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Title: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on October 29, 2011
If you see, read or hear something interesting, usefull or just plain cool, please post it here. I'll start with this very interesting TED talk that updates the old left/right brain theory along with a very cool animation.

Like so: http://www.ted.com/talks/iain_mcgilchrist_the_divided_brain.html :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on October 30, 2011
No interest then? I was really hoping on some fascinating stuff from you guys as well. I mean, I like making pancakes swedish style as much as the next guy, but sometimes I need something to fall asleep to as well.  ;D


Here's another really cool animation series that explains geometry and how to get a better understanding of higher dimensional forms. It's all presented beautifully in easy to understand Flatland style. I find this stuff exceptionally interesting, and beautiful if nothing else, I hope you do too!

http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_regarder_E.htm
Just click your language of choice.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on October 30, 2011
Had no time to watch it yet. Will do it within the next days I'll promise!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Shockwave on October 30, 2011
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was really hoping on some fascinating stuff from you guys as well

Nothing from me while the F1 Grand Prix was on!  I don't think that's the sort of thing you wanted in response though :)

Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: tykel on October 30, 2011
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see something cool
An Aston Martin being towed away for illegal parking..,  :bfuck2:
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on October 30, 2011
I'm told the downforce of F1 cars is so powerful they could theoretically drive upside down, makes me wish the Red Bull Challenges would spice it up a bit!  :)

@ tykel
Ouch! :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on October 31, 2011
If you see, read or hear something interesting, usefull or just plain cool, please post it here. I'll start with this very interesting TED talk that updates the old left/right brain theory along with a very cool animation.

Like so: http://www.ted.com/talks/iain_mcgilchrist_the_divided_brain.html :)

Just watched the video ... tremendous and shocking (at the end) talk. Like it a lot. Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Shockwave on November 01, 2011
I was reading some posts about Steve Jobs.. Sad that someone else succumbed to Cancer, an awful disease, but I couldn't understand why the whole world mourned the loss of a very rich man who stopped all philanthropic activities of his company, to me he was a great marketing man but not one of my idols..

I started looking over the net while I should have been coding and found some interesting things, two of them stuck out to me, one is this excellent page on Dennis Ritchie, the true genius who's technology was used by apple, who died with barely a mention;

http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html)

And I wonder if you've ever heard of Jonas Salk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk) Who invented the polio vaccine and could have been an overnight billionaire but refused to patent his discovery which meant that his vaccine could be cheaply produced and led to the virtual eradication of this awful disease, with all it's money maybe Apple could make a similar difference to the world, but maybe I'm missing the point of capitalism.  :P

Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on November 01, 2011
People seem to idolise Jobs, like some kind of rock star or movie star. Everything I've read about him seems to indicate he was a bit of a shit person. That probably sounds a bit harsh, but I think it's true.

I doubt Ritchie or Silk were concerned about being revered as god like beings. As for Dennis Ritchie, there was certainly enough awareness of his passing in circles such as ours and I think most of us probably hold him in much higher regard than Steve Jobs. Polio ceased to be a problem for us thankfully, and the average person probably has no idea what UNIX or C is, which I think is the reason for so little coverage.

I have no idea who invented peanut butter, pesto, elastic or the computer mouse (which are some of my favourite things in the world). Maybe we should all take a moment now and again to appreciate the people who brought about the things in life we love so much, or the things that stop our pants and socks falling down...
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on November 01, 2011
Meaby we should idolise the inventions instead of the inventors. This is a slightly unpopular view perhaps (in my own opinion as well) but I'm honestly starting to doubt free will exists at all...

I mean all systems that make up our thought are well acounted for, biochemistry, electricity etc. These systems behave in a predictably similar way, every time. An electric charge (in our brain for example) always follows the way of least resistance, a chemical substance (in our body for example) always behaves the same in the context of other chemicals. There really is no room for free will within these systems at all. Our last hope might hide somewhere at sub-molecular level...

