Quanta Magazine
How Claude Shannon’s Concept of Entropy Quantifies Information
4 min · · What’s a message, really? Claude Shannon recognized that the elemental ingredient is surprise. · Shared by 707, including Josep M. Ganyet, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Brian Roemmele
rochester.edu
Turning the gears of an early modern search engine
4 min · · The book wheel is a recreation of a 16th century design, solving the problem of needing access to multiple books at the same time. · Shared by 10, including Ferris Jabr, Josep M. Ganyet
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· We’ve detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using twitter.com. You can see a list of supported browsers in our… · Shared by 6, including Josep M. Ganyet
OpenAI
DALL·E 2
1 min · · DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language. · Shared by 4366, including Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Mark Tabladillo PhD, Ross Dawson, Daniel Shiffman, Semil, Prof. Kim Nicholas *WeCanFixIt.substack.com*, John Jantsch, Balaji, Liam Bright, David McCandless, Carl T. Bergstrom, Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦, Robert Scoble, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Bob E. Hayes, Brendan Nyhan (@Brendan.J.Nyhan on 🧵🧵🧵), Tom Vander Ark, Douglas Karr, Chris Messina
processamentdelso.wordpress.com
Materials
· Materials del curs Apunts: Tema 1: Introducció al curs i a la síntesi de sons: transparències, apunts. Tema 2: Digitalització Tema 3: Representació de sons, anàlisi espectral Tema 4: Mòduls de sín… · Shared by 7, including Josep M. Ganyet
iasl.uni-muenchen.de
History of Computer Art
3 min · · IASLonline NetArt: Theory Thomas Dreher all chapters with links in one PDF file auf Deutsch Between October 2011 and December 2012 the German version was published in the internet chapter for chapter… · Shared by 5, including Josep M. Ganyet
cyberneticzoo.com
a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
17+ min · · Shared by 8, including Josep M. Ganyet, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
The New York Times
The Meaning and History of Memes
5 min · · Internet culture is saturated with memes, but how would you explain a meme to someone who doesn’t get it? · Shared by 20, including Josep M. Ganyet
borism.medium.com
Menus, Metaphors and Materials: Milestones of User Interface Design
20+ min · · Why It Is Important to Understand and Appreciate Historic User Interface Designs. By Boris Müller and Frank Rausch · Shared by 10, including Josep M. Ganyet
Kickstarter
Kickstarter >> Computer Engineering for Babies Book by Chase Roberts
· An interactive board book to learn the basics of computer engineering. · Shared by 11, including Josep M. Ganyet
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Josep M. Pep Vilalta on Twitter
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EL PAÍS
Byung-Chul Han: “El móvil es un instrumento de dominación. Actúa como un rosario”
8 min · · El filósofo surcoreano, una de las estrellas del pensamiento actual, profundiza en su cruzada contra los ‘smartphones’. Estima que se han convertido en una herramienta de subyugación digital que crea… · Shared by 36, including Jose Luis Calvo, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Josep M. Ganyet
The Atlantic
Inside the Podcast Brain: Why Do Audio Stories Captivate?
19+ min · · The emotional appeal of listening · Shared by 13, including Josep M. Ganyet
Mozilla
Why are hyperlinks blue?
9 min · · The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ev · Shared by 1486, including Katja Evertz, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Matt Navarra, Tactical Tech, Marc Andreessen -- e/acc, hiten.eth, Pixel, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Ferran Morales, Ines Bieler, zeldman, Gabriele, @kevinctofel@hachyderm.io 🇺🇦, Josep M. Ganyet, Gisele Navarro, Mike Ivars, Raphael Raue, Esther Schindler, PacielloGroup, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social
Aeon+Psyche
A biography of the pixel, the elementary particle of pictures
12+ min · · An exact mathematical concept, pixels are the elementary particles of pictures, based on a subtle unpacking of infinity · Shared by 130, including Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Josep M. Ganyet, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Tactical Tech, mdy, Anita Leirfall, Pippa Malmgren