crooked indifference

Two 20th Century style icons: A superb vintage photo of...

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:54:51 -0800

Two 20th Century style icons: A superb vintage photo of Françoise Hardy, relaxing and strumming on her lounge chair by Charles + Ray Eames. (via)

(via duerrstein) The Pixies - Hey

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:50:07 -0800

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The Pixies - Hey

moderation: MIT: “Creating a Robot So Alive You Feel Bad About...

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:44:25 -0800

moderation:

MIT: “Creating a Robot So Alive You Feel Bad About Switching It Off”…

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There is ongoing debate about what constitutes life. Synthetic bacteria for example, are created by man and yet also alive. Some go so far as to say that robot “emotions” may already have occurred—that current robots have not only displayed emotions, but in some ways have experienced them.

“We’re all machines,” says Rodney Brooks author of “Flesh and Machines,” and former director of M.I.T.’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, “Robots are made of different sorts of components than we are — we are made of biomaterials; they are silicon and steel — but in principle, even human emotions are mechanistic.” A robot’s level of a feeling like sadness could be set as a number in computer code, he said. But isn’t a human’s level of sadness basically a number, too, just a number of the amounts of various neurochemicals circulating in the brain? Why should a robot’s numbers be any less authentic than a human’s?

One of Brooks of his longtime goals has been to create a robot so “alive” that you feel bad about switching it off. Brooks pioneered the movement that teaching robots how to “learn” was more sensible that trying to program them to automatically do complex things, such as walk. Brooks work has evolved around artificial intelligence systems that learn to do things in a “natural” process like a human baby does. This approach has come to be known as embodied intelligence.

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(via brimichelle) Radiohead - The Bends

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:25:25 -0800

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Radiohead - The Bends

launch for spacecraft #2 is set for today at 4:22PM...

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:21:48 -0800

launch for spacecraft #2 is set for today at 4:22PM PST…

if there arent any delays, ridiculous mission control schedule will take over the next 2-3 weeks of my life.

wish me luck?

guillee:Chrysler Building.

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:26:00 -0800

guillee:Chrysler Building.

schwinn paramount barn find.

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:14:51 -0800

schwinn paramount barn find.

(via jointsandjams) The Roots - Cant Stop This

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:13:27 -0800

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The Roots - Cant Stop This

(via roads2roam:massromantic) i would like to buy...

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:05:13 -0800

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i would like to buy “Lacey” a beer for this bad boy…

Sleeping is giving in, no matter what the time is.

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:00:00 -0800

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TRUTH

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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:05:21 -0800

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I haven't heard from my family in a while

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:19:18 -0800

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… im so sorry areza… ive been watching what has been going on over there pretty closely and im sorry that this fucked up shit happened with your family. for what its worth, my thoughts are with them all…

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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:59:47 -0800

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taperjeangurl: This is my attempt of a Wes Anderson style movie...

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:44:44 -0800

taperjeangurl:

This is my attempt of a Wes Anderson style movie list except with my tumblr faves:

It is in no particular order and there are still lots of other tumblrs that I love but this is my first shout out :)

Te quiero mucho! Besos desde España!

im glad to make the cut!