Visual Technologies, Cyberpunk, Common Core, Japanese Cheerleader Robots, and Intimidating Classical Music
Recorded October 5, 2014. Produced October 12, 2014. "Posted" November 1, 2014.
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Chat
- Ebola leaves Adam awake betwixt his sweaty sheets.
- Dave’s got new headphones, but can’t hear hisself. (Now using LineIn, a pretty sweet little app.)
Points of Note
- David described ROC curves wrong a little bit.
- Last time was a long ass episode. Dave apologizes, because he feels insecure having talked so much about his research.
Cyberpunk!
- Google glass
- Oculus Rift
- Snow Crash: Metaverse and {People who record their experience and upload it to Metaverse} And Google Glass makes this real!
- More about Neal Stephenson
- Tad William Otherland series
- Median ages
- Willaim Gibson
Common Core
- The Bill Gates quote
- Want an emphatic and logically inconsistent argument?
- The difference between standards and curricula.
- Thousand robot swarm
- http://youtu.be/xK54Bu9HFRw
- Fanbots
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Japanese robot cheerleaders
- MuRata is the hardware company that built these, and their webpage showing the cheerleaders is awesome. Keep scrolling!
- Creepy and mildly NSFW: suggestive dancing robot
- John Adams Series
Robots!
Something to Watch
Ted Push
Daria van den BerckenAdam mentions a classical collective the does open jams in Portland.
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