2023 - To Read

Mathematics was the cornerstone of the Industrial Revolution. A new paradigm of measurement and calculation, more than scientific discovery, built industry, modernity, and the world we inhabit today.

Read Mehan Jayasuriya’s review of the album.

Titled Maman, the bronze, steel and marble arachnid will be the looming centrepiece of the Art Gallery of NSW’s major summer exhibition

Mobile, ubiquitous, and immersive computing appear poised to transform visualization, data science, and data-driven decision making.

A 93-minute epic of modern classical and drone partly inspired by a '90s religious TV drama.

Mitchell Cohen explores the problematic afterlife of a foundational text of Western Marxism, .“History and Class Consciousness” by Georg Lukács....

Joseph LeDoux on writing his new book, "The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human."

We are one step closer to fully private internet searches.

Johann Neem reviews Jessi Streib’s new book, “The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College.”...

Onward to look for more lost continents.

Photographer Laura Pannack drew inspiration from a folktale about a place outside time to create haunting images with villagers​ in Romania

So far, it's got just two DAWs behind it - Bitwig Studio and PreSonus Studio One - but DAWproject's creators hope the format will become a new open standard that lets you move projects between software.

If you're ready to make visuals for music using Bitwig Studio and powerhouse dataflow 3D/generative tool TouchDesigner, we've got free videos and a free workshop today. Yo dawg, it's a modular tool for your modular DAW that connects to your modular visual tool so you can modulate mod makings with your modules while you modulate.

It's a hardware module. But it's also a software module in the free (paid plug-in) host VCV Rack. The do-everything, clock-based multipurpose voltage-sending Pamela's Pro Workout is the latest module from ALM Busy Circuits to make the hardware-software crossover. And it joins a number of modules there - many of them free (including some news there, too).

Synplant 2: it's still leafy and organic - just more so. Now it has AI-powered sonic analysis and generation which - can sound completely glitchy and unexpected. It has a DNA view full of parameters. It's weirder than ever, from top to bottom. So here are some more insights from Magnus Lidström about how the original 2009 Synplant led to 2023's Synplant-further-out follow-up.

This live visual newcomer is off to a promising start: live DMX lighting, generative visuals (with video and photos), MIDI control, Ableton Link - and it's free and open source. It's coded in TypeScript, with downloads for macOS and Windows; Linux promised soon.

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My grandpa -- my Missouri grandpa, who played slide guitar to me when I got homesick on the rare occasions I stayed with them -- grew up on a farm without electricity. He went past eighth grade, which really mattered to him. He loved that I played harp, which he always called "elegant," in an extremely Missouri accent, an accent that hugged every syllable. Since living in California, I never hear this way of speaking. Recently I heard his accent on TV and cried unexpectedly, ugly crying, startli

The Problem With General Purpose Programming Languages The idea of GPLs (General Purpose programming Languages) was developed when it was believed that the act of building languages was time consuming and difficult and a black art.

The article, Analyzing Data 180,000x Faster with Rust, first presents some unoptimized Python code, and then shows the process of rewriting and optimizing the code in Rust, resulting in a 180,000x speed-up. The author notes:

One reason textbooks can be frustrating for practitioners.

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