This reminds me of Waking Life, a highly philosophical movie about consiousness. It's rotoscoped nature might bring about some motion sickness but makes for some fantasic effects as well. It's quite slow at times, but 2nd to none in terms of food for thought... Touches on many of the most fascinating subjects regarding consiousness.

You can view it entirely on Google videos (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7583894250854515095), the bit that concerns free will can be found at 27:25. 
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: neriakX on November 02, 2011
Navis of ASD holding a seminar about democ coding. Very cool!

http://archive.assembly.org/2010/seminars/your-next-demo-masterpiece

Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Shockwave on November 06, 2011
 :goodpost:

Been looking for some cool browser intros..

Found this which fucking rocks.

http://www.wab.com/?screen=2 (http://www.wab.com/?screen=2)

Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on November 06, 2011
:goodpost:

Been looking for some cool browser intros..

Found this which fucking rocks.

http://www.wab.com/?screen=2 (http://www.wab.com/?screen=2)

Woooha ... this intro rocks! Good find!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Hotshot on November 06, 2011
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Been looking for some cool browser intros..

Found this which fucking rocks.

http://www.wab.com/?screen=2


+1

P.S. I like the first one....that is so Cool  8)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: combatking0 on November 07, 2011
An electric charge (in our brain for example) always follows the way of least resistance

I'm no biologist, but that statement isn't quite correct.

If there are two paths for a current to follow, and one path has 1/9 the resistance of the other path, then 90% of the current will flow along the path of least resistance, and the remaining 10% will flow along the path of most resistance.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on November 07, 2011
I really enjoyed the browser intro and the ASD seminar!  :updance:

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If there are two paths for a current to follow, and one path has 1/9 the resistance of the other path, then 90% of the current will flow along the path of least resistance, and the remaining 10% will flow along the path of most resistance
Thanks for the correction, but that doesn't really change anything. Point is the behaviour of the entire system can be predicted with 100% acuracy, how does free will figure into that?

Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on November 07, 2011
Cool browser intros and that ASD seminar was great! Watching the rest of them too now :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: copse on November 12, 2011
:goodpost:

Been looking for some cool browser intros..

Found this which fucking rocks.

http://www.wab.com/?screen=2 (http://www.wab.com/?screen=2)
From there to here (http://code.google.com/p/codef/) to here (http://codef.santo.fr/tutorials/59_3d/index.html).  Sweet, there's no reason someone shouldn't be able to take this and make something with flat-shaded polygons.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on November 12, 2011
Awesome find, copse. Thanks for sharing the links. I havent seen them before!!!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Shockwave on November 12, 2011
Some of the best sync I've seen in a demo for a long, long time;


[youtube]mAiRBwGEkmQ[/youtube]
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on November 17, 2011
Check this out (posted by sl!ppy on facebook today):

http://codef.santo.fr/jsYMplayer-EarlyAlpha/ (http://codef.santo.fr/jsYMplayer-EarlyAlpha/)

Chrome Only For now
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on November 17, 2011
That's pretty cool Benny. Sounds quality sounds really nice and punchy here too.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on November 24, 2011
Beware online filter bubbles! (http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html)  :whack:
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on November 24, 2011
Beware online filter bubbles! (http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html)  :whack:

I was aware such things existed, but not how much they affect things. Interesting indeed.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: neriakX on November 26, 2011
Beware online filter bubbles! (http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html)  :whack:

I was aware such things existed, but not how much they affect things. Interesting indeed.
dude, that's some scary stuff. how's your internet looking? ;)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Shockwave on November 26, 2011
That was actually quite surprising to watch.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on November 27, 2011
Here is another absolutely fantastic RSA Animate talk which combines great talks wirth equally great explanatory animations. This one is titled Changing education paradigms:

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms.html
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Shockwave on November 27, 2011
Just been watching this;

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=38455283567435786

And here's a pretty good remake!

http://www.oolite.org/
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Moroboshisan on December 01, 2011
Waiting for these releases so far!...

http://www.rgcd.co.uk/ (http://www.rgcd.co.uk/)

