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drawings by Renzo Picasso
Renzo Picasso (1880-1975) was an Italian engineer, architect and designer. Originally from Genoa, he visited the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century and was deeply impressed by American urbanism and technical innovation. Inspired by these “discoveries,” he produced a large number of visionary drawings and plans depicting the most striking aspects of what he saw, such as skyscrapers, elevators, public transports, and urban plans. Read the article Gli straordinari progetti di Renzo Picasso per Genova published in the magazine “Viaggio in Liguria”, issue 02/2010, for more information.
Source: Archivio Renzo Picasso
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An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have
Deborah M Gordon is a professor of biology at Stanford University in California. She has written about her research for publications such as Scientific American and Wired. Her latest book is Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior(2010).
Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their behaviour. People use their brains to remember. Can ant colonies do that? This questionleads to another question: what is memory? For people, memory is the capacity to recall something that happened in the past. We also ask computers to reproduce past actions – the blending of the idea of the computer as brain and brain as computer has led us to take ‘memory’ to mean something like the information stored on a hard drive. We know that our memory relies on changes in how much a set of linked neurons stimulate each other; that it is reinforced somehow during sleep; and that recent and long-term memory involve different circuits of connected neurons. But there is much we still don’t know about how those neural events come together, whether there are stored representations that we use to talk about something that happened in the past, or how we can keep performing a previously learned task such as reading or riding a bicycle. […]
Changes in colony behaviour due to past events are not the simple sum of ant memories, just as changes in what we remember, and what we say or do, are not a simple set of transformations, neuron by neuron. Instead, your memories are like an ant colony’s: no particular neuron remembers anything although your brain does. [Full article]
Source:Aeon
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Why Bees Could Be the Secret to Superhuman Intelligence
Louis Rosenberg thinks he has found a way to make us all a lot smarter. The secret to this superhuman intelligence? Bees.
Rosenberg runs a Silicon Valley startup called Unanimous AI, which has built a tool to support human decision-making by crowdsourcing opinions online. It lets hundreds of participants respond to a question all at once, pooling their collective insight, biases and varying expertise into a single answer.
Since launching in June, Unanimous AI has registered around 50,000 users and answered 230,000 questions. Rosenberg thinks this hybrid human-computer decision-making machine – once dubbed an ‘artificial’ artificial intelligence – could help us tackle some of the world’s toughest questions. What’s more, with advances in AI coming thick and fast, he sees it as a way to put humans back into the loop. [Full article]
Source:BBC
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ViziCities joins UrbanSim
By Robin Hawkes
Just over a year ago I wrote about how far ViziCities has come from its roots as a hobby project back in early 2013, all the way to becoming a fully fledged company at the end of 2014. It’s been an exciting time for ViziCities since then. In the past year alone I’ve had the pleasure to work with large companies spanning a variety of industries, using ViziCities to improve the way they interact with and understand their data. What this has made absolutely clear is that ViziCities is the perfect tool for companies and city authorities to quickly and intuitively understand their geospatial data and make relevant decisions far quicker than they were able to previously.
Source: blog.vizicities.com
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A framework for 3D geospatial visualisation in the browser
From there you will have access to the VIZI namespace which you can use to interact with and set up ViziCities. The first argument is the ID of the HTML element that you want to use as a container for the ViziCities visualisation.
Source:http://ift.tt/28JyfoZ
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“Urban” World?
by Daniel Ibañez
A visual narrative of major metageographical visions of the city, the urban and the world that animate contemporary discussion of world urbanization.
‘Urban’ World? is a project developed by Daniel Ibañez.
Produced by: Daniel Ibañez & Roi Salgueiro.
Voice over by: Azzurra Cox.
Supported by: Urban Theory Lab, Harvard GSD [urbantheorylab.net]
Special thanks to: Neil Brenner.
Source: urbannext.net
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Theatrum Mundi - Design for Free Speech 2014
Re-imagining spaces in NYC as places for free speech, assembly and creative expression. A design competition inspired by the first amendment.
Free speech is essential for a vibrant culture and a democratic society, yet spaces for public expression seem harder and harder to find in the places where we live, work and play.
What does a space for free speech look and feel and sound like? Can they be designed? Are there places in New York City where we can design them?
Source: designingforfreespeech.org
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Network Structure and Network Dynamics
Creative Networking Course at NYU, ITP
Burak Arikan,Amber Case
It is an introduction to complex networks within the context of the arts. It focuses on understanding the structure and dynamics of large-scale networks and expanding the individual’s thinking about the network as a creative medium.
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There are a lot of Wikipedia visualizations. Some concentrate on article contents, others on the links between articles and some use the geocoded content (like in my previous blog post).
This new visualization is novel because it uses the geographical content of Wikipedia in conjunction with the links between articles. In other words, if a geocoded article (that is, an article associated with a location like a city) links to another geocoded article, a line will be drawn between these two points. The result can be found on the map on the left.
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*Europe mapped in geotagged Twitter tweets. Surprising how often people tweet from ships.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/twitteroffice/8798022019/in/set-72157633647745984
The images we’re sharing here use all of the geo-tagged Tweets since 2009 — billions of them. (Every dot is a Tweet, and the color is the Tweet count.)
Source:Twitter Blog
New York
Tokyo
Istanbul
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the aro & ace space network!
a network for people under the ace and/or aro spectrum to talk and get to know other people like us, to share a safe space, and to defy the discourse so commonly pinned against us in the general community!how to join:
- be anywhere on the aro spectrum, ace spectrum, or both.
- reblog this post - it would help us to boost and gain more wonderful members - or simply like or just leave it if you are in the closet.
- and fill in this simple typeformjust to give us a better idea of who you are, and for organisation purposes.
- there is no limit or close date for becoming a member of this network.
- if you have any questions, shoot me an ask or message on @shima-wishesor@marichengs!
what comes next?
- once you’re accepted into the net you can join our discord chat, which i will send a link to via messenger!
- you can also have a spot on our members pageunless you have stated otherwise.
- most importantly, you’ll gain a whole bunch of wonderful new friends to talk to and have support from!
even if you aren’t applying, please consider reblogging this post to boost to other people who may be interested. thank you so much!
Looking for some Ace-Aro positivity? Want someone to talk to about the Ace Aro Spectrum? Consider this network!
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William Holden was an Oscar, BAFTA, and Emmy Award winner.
Pennywise Ask #5from anon.
Watch out, he’s hunting on internet now…
This asshole is smart.
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