex XII, Malta Conference: September 27-28, 2019 EXTENSION OF DEADLINE UNTIL 15 MARCH Please submit to: submissions@vv12.org...

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Post-Murakami Japanese novelists

*I need to wake up and read some of these people. In my “copious spare time,” of course (…) Like Murakami, these writers describe worlds...

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