Missiverna #28
Hej!
Veckans skörd av saker jag fann intressant. Hoppas något faller dig på läppen.
- "Writefull is a light-weight app that uses data from Google Books (5+ million books) and the Web to give you language support."
- "TransProse is the first iteration of a program that finds different emotions throughout different novels and programmatically creates music based on those values."
The Physics arXiv Blog skriver:
But perhaps most interesting is the possibility of finding songs that best capture the emotions in different parts of the novel. That would require a kind of inverse TransProse—a way of analysing the emotional content of music and mapping it onto a book.
Ett papper (PDF) om detta kommer tydligen att presenteras på en konferens i Göteborg i april. Lyssna på fler exempel på Soundcloud-sidan för Transprose. Min favorit är nog musiken till The Road, för precis så där känns den.
- Också: Listen to Wikipedia.
- Slate: "The Road, The Corrections, and More, Imagined as Adorable Children’s Books". - Jen Lowe: "I've put my heartbeat on the internet."
- "Keybase will be a public directory of publicly auditable public keys. All paired, for convenience, with unique usernames."
- Big Data, informationsvisualisering och machine learning möter...fåglar! BirdCast från The Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
We propose to develop two innovative machine-learning techniques: Collective Graphical Models (CGMs) and Semi-Parametric Latent Process Models (SLPMs). When combined, these models will reconstruct and predict the behavior of ~400 species of migrating birds across North America. - Om du inte sett Tom Sachs instruktionsfilm om hur man knollar så rekommenderar jag den! Apropå Jason Kottkes sammanställning.
- Om du vill ha ett eget IFTTT kanske detta kan vara något: "Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf."
- Libraries Without Borders har tillsammans med UNHCR och Philippe Starck skapat Ideas Box, ett slags hyfsat bärbart bibliotek som kan användas i bl.a. flyktingläger. Från Wall Street Journal:
The so-called Ideas Box, designed by Philippe Starck, contains 15 tablet computers and four laptops with satellite Internet connections; 50 e-readers and 5,000 e-books; 250 printed books; a movie projector, screen and 100 films; chairs, tables and board games. - Washington Post: "This is one of the weirdest workplaces in the U.S. government — both for where it is and for what it does.
- Kanske mest för biblioteks-folks, men Matthew Reidsmas prat om "Holistic UX" innehåller mycket intressant.
Nästa vecka är jag på resande fot, så jag kommer förmodligen inte hinna missivera något.
Toodledo!
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Erik Stattin
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