C64 Canabalt by Paulko64 ("official" release)
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=103143 (http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=103143)

or

Canabalt by Mr.SID ("unofficial" release)
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=103017 (http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=103017)

original game http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/ (http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on December 01, 2011
kEwl
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on December 03, 2011
Phil Plait - Don't Be A Dick (http://vimeo.com/13704095)

Interesting talk on skepticism...
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on December 12, 2011
Abyss Music Disc (http://www.abyss-online.de/disissid4/)

Press keys 1-8 to change tunez. Done with codef and its AHX replayer.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on December 12, 2011
This is just freaky:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBR4cT-0sKY&feature=related[/youtube]
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Shockwave on December 13, 2011
Crikey, that's realistic!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: jace_stknights on December 14, 2011
impressive!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on December 14, 2011
This looks really cool too. Almost sad it isn't a film as I would love to watch it :)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSXyztq_0uM&feature=relmfu[/youtube]

Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Shockwave on December 14, 2011
Wow.

What can I say except - Don't fuck with George Michael.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: jace_stknights on December 15, 2011
 :bfuck1:
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on December 23, 2011

2011 Summed Up In One Picture (http://9gag.com/gag/1210911?ref=fb-share)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on January 11, 2012
The Human Smurf:

[youtube]ahihGKZC5Kk[/youtube]
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Shockwave on January 11, 2012
How can a human have that much silver in their body and still live?
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on January 11, 2012
How can a human have that much silver in their body and still live?

Apparently it's happened to quite a few people. It seems to just collect in the skin and eyes. From what I've read, it's permanent too :P
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: jace_stknights on January 12, 2012
We just have to find "Gargamel" and his cat after the "Papa Smurf"!!!  :stirrer:
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on January 12, 2012
The problem with patents (http://frugaldad.com/patents/)  :telloff:
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on January 27, 2012
We all know about DNA and Chromosomes and their high level functions, the theory is pretty staright forward, but the low level practise is something else entirely (http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_berry_animations_of_unseeable_biology.html).

Now I finally begin to understand how all those beautifull biology pics actually fit together.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on January 27, 2012
Cool places on our earth:

http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/2106316_700b.jpg (http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/2106316_700b.jpg)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on January 27, 2012
Wow, stunning pics! :o

Makes me feel like traveling and see more of the world...
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on January 27, 2012
Wow, stunning pics! :o

Makes me feel like traveling and see more of the world...

Had the same feeling today while watching those pics. I was sitting at my desk in my office - outside it was snowing - and I just wanted to leave ;-)

Well, now Weekend is here and time to get some booze!

Cheers  :cheers:
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Moroboshisan on February 01, 2012
...quite boring nowadays... but DHTML seemed really promising back then!

http://www.shamedesigns.com (http://www.shamedesigns.com)

take a look at "Web Effects" and "Demo Remakes"

(usa an ancient browser for best results...)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Shockwave on February 02, 2012
Some pretty good C64 remakes on there especially if you have the SID plugin :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on February 02, 2012
Our governments suck! (http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_three_types_of_online_attack.html)

Citizens -->  :bfuck1: <-- Government
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: slinks on February 05, 2012
Now this (http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_OS_Vision.aspx) looks interesting. Nice to see them trying to revive the brand, but I really can't see it taking off. Far too niche a product.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Moroboshisan on February 05, 2012
Now this (http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_OS_Vision.aspx) looks interesting. Nice to see them trying to revive the brand, but I really can't see it taking off. Far too niche a product.

OMG... not THAT please!!!... to my eyes this is like  :boxer:  the worst of nightmares come true! :/ A totally overpriced PC hardware with C64 appearance! ("Amiga" lineup coming soon...  :telloff: )

I really can't stand that product lineup... it utterly betrays the concept led by Jack Tramiel back then "Computers for the masses, not the classes!" ... without real improvment above a standard linuxbox than a customized window manager and custom shape...... sorry pal, I'm from the old days and this totally makes me feel angry! This kind of things steals $$$ from nostalgic feelings, no way!

