fredshouse questions the fact that the very field of Ubiquitous Computing have no sex-related applications... Museum guides, elder care, memory prosthetics and ornithology, for sure. But how about teledildonics? - Maybe ubicomp isnt the right kind of medium... - Maybe its too early. There are alm...
[Research] A blurry statistical guide reminder
This is my ultimate statistical guide. It is just a snapshot of a stat summary... It is about how to select statistical tests. Test1: test if the distribution are normal shapiro.test(score) If p-value > 0.05 the distribution is not normal (If not normal, try with the log(score) or with the sqrt(s...
[Weird] Geneva Fluffies
A very odd situation in Geneva, absolutely not clue about what this is. ...
[Trend] Moving forward the trucker hat: thr USS hat
I think it's time to get rid of all those fucking trucker hat. Now the trend will be the USS hat: ...
[Cognition] Can a concept exist without words to describe it?
Can a concept exist without words to describe it? as stated by The Economist. It is indeed a nice topic. The Pirahã, a group of hunter-gatherers who live along the banks of the Maici River in Brazil, use a system of counting called one-two-many. In this, the word for one translates to roughly ...
[Prospective] SciFi and the future of social organization
I have always been amazed by the different social/economic/political forms or organizations in science fiction novel, especially in:- Greenhouse Summer by Norman Spinrad: multinationals are replace by kibboutz-like syndicate. - Distraction by Bruce Sterling: not a true economy, ruled by ex blue-col...
[Prospective] Sterling and Rheingold connections
Two interesting take: Howard Rheingold's latest connection by Rheingold (in Business WeeK) and When Blobjects Rule the Earth by Sterling.Howard Rheingold: Some kind of collective action...in which the individuals aren't consciously cooperating. A market is a great example as a mechanism for determi...
[Weird] Kernel Panic on my mac
Gosh, I cannot do anything :( ...
[Locative Media] Locative Media Event at Amsterdam New Media Institute
Locative Media at SMCS.11, 25.08.04, Stedelijk Museum CS on the 11th storey of the Post CS building, and in connection with the Summer School of the Amsterdam New Media Institute. Participants (smart people :): Pete Gomes, Esther Polak, Jo Walsh, Schuyler Erle, Ben Russell, Wilfried Hou Je Bek. The...
[MyResearch] Tracking football players
Found his phd thesis: Tracking and Modelling of Team Game Interactions. The author proposes a methodology to analyse the positional data in the context of football game. His motivation is due to: 1. With regard to computer vision, the tracking of sports players from video presents a challenging dom...