David Benqué @davidbenque@mastodon.social
Designer/Researcher - http://www.davidbenque.com
mainly PhD diary-ing on here - prediction machines, diagrams, and speculative design - 🇫🇷➡️🇳🇱🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺
Unicode may soon get 2,000 hieroglyphics
“You Could Soon Be Able to Text with 2,000 Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs”
🃏Wildcard Question:
Does anyone here into #cgi #rendering #pbr know of a way to visualise a single light ray's bounces in a render? something like the image attached. Could be a #blender script, plugin, research paper, anything!
RCA: The SHOW is in 8 weeks, submit your images NOW! have you thought about patent applications?! and funding rounds?
Goldsmiths:
💡 Add some lines to your #PhD outline for that "yea I totally know what I'm doing" look.
HACK FINANCE - #Art & #Activism - a new mailing list for artists, activists, hackers, journalists, and academics who creatively and critically intervene, investigate, and hack in the financial sector.
This mailing list is for sharing ideas, opportunities, and resources, not too technically.
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Georgina Voss performing tonight in 🇳🇱 :
'Resonance' exploring the narratives, salesmanship, and cult status around notions of 'innovation' and 'inventors'. TAC, Eindhoven; Fri 4th May, 7pm.
🐦🔗 https://twitter.com/gsvoss/status/990878262564925440 (with an FB link inside)
Also got the Pi set up on the home network. Ready to receive the beast and crunch horoscopes all day. It's all happening. #everythinghappenssomuch
I've been enjoying the Hydrogen package for interactive coding in Atom. Half way between a notebook and an IDE. Great for messing around and then either put in production or export as notebook to write it out.
Fully automated the cover of The Monistic Almanac today
$ sh make-cover.sh
and boom:
Morandi & Roscam Abbing #Legacy #Networks Ltd. will host another deep dive into #terminal #networking tools as a way to unpack the politics of the networks during #AMRO2018 in #Linz !
Workshop:
https://www.radical-openness.org/en/programm/2018/maps-not-network-territory
Full programme:
https://www.radical-openness.org/en/program/2018
Just submitted my first ever book chapter draft. This is exactly how I feel.
SHANZHAI ARCHEOLOGY
"THE MAKING OF TECHNOLOGY IN SHENZHEN,
LOCAL AND GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS"
PANEL: 6-9PM, MAY 15TH, 2018,
R. HOGGART BULIDING 137A,
GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
How PhDs radicalise the youth: try spending 3 years with no money + an unlimited supply of books, and *not* becoming a hard-leftist.
This page has an Almanac score of 💣💥✨💫
You: "artificial intelligence"
Me:
Another almanac notebook draft:
🌪💣 The Carbon Prophet 🔮🏭
Forecasting carbon emissions with Facebook Prophet (time series forecasting for business) with data from: 💀https://carbondoomsday.com/
Some books on Archive.org are 'loan' only as Adobe Digital Editions?! I... I... I thought their mission was "to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge." WTF is a digital loan anyway? such disappoint.
💒☉♀☿♃☾🐍 My draft #jupyter notebook implementing electional #astrology in #python is complete. Best dates to get married in the next 365 days, you're welcome!
Next up: another one about when to conduct business, and maybe when to cut your hair.
