A Fiber Artist on Lopez Island: December 2013 It's going to be one of those random days today. I woke up thinking about Babylon (I watched a documentary on it last night before going to bed) and the amazing influence it's great thinkers have had on us today. The Babylonian mathematical system was sexagesimal, or base 60. Really, just think about it. DeepDream - a code example for visualizing Neural Networks Posted by Alexander Mordvintsev, Software Engineer, Christopher Olah, Software Engineering Intern and Mike Tyka, Software Engineer Two weeks ago we blogged about a visualization tool designed to help us understand how neural networks work and what each layer has learned. In addition to gaining some insight on how these networks carry out classification tasks, we found that this process also generated some beautiful art. We have seen a lot of interest and received some great questions, from programmers and artists alike, about the details of how these visualizations are made. We have decided to open source the code we used to generate these images in an IPython notebook, so now you can make neural network inspired images yourself! The code is based on Caffe and uses available open source packages, and is designed to have as few dependencies as possible.
Surface Pro 3: Common Problems and How to Fix Them Is your Surface Pro 3 on the fritz? If so, you’re in the right place. Here, we examine some of the most common Surface Pro 3 problems that people have been experiencing, and see if we can figure out workarounds or solutions. Related: Microsoft Surface Pro 3 review, Best accessories for your Surface Pro 3 Click on an issue to jump to it: Problem: Random freezing A lot of people have been complaining that their Surface Pro 3 keeps freezing randomly. There’s no common cause, so try to pay attention to what you were doing when the freeze occurred. Possible workaround: Hold down the Power button and the Volume up button for 15 seconds. Other potential solutions: Make sure that your Surface Pro 3’s firmware is completely up to date. Glitch: Cursor disappears Some Surface Pro 3 owners have found that folding the Type Cover keyboard back makes the cursor disappear, and it refuses to return when the keyboard is flipped back around. Workaround: Try removing and reattaching the cover. Workarounds:
10 applications de réalité augmentée pour les élèves La réalité augmentée me fascine depuis un bon moment déjà et je ne suis pas la seule à être impressionnée par cette technologie de plus en plus répandue dans les salles de classe. La réalité augmentée permet la superposition d'un modèle virtuel 3D à la perception que nous avons naturellement de la réalité et ceci en temps réel. Elle permet donc d'enrichir et de bonifier la réalité via un appareil mobile. Ce billet est le premier d'une série d'articles, et de produits numériques (de type clés en main) que je suis en train de vous concocter, afin de faciliter votre prise en main dans vos salles de classe. Si vous désirez expérimenter cette technologie, je vous invite à télécharger les applications suivantes afin de mieux saisir toutes les possibilités pédagogiques. 1. Les élèves peuvent découvrir plusieurs missions interactives à travers des feuilles à colorier. 2. iDinosaurAR-EXTRA (iTunes et Google Play) 3. Les élèves doivent lancer les Doodingues qui sortent des produits. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
IIPImage » Demos Here are a set of demos featuring the various viewers available for the IIPImage server. IIPZoom is flash based. IIPMooViewer uses HTML5 and javascript. JIIP is java based. IIPZoom – Flash Viewer IIPZoom client showing the massive ultra-high resolution image of Blue Marble, Next Generation (86400 x 43200 pixels, RGB, 10.7GB uncompressed TIFF) courtesy of Visible Earth and the NASA Earth Observatory Team. © 2005 NASA. Click the image to see in high resolution this small 30×20 cm 16th Century painting entitled The Lady Praying from the collection of the Louvre museum. Click the image to zoom into this beautiful 29566 x 14321 pixel Hubble telescope image of star birth in the Carina Nebula. Example showcasing the new dynamic watermarking feature introduced in version 0.9.9 of the server. IIPMooViewer – HTML5 Viewer HTML5 based IIPMooViewer for panorama of the Louvre Museum, Paris. Jiip – Java Viewer 3rd Party Clients Alternatively, here is the same image streamed to the Seadragon Ajax client.
Google is working on a project that will test the artistic ability of AI Google is working on a new project to determine if artificial intelligence can ever be truly creative. The project, called Magenta, was unveiled this weekend at Moogest in Durham, North Carolina, Quartz reports. During a presentation at Moogfest, Google Brain researcher Douglas Eck said the goal of the new group is to determine if AI is capable of creating original music and visual art somewhat independently of humans. Can AI be creative? The Magenta team will use Google's open-source machine learning software TensorFlow, and try to "train" AI to make art. A member of the Magenta team, Adam Roberts, demoed a digital synth program that could make music after listening to notes played by a human. The idea itself — that AI can be used to create art — is not new. Magenta will publicly launch at the start of June, Quartz reports. SourceQuartz
Burrows Apps Blog: How to hack Scribd to download documents for free How to download documents for free I was looking at an online document that SOMEONE ELSE UPLOADED and it was very helpful, so I wanted to download it. Scribd however, wanted to charge a daily fee of around $5 dollars to download the content, when it clearly says someone uploaded it. Here was the document that I wanted: For Public ID's(2012): *document ID* = 90924585 ID*/ or ID*/download Insert the number id in the here ^ Sometimes using the first download link is better because it creates a download button. Update(2/18/12): For Private ID's: Example URLs: Right-click > View Page Source > Save as to a document on your computer *Make sure you do this to get the entire "Generated Source" (I used Mozilla FireFox)
Créer de la musique en ligne Aujourd’hui, l’informatique a trouvé sa place dans les studios de musique et nombreux sont les musiciens à s’en inspirer pour leurs compositions. Les ordinateurs étant de plus en plus puissants, il n’est pas rare de voir des groupes avec un portable sur scène ou des machines sophistiquées qui embarquent de l’électronique. C’est donc selon une certaine logique que l’on peut trouver des sites pour composer de la musique en ligne. Je vous propose d’en découvrir quelques-uns. Alors que dans les années 70, il fallait un ordinateur gros comme un réfrigérateur pour enregistrer une seconde de son, aujourd’hui, ces mêmes applications 100 fois plus puissantes se retrouvent dans nos poches avec l’avènement des smartphones et des tablettes numériques. Audiosauna Séquenceur multipistes inspiré des grands standards (Cubase, Logic). Soundation Séquenceur plutôt inspiré cette fois des standards comme Acid ou Ableton Live où l’on crée sa musique à partir de boucles préenregistrées. Save
House Plans and Home Floor Plans at Architectural Designs alt-AI Download James Joyce's Ulysses_ A Study - Old Pirate Bay Type: Books Files: Size: Seeders: Leechers: Info Hash: ddae5f78c0b0396a1b01bb74f3846beb4d0bd396 Stuart Gilbert - James Joyces Ulysses: A Study (Vintage, 1955). 405 pages. Johnny Lists — 12 Websites Where You Can Create Interactive Art by Johnny Webber 1. WeaveSilk.com – Create something soothing. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.