[decades ago when a gradeschooler went on a museum tour of Glensheen Mansion, located in Duluth, Minnesota. what amazed me was at that age was the level of luxury achieved by the extremely wealthy, in comparison to ordinary people. this was captured in a magnificent shower that had twenty shower heads and body jets, in 1908 (potentially involving gold). this is context for a recent 'typological' discovery when on Amazon, where these kinds of shower arrays are now being sold as normal fixtures (example url follows)... shower panel http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Home-Improvement-Shower-Panels/zgbs/hi/68... Glensheen Historic Estate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glensheen_Historic_Estate what i think is interesting about this is how over time these values or luxuries even, migrate towards the larger population, once-middleclass, and that a level of opulence exists where ordinary people live like kings and queens via these vary many details of conventional life. in that, you do not need to be a baron to have 10 showerheads if that is a significant priority yet it may be one of many and eventually establish itself as a new standard for bathroom fixtures and so it can be tied to how it is valued, its use, is it really better than a simpler solution. and under this is an unrecognized issue of infrastructure, water ecosystems, regulatory policies, water quality, and water conservation that cannot be disconnected from the artifact as idea. so too computers with powerplants and pollution and energy wars, and so on. it just surprised me to see this on Amazon after several decades, and remembering how amazing that shower was of a wealthy person from yesteryear, and now an approximation of that technology exists as another choice for shoppers, more than a century later. and how it seemed to indicate various parallels, yet how underlying factors may also not be dealt with at the same time something appears as if progress when removed, isolated from its context. in other words, perhaps it is like an electric razor that had efficiency to replace a safety razor, yet today they are sold with chemicals that need to be repurchased again and again to keep it working (auto-cleaning cartridges) and thus a secondary 'blades' requirement, more and more to keep the thing working, and it involves additional effort to _manage the device. thus, what of televisions from CRT to digital and increased bureaucracy or other technical issues related to computers, making them less efficient or effective as tools, or more involving time and energy to manage or configure settings. and thus, what if there is hard water and not only one nozzle gets blocked, but eight, and all need to be cleaned or replaced, etc. perhaps that is the essence of friction-free purchasing without connectivity to other ecosystem issues. it can be excluded from the analysis, the innovation occurring in some ways, efficiency, while in others it may be a loss of function or additional routine that is more trouble than its worth. so too, technology in general, additional settings, versus artifacts and tools that actually work as they are designed to and are exceptionally well functioning, removed of errors, etc. who knows if the 'advanced options' of the shower panel are worth the investment, though the question may be- do you need to be rich to keep up with the eventual upkeep expenses, if not troubleshooting and maintenance.] // "deep neural network" machine learning algorithm. regarding // knowing what sound source to focus in on, wonder if gyroscope // or accelerometer may help determine or preference directionality Study reveals potential breakthrough in hearing technology http://phys.org/news/2013-11-reveals-potential-breakthrough-technology.html [quote] "That means that hearing-impaired people who had the benefit of this algorithm could hear better than students with no hearing loss," Healy said. [unquote] (note: once read a remarkable statistic now forgotten regarding the projected need for hearing aids in young adults due to mp3 players and personal audio electronics, perhaps to include cellphones even, that was resulting in hearing loss issues on a massive scale. in other words, hearing aids are the future for entire generations, due to noise & listening to loud music whether on headphones or at concerts with huge loud amps, etc. guess when the musicians playing are themselves dealing with hearing loss it might be considered a side-effect of the approach to musical production even. though perhaps everything, TV, phone, traffic, (now cannot even take a walk without having someone alone who is talking out loud to themselves, only to realize they are using a cellphone involved in a remote conversation. combine this with those who view screens while walking outside, and a form of willful blindness and deafness appears to exist as people move in private bubbles of reality). [&] Loss: Is Loud Music Making Teens Deaf? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20014372-10391704.html (note: this is an example of the statistics though what i remember included examination of multiple generations, all having increased and severely premature hearing loss specifically due to electronics and the noisy environment, where nerve cells for hearing are being killed off via sound-based activities; the irony that music 'listening' leads to loss of hearing, etc.) South Africa cemeteries to microchip tombstones http://phys.org/news/2013-11-south-africa-cemeteries-microchip-tombstones.ht... Broken windows theory // recontextualize with OS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory ~Greenwaldian Theorem // a^2 + b^2 > c^2 (via digg) http://wikibin.org/articles/greenwaldian-theorem.html First-Ever Hyperspectral Photo of Auroras http://petapixel.com/2012/12/01/first-ever-hyperspectral-photo-of-auroras/ ' The NORUSCA II can switch between 41 different optical bands in a matter of microseconds, allowing scientists to detect things in the atmosphere based on their “light fingerprint.” ' [in-article link] Researchers Turn an Ordinary Canon 5D Into a Hyperspectral Camera http://petapixel.com/2011/12/19/researchers-turn-an-ordinary-canon-5d-into-a... note: this last issue has potential relevance to solar astronomy, because solar telescopes today using h-alpha filters (such as Coronado Solarscopes) need to be tuned to one area of the sun, its surface or its edges, which results in other regions becoming less focused. my question for this has been if a holographic chamber could be made that can focus in multiple 'tuned regions' simultaneously and then merge them optically in a single image that then is the basis for capturing images of the sun and its activity. should be possible though a double focusing mechanism or another approach with mirrors is likely required to allow for it. // backgrounder; multidimensional hyperspectral 'data cubes', use in // astronomy, mining & geology, ecology, food processing, surveillance, Hyperspectral imaging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspectral_imaging [quote] Hyperspectral sensors look at objects using a vast portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Certain objects leave unique 'fingerprints' across the electromagnetic spectrum. These 'fingerprints' are known as spectral signatures and enable identification of the materials that make up a scanned object. [endquote] // property, boundaries of individual custom manufacture... How A Geek Dad And His 3D Printer Aim To Liberate Legos (digg) http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/04/05/how-a-geek-dad-and-his-... "A Lego spokesperson says the company has no problem with Levin and Sims’ work but is keeping an eye out for printed objects that infringe on its brand. Neither Hasbro nor any of the smaller companies that sell construction toys responded to requests for comment. So far the pair haven’t received a cease-and-desist letter." (also, see comment regarding printer specs, feasibility) interesting quote from article: Personal Kill (via digg) http://www.themorningnews.org/gallery/personal-kill [quote] "BG/OS: It seems that the military’s answer {to how should our military train if not for these simulations?} is to invest in technology that allows for more automated, remote-controlled units; surveillance; and weapons like robots and drones in any imaginable form in order to avoid human casualties on the side of the military and in order to control from the distance. Next to other things, this also indicates an increasing militarization of cities and public communities in general, because single individuals are the target. But drone pilots get PTSD too, and war zones or conflicts can’t be controlled by machines. Automation seems still to go only so far and the distance of the flying eye can trigger the application of violence much easier than the immediacy of human encounter." [endquote] // parameters, boundaries, identity, ecosystems, shared consciousness. // missing issues in neuro & computing: understanding of perspective A Neuroscientist’s Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/christof-koch-panpsychism-consciou... [note: i had a computational model for achieving this through parallelism of matched patterns, local-global computing to function beyond the capacity of the human brain, all 'transistors' interconnected structurally, via looping N-value logical evaluation into shared scaffolding that exists as an ecological computation; concept of crystal ball computing.] [note also: permeability of surveillance within todays bounded, finite PCs could indicate a type of emergent consciousness that is surveillance, as collective awareness or tending toward super- or supra-organism, yet again bounded, constrained to few parameters vs. unleashing potential interconnections, allowing that to govern, thus keeping it contained and under control, to keep things in the existing paradigm, manageable by a given ideology etc] // consider the following headline.... iPad Mini displays fewer colors than does iPad Air, says report Though it boasts a Retina display, the new iPad Mini is still stuck with the same color palate found in the first edition, says Anandtech. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57612752-94/ipad-mini-displays-fewer-colors... [to me there is something 'meta' about this that translates into a larger framework. perhaps at its most abstract, how tools themselves are bounded by the ideas held inside of them, and thus more and more speed of processing may still be rely upon a particular limiting approach, even while appearing as if an upgrade or greater functionality. so what if the fundamentals are off or something is constrained. and how much of planned obsolescence in manufacturing is based on similar techniques, if locked CPUs or software or non-innovating product categories that could likely include most everything electronic, if sustaining false or warped ideology] Invisible Fields. Geographies of radio waves http://issuu.com/actar/docs/invisiblefields Astrophysicists tackle the Sun and one of physics' biggest unsolved problems http://phys.org/news/2013-11-astrophysicists-tackle-sun-physics-biggest.html "Scientists have proposed two main theories to explain why the temperature of the gas in the corona, which lies above the solar surface, soars to over 1 million degrees Kelvin even though the surface of the sun is a relatively cool 6,000 degrees. (The center of the sun is 15 million degrees.)" --- colorshift examples --- test videos to document colorshift properties using LED color light and different colored objects for a project that was canceled. these are overly long and very boring though demonstrate certain principles that could be useful. (basic research) VIDEO: juggling balls (2:27) https://www.dropbox.com/s/t8z4gnvwjfdpsx7/P4270002.AVI VIDEO: juggling rings (4:51) https://www.dropbox.com/s/pq9qaszavqdgl2c/P4270003.AVI VIDEO: juggling clubs (3:28) https://www.dropbox.com/s/1v3on6t2g4p0346/P4270006.AVI the bigger idea involved venn logic and various balloon colors as a way to visualize a model of consciousness i was exploring via 'balloon octopii' to translate ideas of pseudo-truth and of various limits (and processing of concepts as molecules) and parameters. here are some of the octopus images. i wanted to make a 'brain' of multiple colored balloons for each octopus, having different venn color compositions, and then photograph them together under the same color light, as if ~resonance of /shared patterning/ to model this relation via thinking. pT/T modeling (note: REG noisefield for emergent pattern match) A=A/B https://www.dropbox.com/s/47icp2cxeu63fyn/ballooning%20ex15.jpg octopii communicating within noisefield via shared/unshared patterns https://www.dropbox.com/s/umakwtjv0pjm4y5/ballooning%20ex14.jpg Platonic forms, ideas as molecules, tuned into as consciousness https://www.dropbox.com/s/by6ix6rvgnfllj2/ballooning%20ex23.jpg so here was the larger idea... looking at balloons (translucent, opaque, and transparent) as set combinations that have various color-based permutations based on their configuration. that this could be explored, the videos here only tests, first steps never developed further. VIDEO: venn balloons and colorshift test (3:00) https://www.dropbox.com/s/vkm8fno5oki6u8x/P5020007.AVI VIDEO: venn balloons and colorshift tests (3:43) https://www.dropbox.com/s/cfwttfhq1g9bivu/P5020010.AVI VIDEO: venn balloons and colorshift tests (4:16) https://www.dropbox.com/s/j0bsu4kisrte4e5/P5020012.AVI VIDEO: venn balloons and colorshift tests (0:42) https://www.dropbox.com/s/81qdyvffejtuht3/P5020013.AVI two things to note: as mentioned, the venn issue and set theory, and ultimately experiments for balloon-in-balloon experiments (red balloon _nested inside blue balloon, then illuminate with various color sequences) as this relates to balloon-by-balloon dynamics (overlapping of colors, even picking up of colors by transparent balloons or tinge or color-casting). -and- also, the molecular aspect as if electron-tunnel microscopy or some other device looking at atomic formations at some level of abstraction. so the balloons were also going to be explored for these molecular forms (none of that in these images, though it is a natural attribute of latex balloons (tap the maple tree -> maple syrup, tap the rubber tree --> latex for balloons). VIDEO: crude molecule test, failed to capture effect (5:21) https://www.dropbox.com/s/eu51e87ucmqfcea/P5020017.AVI VIDEO: colorshift multicolor thread patterns (4:01) https://www.dropbox.com/s/dllf4vs5w8cmkjt/P5020003.AVI : : : text transformation : : : (errata-scramble) nopqrstuvwxyz/ uodbɹsʇnʌʍxʎz/ uobdɹsʇnʌʍxʎz nodbj5fn^mxh2 W vv M ʌʌ M ʌʌ W vv \/\/ /\/\ \/ /\ \//\/ /\/\ \/\/ /\ \/ /\\/\ {educational fair-use of copyright, 2013} AU <---> FeS₂