PS: nothing personal slinks, that just my personal POV... peace!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: slinks on February 05, 2012
I was talking about the software, not the hardware. Granted it's nothing special, but the idea of any computer manufacturer offering that many programs in the main package makes for a nice change.

Hardware is obviously an over-priced case with a very standard computer in it :(

Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on February 09, 2012
Kilobots FTW! (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111122112020.htm) They go for about $15 a piece.

See some demo videos here. (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/ssr/projects/progSA/kilobot.html)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on February 12, 2012
Starry Night (http://vimeo.com/36466564)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on February 23, 2012
WAT (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat) ... it's a short but very funny presentation (for geeks only of course) ;-)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: ferris on February 23, 2012
bahahaha!!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on February 23, 2012
LOL!
No wait, ROFL! :D
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on February 23, 2012
Hahaha, very funny. NaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaN Batman!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on March 03, 2012
Flying swarming robots! (http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate.html)

As exciting as I think these things are, it really sucks that their first appliance will probably be military...
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on March 05, 2012
All your devices can be hacked (http://www.ted.com/talks/avi_rubin_all_your_devices_can_be_hacked.html)

Some amazing hacks in there, the bit at the end using the iphones Accelerometer is pretty incredible.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on March 06, 2012
Javascript/WebGL port of VIP2 by Popsy Team (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6873971/data/vip2/index.html)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on March 06, 2012
Javascript/WebGL port of VIP2 by Popsy Team (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6873971/data/vip2/index.html)

Pretty neat. That music gives me a headache though :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on March 11, 2012
State of Mind by Bomb! 1998

Canvas Version (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6873971/data/mind/canvas.html)

WebGL version (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6873971/data/mind/index.html)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: neriakX on April 13, 2012
 'The Random Adventures of Brandon Generator'  - HTML5

http://www.brandongenerator.com
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on April 13, 2012
That's really slick NeriakX, very cool :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on April 14, 2012
Good find! Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: hellfire on April 18, 2012
(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/301739_360108444024268_224132780955169_931263_783210430_n.jpg)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on April 18, 2012
Haha, brill!  ;D

The pinnacle of design right there.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on April 23, 2012
ZX Spectrum 30th birthday today! (http://uk.games.ign.com/articles/122/1223530p1.html) :)

BBC did an interview with the designers (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17776666), as linked to in the article above.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on May 02, 2012
How Googles self driving car works (http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/how-google-self-driving-car-works)

It's interesting that traffic would be a lot safer with todays autonomous driving systems already, but until the accident rate is down to absolute 0% no company is likely to bring it to market. The 0.001% that does experience a car accident caused by some AI is right to sue.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on May 02, 2012
Looks very interesting Kirl. It's a bit of a hefty read, so I'll save it for bed tonight :)

I would certainly love one. I can't park a car properly to save my life! haha

Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on May 21, 2012
10 of the world's biggest unsolved mysteries (http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/photos/10-of-the-worlds-biggest-unsolved-mysteries/go-figure)  :whisper:

Quote
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Shockwave on June 02, 2012
This is pretty interesting stuff.. I was reading a book about how the power of the crowd drives the worlds stock markets and my searching for links led me off on an interesting tangent..

That Google can predict the future of stock markets, disease epidemics etc, just because they know what everyone is searching for..

http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/15/google-searches-predict-stock-market-moves/ (http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/15/google-searches-predict-stock-market-moves/)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/12/google-health (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/12/google-health)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on June 03, 2012
Forget the secret services, the Google is all knowing! :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on June 11, 2012
Tracking the trackers (http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers.html)

Crap, now I got to go and use firefox again...
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: n00bstar on June 12, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/user/scishow

I'm a huge sucker for documentaries and sciency shows...I've been watching way too much of these little videos lately. Its a science show aimed mostly at teenagers, kind of like what Bill Nye The Science Guy used to do. The guy is a very good communicator and is entertaining to watch.  There are a few playlist categories which are all equally interesting.

