algorithms

  • Fields of Light

    Fields of Light

    Light reflects differently off near and faraway objects. It’s all about the light.

  • Nothing Gets Solved: Talking with Kevin Nguyen

    Nothing Gets Solved: Talking with Kevin Nguyen

    Kevin Nguyen discusses his debut novel, NEW WAVES.

  • The Rumpus Interview with Louisa Hall

    The Rumpus Interview with Louisa Hall

    Author Louisa Hall discusses her latest novel, Speak, the future of artificial intelligence, and how playing squash taught her a love of literary technique.

  • Weekly Geekery

    Mars: The ultimate back up planet. Goodbye, ladyblogging. How does social media walk the line between enabling hate speech and not giving it a megaphone. The Kindle cannot kill the bookstore. NOT EVER! Using algorithms to buy art. Connecting into…

  • Weekly Geekery

    Are you a science dummy? Do you need to be happy? There is an app for that. The science of your face. Algorithms don’t know best. The history of Silicon Valley.

  • Weekly Geekery

    Examining continuity on screen and in our minds. How to constantly work without actually working. Buzzfeed is not so special after all. (So says the Atlantic.) Algorithms are to creativity in the 21st century as Gutenberg’s press was to creativity in…

  • Every Noise at Once

    All-powerful algorithms strike again! This time, they bring visualization of relations between all genres of music from Chinese Traditional to Dirty South Rap to Turbo Folk. Each genre includes a sample of its stylings with further breakdowns of the artists…