(Originally published in Kaleidoscope magazine, 2010)
The first question is linked to my experiencing UK dance music of the 90s as a person living in a different country - via imported records and british music press - and one interesting thing was the idea of “futurism” that seemed to…
Peter Strickland’s remarkable second film Berberian Sound Studio is a psychological thriller which follows the progress of an unassuming sound engineer from Dorking who finds himself submerged in the murky world of 70s giallo cinema. The film’s soundtrack is by influential British outfit …
My remix of Gwenno’s Ymbelydredd from the ep of the same name, out now on Peski records.
“Only humans can be self-aware.” Another myth bites the dust. Yale roboticists have programmed Nico, a robot, to be able to recognize itself in a mirror. Why is this important? Because robots will need to learn about themeselves and how they affect the world around them — especially people. Using knowledge that it has learned about itself, Nico is able to use a mirror as an instrument for spatial reasoning, allowing it to accurately determine where objects are located in space based on their reflections, rather than naively believing them to exist behind the mirror. Nico’s programmer, roboticist Justin Hart, a member of the Social Robotics Lab, focuses his thesis research primarily on “robots autonomously learning about their bodies and senses,” but he also explores human-robot interaction, “including projects on social presence, attributions of intentionality, and people’s perception of robots.” Recently, the lab (along with MIT, Stanford, and USC) won a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create “socially assistive” robots that can serve as companions for children with special needs. These robots will help with everything from cognitive skills to getting the right amount of exercise. Hart’s specific goal in this program: enable Nico to interact with its environment by learning about itself, and using this self-model, to reason about tasks — mainly ones for humans. (via Robot learns self-awareness | KurzweilAI)
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TweetI can tell you that everybody that attended an Occupy Wall Street protest, and didn’t turn their cell phone off, or put it — and sometimes even if they did — the identity of that cell phone has been logged, and everybody who was at that demonstration, whether they were arrested, not arrested,…
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Intimate Interviews Bella Lugosi
“After the war I participated in the revolution…”
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MANIFESTO CLUB • BANNED IN LONDON
There are 435 banned zones in London. In these zones, citizens can be punished for activities that would otherwise be perfectly legal. Explore the zones on this map.
LULLABY VOLUME 1 HAS BEEN RELEASED. GO GET IT HERE.
Also released on limited cassette tape.
Featuring amazing tracks from Nizari 1411, Munzie, Voila, Gum, Magenta Placenta, Mothersky, Zinumm, Silence The Earth, Blemishes, and Seedge.
Also features GUM - Cherryade (monster bobby remix)
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TweetI made this video for Ben and Jason, as well as all the lovely people who donated money to help me replace my camera. Thank you so much and I really hope you enjoy the video :D
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