I wonder how many red dots I get coming here?  :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: egons on June 12, 2012
(http://cs301513.userapi.com/v301513571/1dad/iGeVEnWiMng.jpg)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on June 13, 2012
Totally useless on the one hand but on the other totally amusing ...

http://www.pointerpointer.com (http://www.pointerpointer.com)

Does not work with Chrome unfortunately, use Firefox instead

Btw, for those who are interested in how this FX is done, they are using voronoi for matching - here the FX is explained:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ZXW2HBLPM[/youtube]
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on July 25, 2012
Pointerpointer really rox! :)


http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention/
On this site you can follow 6 months of the life of Malte Spitz who sued his phone company to hand over the data they collected on him. The 2006 EU data retention directive says Phone Companies and Internet Providers should store all your network data for at least 6 months (up to 2 years).

He made his begotten phone data available online and interactive so you can play around with it and see just how closely all of us can be monitored, tracked, traced and probed like livestock. Combine this with a persons internet behaviour and you know privacy is an illusion, the people with acces to this data know more about you then your closest friends ever will...
Welcome to the brave new world of data collection and retention!  :bfuck1:
I found it through his TED talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/malte_spitz_your_phone_company_is_watching.html) where he talks about this.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on August 01, 2012
Pointerpointer really rox! :)


http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention/
On this site you can follow 6 months of the life of Malte Spitz who sued his phone company to hand over the data they collected on him. The 2006 EU data retention directive says Phone Companies and Internet Providers should store all your network data for at least 6 months (up to 2 years).

He made his begotten phone data available online and interactive so you can play around with it and see just how closely all of us can be monitored, tracked, traced and probed like livestock. Combine this with a persons internet behaviour and you know privacy is an illusion, the people with acces to this data know more about you then your closest friends ever will...
Welcome to the brave new world of data collection and retention!  :bfuck1:
I found it through his TED talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/malte_spitz_your_phone_company_is_watching.html) where he talks about this.

That was really quite scary Kirl. I knew this stuff goes on, but it's not until it's illustrated like this that you really see the full scope of how the information can be used. I'm sure the "If you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to hide" brigade would consider me paranoid, but they'd probably also object to having the world watching them have sex with their wife, which kinda destroys their argument :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on August 02, 2012
Not to mention the metadata of all that info together (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_state). You can see the structure of a society, who the leaders are and their sphere of influence. In his talk he also mentions the berlin wall and how differently that might've worked out if everybody had a mobile phone att...  :-\

---------

On a much much brighter note: Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/)!  :updance:
You can follow entire university courses (Princeton, Stanford et al), including assignments and exams (and a place to ask questions) on a wide range of wildly interesting topics (algorithms, cryptography, machine learning, parralel programming etc etc). Found it through another TED talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html).

Free education FTW! :clap:
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on August 03, 2012
Awesome link, Kirl. Education should be for everyone. Signed in for one course already.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on August 26, 2012
http://leapmotion.com/
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on August 27, 2012
http://leapmotion.com/

That looks amazing Kirl. Quite excited to see how the finished product turns out and $70 seems very cheap for such a thing. If it performs as well as it does in the video, it could be a real game changer. Have you pre-ordered one?
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on August 27, 2012
Looks like another kinect fork ;-)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Blacksheep8Bit on August 27, 2012
Made me cry for a moment, such an amazing orchestra for an amazing game! It give me inspiration when i am programming, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogyonKWT-Ps
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on August 28, 2012
... Have you pre-ordered one?

Nah, I would love to play around with it, but there's still loads of interesting input devices I haven't gotten around to experiment with. I wonder how much of an impact this will make when it's being shipped.

@blacksheep
I love the orchestral treatment of game music, beautiful! :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on September 12, 2012
Wow ... this looks like the future of game engines:

Brigade - Real Time Path Tracing (http://raytracey.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/real-time-path-tracing-racing-game.html)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on September 14, 2012
Wow that's pretty amazing! :o

As is a bit of pondering over numbers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GEebx72-qs&feature=relmfu). :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on September 14, 2012
Wow that's pretty amazing! :o

As is a bit of pondering over numbers (http://a bit of pondering over numbers). :)

Hmmm .. .seems your link is kind of broken ;-)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on September 14, 2012
Fixed, thanks :)

I have been playing fold-it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldit) on and off lately. I'm sure some of you know Folding@HOME for PS3 or PC, they made a puzzle game out of it, combining the raw processing power of Computers with the intuition and smarts of humans.

