TomWhitwell

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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
From Wikipedia: In 1961, an IBM 7094 at Bell Labs was programmed to sing "Daisy Bell" in the earliest demonstration of computer speech synthesis... Science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke witnessed the IBM 704 demonstration during
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Weaponised Autism(ft.com)
6 points by TomWhitwell 2y ago|3 comments
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
A slightly more complicated DIY analog synth (with a computer attached) https://musicthing.co.uk/workshopsystem/
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
This is what an illegal meme looks like: "Tyler Kay, 26, wrote a post... calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set alight. He responded to several comments posted by others following his post, adding that it was “100% the pla
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
Same thing happens in chemistry: some compounds are legal, some aren't. If you come up with a clever way to synthesise the illegal thing, it's still illegal, or will be made illegal eventually.
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
"The electricity you’d normally use will cost the same, any extra power you use will be free."
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
1000 years of English aristocracy disagrees: nobility = landowners
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
Looks like 4 x ADC channels again, no on-board DAC
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
I miss skeuomorphic calendar designs based on the Filofax
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
It’s just about visible (much more so through an iPhone camera) in central London right now
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by TomWhitwell 2y ago
“Birds don’t see well on the old-fashioned CRT screens—their flicker fusion rate is much faster than ours” https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/28/magazine/cockatoo-p...
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The Philosophical Practice of Making an Interspecies Videogame (2014) [pdf](gamephilosophy2014.org)
2 points by TomWhitwell 2y ago|0 comments
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by TomWhitwell 3y ago
There are contemporary first person reports from the people who collected/stole the artefacts in museums. Michael Leiris collected items - some of them ritual items made from coagulated blood - that are still on display in the Musée Qu
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by TomWhitwell 3y ago
Yes, I think it's an artistic interpretation of a digital model of the stones - how the autonomous system sees them.
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On learning that one of the first pieces of electronic music was by an African(nkariuki.com)
1 points by TomWhitwell 3y ago|0 comments
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by TomWhitwell 3y ago
I went from London to Paris last week, only checked the passport once.
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by TomWhitwell 4y ago
Is it fair to say this clones a device with one specific set of knob positions? So if I want to clone a 5 knob fuzz pedal in every possible setting, that’s a lot of cloning to do? I may have misunderstood.
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by TomWhitwell 4y ago
I’m intrigued by how he achieved the hand-drawn sketchy line style look in his early 80s work when so much computer art was geometric lines or Mandelbrot sets
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The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble(pluralistic.net)
126 points by TomWhitwell 4y ago|150 comments
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Dither Patterns for Weaving from 1895(twitter.com)
3 points by TomWhitwell 4y ago|0 comments
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by TomWhitwell 4y ago
The patent for negative feedback was rejected as "another perpetual motion machine" - I’d never heard this! Do you have a reference so I can read more?
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by TomWhitwell 4y ago
This is my favourite ‘always look down in London’ https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-buried-remains-of-li... - an old road running well below street level but visible through a grate
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by TomWhitwell 4y ago
This is great, thank you. Makes me think of all those people saying ‘you could run T_____ with 8 people’
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by TomWhitwell 4y ago
Tell me more!
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Nike ‘Forward’ is a new non-woven, non-stitched sustainable fabric(wwd.com)
2 points by TomWhitwell 4y ago|1 comments
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by TomWhitwell 4y ago
This still exists on the current Dartford Road crossing - but they just put your bike on the back of a truck and drive you over on request: https://www.gov.uk/dartford-crossing-bike
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by TomWhitwell 4y ago
This one surprised me when it came out, felt more ‘human’ than lots of stock photos: https://labs.openai.com/s/AsRKFiOKJmmZrVDxIGa75sSA
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by TomWhitwell 4y ago
In the UK… “The Environmental Services Association, the trade body, said that only 14 per cent of the country's 91,300 waste sector workers were female.” So 2x dall-e searches should produce 1.2 women.
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DALL-E algorithm updated to produce more diverse images(twitter.com)
2 points by TomWhitwell 4y ago|0 comments
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by TomWhitwell 4y ago
Super tricky: https://thecarpentryway.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/crop...

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