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Tumblr is to Imagery as del.icio.us is to URLs

In Weblog on 4 April 2007 tagged croutons, del.icio.us, Links, sxsw, tumblr with 3 comments

In his now-famous style of ranting at SXSW this year, Bruce Sterling berated the incessant flows of information on the web, saying it's, "like watching you get beaten to death with croutons".

I'm inclined to agree that sometimes it can all be a bit much. But I also don't care - I've got a lot of personal enjoyment and utility out of posting links to del.icio.us, and it seems like a lot of other people get value from reading them - either directly, or on aggregate.

I've been trying out Tumblr recently and I'm thrilled that it's allowing me to do the same thing but with images and videos, and the occasional quote. It's a very free and easy way to keep track of things I think are noteworthy. It turns out I don't want to find most of these things again, so the lack of tags and other things is fine - a blessing, even. If you're the kind of person who likes a steady stream of croutons, feel free to read along at randometc.tumblr.com.

When life gives you lemons, suck 'em, honestly, lemons taste awesome. When the web gives you croutons - feast!

Travel Time Tube Map mentioned in New Statesman

In Processing, Weblog on 21 November 2006 tagged Applets, Links, London, magazines, Processing, Processing.org, references, Travel, Tube, Weblog with no comments

My Travel Time Tube Map is mentioned at the end of Peter Ackroyd's City of Illusions article for the New Statesman.  Here's a direct link if you've just arrived from there:

Agents, Behaviour, Emergence and Embodiment

In Imported, Uncategorized, Weblog on 3 November 2004 tagged Agents, Artificial-Intelligence, Books, Embodiment, Emergence, Links, Notes, Simulation, Software, Talks, Teaching with no comments

Here are my online references from a lecture I gave today at UCL.

• Wikipedia on AI, includes a paragraph on "neats" and "scruffies".
• Desire-lines & Emergent paths: a light-hearted presentation of a predictive model / apparently it wasn't Berkeley, Irvine, or the Oregon Experiment who tried to use it... has anyone actually tried it?
• Craig Reynolds' boids / Steering Behaviours (the individual steering behaviour examples are essential viewing) / an HP labs tech report on not evolving collective behaviour for fish / well explained pseudocode for boids / my quick 2D processing implementation of the pseudocode (commented code and 3D version available on request).
• Pedestrian Simulation: Alasdair Turner's EVAS agents / my post on the MSc VE weblog about a pedestrian sim project in the Alps / Crowd Dynamics (the design is terrible, but click main menu and scroll down to the "Myriad" section).
• Brandeis's DEMO lab: The Golem Project / Evolutionary Design / Evolution of Buildable Objects (LEGO)
• Stigmergy: a good academic intro (pdf, HTML summary here) / Dan Ladley's termite constructions.
• Karl Sims: evolved creatures / the "blockies" MPEG / a retrospective.
• The books I mentioned, all very accessible: Valentino Braitenberg's Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology / Mitchel Resnick's Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams / Steven Johnson's Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software.
• The software/libraries I mentioned: steering behaviours work has spun off into a free open source library called Open Steer / Breve is a 3D environment for the simulation of decentralized systems and artificial life / Framsticks doesn't require programming knowledge / there is a demo of BEAST at David Gordon's homepage.

This will all be assimilated into my del.icio.us page shortly.