The goal is to find better folding configurations for known proteins and possibly in the long run to educate designers to develop future proteins from scratch. I also really enjoy learning what all the various balls and sticks mean in an interesting interactive manner.

They already had some great results solving several real world scientific problems. Would be great to see this included in the PS4 as freebie too. :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Clyde on September 14, 2012
Quite an interesting topic over on Pouet net linking to an article about the democoder IQ and how he pulled of some amazing visuals to the Pixar Film - Brave, by using an oldskool approach. I've always loved Pixar Films.

http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=9019&page=1&x=17&y=9
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on September 15, 2012
Awesome, I always admired Pixar for their 3d excellence (I made this spoof once (http://kirl.nl/picview_pixrl.html)) and used to read everything I could about how they solved certain technical issues. I still have an amazingly interesting presentation of a SIGGRAPH talk from a pixar employee about where the eyes are lead and how to controll attention with a bunch of very simple tricks.

Really enjoyed the article, thanks for posting! :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on September 19, 2012
'How I CRASHED my bank, stole PINs with a touch-tone phone'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/18/dtmf_phone_system_hack_attack/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/18/dtmf_phone_system_hack_attack/)

Impressive :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on September 19, 2012
Phreaky!  ;D
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on October 10, 2012
Human pixels making music and images ... even some from some computer games

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAzzbrFgcUw&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on October 10, 2012
Some of the most complex and highest precision formations I ever saw, the moving horse was particularly amazing! :clap:
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on October 10, 2012
Fantastic! :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: neriakX on October 10, 2012
never seen something like this be4 ... and yes, the moving horse was absolutly amazing!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: C3lt1c on October 10, 2012
one of the best graphics and algorithm i have seen...  :clap:
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Jim on October 10, 2012
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I[/youtube]
Floating-point life algorithm

Jim
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: jace_stknights on October 11, 2012
Fantastic! :)
unbelievable!!! I don't want to know how much time they spent to learn all the timing, ... 
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: neriakX on October 11, 2012
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uExyrWXd9NM[/youtube]

128 bytes .. what the fooboo
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on October 11, 2012
Awesome Jim, got me on a little cellular auomata trip around youtube. Lots of really cool and simple ideas!  :clap:
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on October 11, 2012
@neriakX: 128b ... that's mad!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on October 23, 2012
Haha, code poems, submission seems to be closed already but I thought it was an interesting idea. Couldn't find any examples unfortunatly except for some funny comments.

code-poems (http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/02/code-poems/)

Here's mine ;D
Code: [Select]
roses = red;
violets = blue;
while(roses != violets)
   print("I love you!");
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Raizor on October 23, 2012
Haha, code poems, submission seems to be closed already but I thought it was an interesting idea. Couldn't find any examples unfortunatly except for some funny comments.

code-poems (http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/02/code-poems/)

Here's mine ;D
Code: [Select]
roses = red;
violets = blue;
while(roses != violets)
   print("I love you!");

Hahaha, great stuff Kirl :D
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on October 25, 2012
Great car physics engine called BeamNG is coming our ways...

http://m.ca.ign.com/articles/2012/10/01/the-most-impressive-physics-engine-youve-never-seen (http://m.ca.ign.com/articles/2012/10/01/the-most-impressive-physics-engine-youve-never-seen)

There are several cool videos like this on that page:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JPDtDfxf6w&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on October 26, 2012
Wow, great stuff! Back when cloth physics for Cinema4d came out, somebody on the 3d forums posted a really cool car crash example by giving the cloth a very high stiffness value. It was like magic to see it used like that! Sold me on physics, as this one plugin could be used to simulate convincing jelly, metal and cloth behaviour. 

