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I love to create, to build things. Especially things bringing people together. Here are a couple ideas I’ve been working on lately. If you think any of them are interesting, connect with me. They’re...
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I found five dirhams while cleaning a bag and midway through putting them away, I dropped one, then suddenly wondered how it would look to drop a coin in slow motion. Why not, I opened Slow-Mo camera...
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Google’s Deep Dream Does Instagram
@hoeskelsa Social networks are abuzz with Deep Dream, Google Research’s trippy new inceptionism AI that sequentially enhances what it thinks are key features of images. You can tweak a number of...
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TEDx Music: A Network Visualization
Over the years, TEDx Music has grown from a small collection of a few songs to an exquisitely diverse curated catalog of over 600 tracks on SoundCloud. Getting music out there is no longer enough –...
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A Network Map Arranging Itself
A map created using Quid showing news articles about neuroscience discoveries made possible with DTI (Diffusion Tensor Imaging). DTI reveals tracts of white matter connectivity in the brain, allowing...
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BrainVR: One Step Closer to Visualizing the Brain in Virtual Reality
The three pound organ sitting behind your eyes is nothing short of extraordinary. Symphonic activity among billions of neurons gives rise to thoughts, feelings, and ultimately the perspective and...
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Mapping Ideas with Open Source Handwriting-to-Text Software
Ideas are curious things. You’re going along and suddenly… Boom! An idea. But it wasn’t really out of the blue, was it? Sure, something immediate may have sparked it. The spark came from somewhere....
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A Better World, Backed by Data
It’s politics season in America. This one is particularly bad. I’ll leave off lamenting our lack of endearing candidates and endeavor to destabilize a bit of the unbridled pessimism that springs forth...
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One star’s ash is another sun’s treasure
A friend just shared a quote from Victor Tenbaum: The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up the nebulae, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are star stuff. We can all use a...
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TED 2017: from Me to We
I sit in San Francisco, antisocially staring into a handheld screen, furiously typing to share words surging through my brain before total exhaustion descends and I awake in the morning back in the...
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