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About Algomation.com
“Algomation is a platform for viewing, creating and sharing any type of algorithm. All algorithms on on the site are public and can be viewed and shared by any user of the site. Registered users can create new algorithms or fork existing one.” via About Algomation.com.
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Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds | Books | The Guardian
the performance was largely similar, except when it came to the timing of events in the story. “The Kindle readers performed significantly worse on the plot reconstruction measure, ie, when they were asked to place 14 events in the correct order.” via Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds | Books | […]
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We Experiment On Human Beings! « OkTrends
maybe our matching algorithm was just garbage and it’s only the power of suggestion that brings people together. So we tested things the other way, too: we told people who were actually good for each other, that they were bad, and watched what happened. Here’s the whole scope of results (I’m using the odds of […]
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Soviet synthesizer bridged occultism and electronic music – Boing Boing
“The political tides turned against the Russian avant garde by the time Murzin began working on the ANS in 1938. As Isobel Clouter explains in an episode of the BBC radio show The Soundhunter, most early sound art projects were destroyed. Engineers were forced to work on art projects in secret and had little access […]
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Copying an eBook from Cover to Cover
“The desire for a better social and societal record has led us to huge libraries and massive data centers. We are constantly seeking improved ways to document, remember, and share our information. Our collective cultural database is gigantic, yet as privatization and balkanization take over, especially in digital spaces, our access to it has become […]
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Marcell Mars: Free access to resources for every member of society | DIGITAL PUBLISHING TOOLKIT for the Arts and Culture
However, as Mars pointed out in his talk, the public library itself is currently under a financial, social and political threat. Furthermore, there is still the question which actors can take up its role in the virtual world. Proprietary platforms like Google or Amazon have already stated their ambitions to become such global knowledge keepers, […]