Visual Technologies, Cyberpunk, Common Core, Japanese Cheerleader Robots, and Intimidating Classical Music

Recorded October 5, 2014. Produced October 12, 2014. "Posted" November 1, 2014.

Listen to the podcast:

Chat

• Ebola leaves Adam awake betwixt his sweaty sheets.

  Science-Based Medicine

• Dave’s got new headphones, but can’t hear hisself. (Now using LineIn, a pretty sweet little app.)

  LineIn for Mac.

Points of Note

• David described ROC curves wrong a little bit.
• Last time was a long ass episode. Dave apologizes, because he feels insecure having talked so much about his research.

Cyberpunk!

• Google glass
• Oculus Rift
• Snow Crash: Metaverse and {People who record their experience and upload it to Metaverse} And Google Glass makes this real!
• More about Neal Stephenson
• Tad William Otherland series
• Median ages
• Willaim Gibson

Common Core

• The Bill Gates quote
• Want an emphatic and logically inconsistent argument?
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
• The difference between standards and curricula.

Robots!

• Thousand robot swarm
• http://youtu.be/xK54Bu9HFRw
• Fanbots
• Japanese robot cheerleaders
  • MuRata is the hardware company that built these, and their webpage showing the cheerleaders is awesome. Keep scrolling!
• Creepy and mildly NSFW: suggestive dancing robot

Something to Watch

• John Adams Series

Ted Push

Daria van den Bercken
Adam mentions a classical collective the does open jams in Portland.

 

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Image credits: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2770780/Weebles-21st-century-makeover-Robotic-cheerleaders-synchronise-dance-moves-never-fall-over.html#i-b77d47140e622b4b

 

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