Posts tagged samim

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— samim (@samim) December 1, 2018

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“Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster” - Wirth’s law

— samim (@samim) November 2, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/samim/status/1058245649181732865)

Takeaway: “Outside of cryptocurrencies, POW (proof of work) is already obsolete. Of the more than 160 companies developing energy blockchain applications, not one is building with Bitcoin. And those using Ethereum are poised to switch to a more efficient network” https://t.co/6X7vFReHwQ

— samim (@samim) July 20, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/samim/status/1020270239316168704)

The biggest organism in the world is a mycelium that spreads across 3.8 km (2,384 acres) in Oregon’s Blue Mountains. It’s called Armillaria Mellea, or the honey fungus, and is thought to be over 2,000 years old: https://t.co/LwlApRCmQu https://t.co/G7RdD0XocC pic.twitter.com/txee3vl3bK

— samim (@samim) July 7, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/samim/status/1015677175230582789)

There is a big cultural opening for a new kind of political party:

- Life Centric (the politics of gaia)
- Transnational (tactics of religion)
- Open (opensource, wiki’s etc)
- Agile (lean startup etc)
- Resilient (tactics of info-sec)
- Informal (leaderless & ad-hoc)
- …?

— samim (@samim) June 20, 2018

(via http://twitter.com/samim/status/1009382388357615616)

Making music with computer tools is delightful. Musical ideas can be explored quickly and composing songs is easy. Yet for many, these tools are overwhelming: An ocean of settings can be tweaked and it is often unclear, which changes lead to a great song. This experiment investigates how to use evolutionary algorithm and novelty search to help musicians find musical inspiration in Ableton Live.

via https://medium.com/@samim/musical-novelty-search–2177c2a249cc