This week's ambience: Ten hours of a neural net trained on the music of the Beatles.
This week's ambience: Ten hours of a neural net trained on the music of the Beatles.
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Musician Clemens Wenners performs covers of 1970s and '80s pop songs using era-appropriate synths.
Musician Clemens Wenners performs covers of 1970s and '80s pop songs using era-appropriate synthesizers.
War Story, a wonderful animated documentary.
A short animated documentary for your weekend: 1989's pretty terrific War Story, created by Aardman Animations, about one man's adventures during the blitz.
SpaceX's linked, internet-providing satellites are already ruining sky views for astronomers.
SpaceX's linked, internet-providing satellites are already ruining sky views for astronomers.
Today's ambience: 40 minutes of a dot matrix printer printing a color hot dog banner in real time.
Today's ambience: Forty minutes of a dot matrix printer printing a color hot dog banner in real time.
A neural network imagines and then forgets a person.
"What I saw before the darkness" is a piece of video art in which an AI generates a human face for itself, then slowly forgets what its face looks like. "The inspiration behind the project is rooted in contemplation of human perception," the creator said. "
The end of the world, according to 1973.
According to Australian Broadcasting Corporation News in 1973, a computer program called World1 offered up some predictions for the future. "Tracing categories such as population, pollution and natural-resource usage, World1 calculated that, by 2040, human civilization would collapse—a century after the best year to have been alive
Beware the bit flip.
We're constantly being bombarded by gamma rays from outer space. Sometimes this causes "bit flips," where a bit inside a computer switches from 0 to 1—and causes an election to go wrong, or a plane to crash. Back in 2003, Belgium was holding a national
Curiosity rover images stitched together to simulate what cloud movement looks like on Mars.
Curiosity rover images stitched together and animated to simulate what cloud movement looks like from the surface of Mars.
The woman who helped discover dinosaurs.
Mary Anning, "the greatest fossilist the world ever knew," got her start at the age of 12 when she and her brother Joseph discovered "what she would later find to be a remarkably complete Jurassic-era fossil of an Ichthyosaurus, a prehistoric marine reptile." From Atlas