It's really cool to think that programming this sort of stuff doesn't seem nearly as impossible as it appeared back then. :)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on October 26, 2012
Yeah true ... even just the first cloth animation I saw in my life was so stunning.

Really looking forward to see those physics in a actual game.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on December 01, 2012
Javascript AGI (Adventure Game Interpreter) -> Play Leisure Suit Larry in your browser (http://web.ist.utl.pt/~antonio.afonso/agi/)!  O0

No music unfortunatly...
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on December 02, 2012
Check out this awesome sneaker projection demo ( http://vimeo.com/51276780 ). I got into contact with an old classmate who started a company projecting stuff on buildings/angled surfaces.

Buildings are only feasable for commercial projects, but smaller objects like a shoe or a pile of boxes are possible without funding. The shoe was a demo on BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer), some kind of projection demo event. I'm trying to think of some cool stuff to do with this. Would love to hear your ideas if you got some!

Some sort of tent with an interactive 360 plasma projected all around would be really trippy! 8)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: jace_stknights on January 03, 2013
Spectacular things outside in real 3D   ;D


http://www.astrometeo974.fr/astroweb/Noaa/index.html (http://www.astrometeo974.fr/astroweb/Noaa/index.html)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on January 03, 2013
Amiga Emulator in HTML5

http://scriptedamigaemulator.net/ (http://scriptedamigaemulator.net/)

Chrome and a fast PC highly recommended!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on January 04, 2013
Awesome!  :clap:


[youtube]MAlVUlMXHUc&NR=1[/youtube]
This is a really cool talk about math, symmetry and art. The title says it all really...
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: benny! on January 04, 2013
Nice talk ... thinking about ordering his book The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind

Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Shockwave on January 08, 2013
Happy 71st birthday Stephen Hawking.

 Why god did not create the universe   (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704206804575467921609024244.html)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on January 30, 2013
I posted this before but I'm doing it again for everybody that may have missed it. I'm really enjoying the classes I'm doing atm. Some things go way over my head but it's good to be challenged, so you can once again see how much there is yet to be learned.

Coursera  (http://www.coursera.org/)
^^^^^^: follow complete university courses on a wide range of interesting and/or useful subjects, including: astrobiology, digital sound design, img & video processing, algorithms, algebra, calculus and much more! Go take a peek, there's bound to be something of your interest there.

Free education FTW!  :clap:
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on April 29, 2013
Apply for a one way ticket to Mars today!  ;D

http://applicants.mars-one.com/

It's a pretty interesting concept, hope they'll get it off the ground!
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on November 14, 2014
Consider this, there is now a man made washing machine standing all alone on a rock of about 2~5 km across at a distance of about 500 million km from earth!

Here's a little interactive animation (http://www.smh.com.au/national/rosetta) about Rosetta's 7 billion km journey towards the comet, which itself is traveling at a velocity of around 135 000 km/h!!

FTW!  :buddies:

(http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Rosetta-Navcam-approach-Aug-4_1_Ken-Kremer--572x580.jpg)
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on November 25, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSheVhmcYLA

Just in time for Back 2 the future's future.  O0
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on August 01, 2015
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oGbaAs7ASwE

 :clap:
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: CLASSmate on September 12, 2015
Guy of strange origin went to a shop today.
I've glanced him standing by those cold drinks.
He glanced behind, left and right - too see if there's someone on lookout.
Took drink.
Opened it.
Drank it.
Closed it.
Put it back.

That's a hack.
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on October 17, 2015
http://www.duangle.com/nowhere  :clap:
Sounds like an interesting game concept.

Awesome procedural terrain generation with cool sound fx.
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/LKEN8fdo174?vq=hd1080&autoplay=1


It's too bad our youtube forum tag went kaput...   :(
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on May 04, 2016
What The Flux!?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gypAjPp6eps
Title: Re: The most interesting thing I saw today
Post by: Kirl on May 07, 2016
Sculptable non toxic 3d printing
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=elmx-suesKE