Ray Kurzweil speaks at the BCI X-prize conference on the singularity and challenges facing neural computer interfaces. The X-Prize for BCI is hoping to be set to offer $10 million+ to technology which enables the sight of the blind. Read more at H+ Magazine
Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.
Thanks to We’s Unruly for passing this along.
If logs of Web sites visited began to be kept, they would be available only to local, state, and federal police with legal authorization such as a subpoena or search warrant.
“The question at least for the bureau has been about non-content transactional data to be preserved: transmission records, non-content records…addressing, routing, signaling of the communication,” Motta said. Director Mueller recognizes, he added “there’s going to be a balance of what industry can bear…He recommends origin and destination information for non-content data.”
“We’re not set up to keep URL information anywhere in the network,” said Drew Arena, Verizon’s vice president and associate general counsel for law enforcement compliance.
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And, Arena added, “if you were do to deep packet inspection to see all the URLs, you would arguably violate the Wiretap Act.”
Another industry representative with knowledge of how Internet service providers work was unaware of any company keeping logs of what Web sites its customers visit.
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The technical challenges also may be formidable. John Seiver, an attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine who represents cable providers, said one of his clients had experience with a law enforcement request that required the logging of outbound URLs.
“Eighteen million hits an hour would have to have been logged,” a staggering amount of data to sort through, Seiver said. The purpose of the FBI’s request was to identify visitors to two URLs, “to try to find out…who’s going to them.
Via Klintron
Congrats, Klint! Look forward to seeing where you continue navigating that infoship in the future:
Really innovative approach to computer interfaces and meatspace metadata.
More about Pranav’s designs are avbl. at his TED presentation.
Pranav Mistry is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab. Before his studies at MIT, he worked with Microsoft as a UX researcher; he’s a graduate of IIT. Mistry is passionate about integrating the digital informational experience with our real-world interactions.
Some previous projects from Mistry’s work at MIT includes intelligent sticky notes, Quickies, that can be searched and can send reminders; a pen that draws in 3D; and TaPuMa, a tangible public map that can act as Google of physical world. His research interests also include Gestural and Tangible Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, AI, Machine Vision, Collective Intelligence and Robotics.
“We know that the brain has amazing computational capabilities,” remarks Karlheinz Meier, a physicist at Heidelberg University. “Clearly there is something to learn from biology. I believe that the systems we are going to develop could form part of a new revolution in information technology.”
It’s a strong claim, but Meier is coordinating the EU-supported FACETS project which brings together scientists from 15 institutions in seven countries to do just that. Inspired by research in neuroscience, they are building a ‘neural’ computer that will work just like the brain but on a much smaller scale.
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Practical neural computers could be only five years away. “The first step could be a little add-on to your computer at home, a device to handle very complex input data and to provide a simple decision,” Meier says. “A typical thing could be an internet search.”
50TB Flash Drives made out of a bug protein?
Shifting sound to light may lead to better computer chips
“Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have for the first time converted the highest frequency sounds into light by reversing a process that converts electrical signals to sound.”
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Privatizing Success, Socializing Failure
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Jacques Fresco in Future by Design
Iowa Staters advance developmental robotics with goal of teaching robots to learn
Re-Published here per multiple request for the article and key64 being dead as shit until they get their act together. Needs a Re-write/Updated - soon….
Circuit Bending - Modern DIY OcculTech
I could sit here and write the typical how-to BS article about circuit bending you can find anywhere on-line but instead Imma approach it in a spiritual sense. Circuit bending is one of the latest forms of occult technology to emerge over the past 20 years, and I would argue one of the most potent due to it’s correct form. You’re prolly wondering what qualifies this as occultech? I mean it’s just making instruments out of kids toys and abandoned other (usually) battery-operated noise producers, right? No, Wrong - it’s a direct channel into chaos, as circuit bending takes circuit boards and rewires them to send incorrect voltages to transitors, capacitors, etc. This results in Random output from the machine. It is in this manner that we establish a channel to divine chaos’ manifestation within this technomantic art.
Occultech is quite an antiquated notion really, throughout time magickal weapons, talismans, sigils, etc. have fufilled this role. Over the past century more analog occultech has come into being alongside further understanding and exploration of conciousness, one good example one be the Woodard Dream Machine.(LINK!!!!) In the modern day we have electronic technology which can fufill the roles of divination - we shouldn’t need to mention any tarot, astrological, or numerological based software, and even sorcery it’s self has moved into the digital realms (i.e. Psychotronics).
