Extraordinary People - Daniel Tammet
Worth watching this entire video… Doing math with shapes, effortlessly - could this be the future of computing? What if computers could “number crunch” looking at shapes instead of actual number...
Posts from April 2007
Kinetic architecture
For a while I have been looking for this building I saw once and never remembered it… It is the Milwaukee Art Museum by Calatrava. Inspiring! The “wings” of the building move like a bird flappin...
"High Tech" Book Launch
Brilliantly executed site… definitely made me want to buy the book! No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July. She also directed a movie called “Me You and Everyone We Know” - my father ...
Ubiquitous Computing for Mobile Devices Final Project
After having two fellow ITPers come up to me asking me if I was a professor I started thinking about the first impressions we have of people and how we perceive ourselves in one way and other people s...
Nature of Code Final Idea
For my final I decided to continue my “Male Female” code by adding food, reproduction, and genetic algorithms. Here are some of the basic rules I am imagining: Male and Females are attracted to...
Expanding Interactive Video Final
Going to continue with my Eye Tracking idea… here are some pictures of the device I have built… Eye Tracking Need to change/enhance the application: Improve eye tracking code Edge detection on...
Interesting debate about God
Could not resist but to post this here: “Are Humans Hard-Wired to Believe in a Higher Being?” “Some scientists are calling religion the great equalizer and point out that similar areas of the br...
New York Philharmonic
Last night Caleb, Patricia, Scott, James, Gretchen, and I went to the see the New York Philharmonic at the Lincoln Center. An amazing performance by Russian pianist Radu Lupu. It was so soothing to he...
Hawk in Washington Square Park
What are all these people looking at? After seeing some feather flying around and looking up, I saw it as well - a hawk in the middle of the city! Legacy links from the original WordPress post ...