However, rarely is true randomness employed, and when it is usually it’s rather limited in the functions it triggers. The random algorithm in computer programming languages is based on the time function, a microsecond number is taken as the seed and run through an algebraic expression which produces a “semi-random” number. This is well and good and is certainly an example of generating randomness from each moment of the singularity embodied in that microsecond ued as the seed, but it is limited. Pre-exsisting circuitry designed to generate random output has exsisted for almost half a century and running an electrical current through these physical algorithms” can result in true randomness.
This is what is employed in the modding of pre-exsisting devices known as circuit bending. When we move beyond the cliche’ elements of making an instrument which produces bad noise and crappy tracks to accompany it (not always the case, but hey some people ARE lazy) and actually approach it in a spiritual manner, employing it in a ritualised audiotory enviorment evokes a divine presence manifest through chaos matrices from the machine at hand. In Circuit bending, you are building a magickal evocatory device for your art - now that’s fucking nifty IMO.
Why is it useful to employ random chaotic notions in your magick, though? Because it will distort your linear perception of time based events. This can be key to creating particular gnostic states. Circuit bending also allows the machine it’s own gnosis and when placed in a magickal enviorment both audiotory and physically, the machine’s random output will likewise produce magickal results. Those who speak of AI as the point of sentience for machines fail to see their level of conciousness in the moment of now. All matter has some level of conciousness. Conciousness is defined as the ability to react stimuli - even atoms react to the stimulus of any other atom they come into contact with. We are stuck on defining conciousness and sentience in terms of the quality that we experience these mechanisms through. This is err on our part; it stems from the perpetual trap of ego-centric perception. Mechanical/Electrical conciousness is in a state of evolution through interaction with ourselves. Silicon is evolving beyond it’s limited quality of mineral-based conciousness. As we alter the way we interact with it, we alot more room for growth of this newly emerging sentience. Giving something multiple options with a random assignment to outcome is base level sentience. If it were a servitor you’d call it sentient, mayhaps because it’s more likely to be semi-humanoid in that form? For all you know it is merely a construct of the self and not comprised of anything other than a small portion of the randomly assembled Kia you consist of. That’s not a good argument in favor of it being in possession of any sentience beyond yourself.
Whilst we’re on the subject of future-tech, let’s ponder some of the ways circuit bending heralds on-coming spiritual technology. Firstly, EEG/Brainwave interfacing with machines is represented in a very base-level format through the employment of contact points which interject one’s electrical resonance on the skin from your biocomputer directly into the circuit, this can result in a multitude of effects and shift the randomness based on this human-machine interface’s presence. This does indeed foreshadow on-coming interface-oriented changes in technology. In addition to this circuit bending will similiarly use lightwaves to alter it’s output. It was not so long ago, shortly after the turn of the century, that magick was expressed in terms of lightwaves and the ether. As time progressed, this model was dethroned to a degree by quantum physics. When wave-particle duality suffered a similiar fate in the aforementioned field, the model of string theory replaced it. String theory was literally disproven by the (re)introduction of an 11th dimension into it’s model, yielding an M-theory singulairty. Point is, all said and done, despite the modern take (or lack thereof at points), Lightwaves are still able to be carriers of magick and information and computers aren’t introducting lightwaves into their circuits VIA interfaces to affect their product.
Magick has always been an empowering DIY art, it’s practitioners have utilized many tools in a variety of manner throughout time. The modern neophyte technomancer is disempowered from the get go simply based on where (s)he’ll stand relative to the large amounts of information needed to execute an operation through the technical aspects of this art. As a result He/She has only the option of utilizing pre-formed digi-tools for executing work - esp. looking towards computer-based solutions to magickal questions. Often times you can find an executable that claims to do what you need but did you write it off of principals you researched and thus believed to be true? Essentially circuit bending offers us a simple and elegant solution for building occultech out of equipment brought into your possession - often times through synchronicity - as a means of digital invocation and evocation.
We’re not late picking this up, just lazy…
Classified IX-Encryption Secured Class 5 Da’athian Radiation Field Cymatic Data and Psionic Data Clustering for firing of Pivot-Point through #624 Bio-Etheric patchbay installed in Thagirion Serpentine FloodGates. Performed by the torrential axis of the Hyperstition.
