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Daniel Estrada

Robot. Made of smaller robots.

I've written under the handle Eripsa for over a decade on various blogs and forums. Today I do my most of my blogging and research at Digital Interface and on my G+ stream.
I'm interested in issues at the intersection of the mind and technology. I write and post on topics ranging from AI and robotics to the politics of digital culture.
Specific posting interests are described in more detail in this post.
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It is somewhat unfashionable to talk about thinkers that inform your work, as opposed to issues. But philosophers in particular tend to map out the problem space by reference to each position's strongest defenders. So I'm going to list a series of names here, not just to cite their influence on my work, but really to triangulate on what the hell it is I think I'm doing. 
Turing, Quine, Heidegger, Dan Dennett, Andy Clark, Bruce Sterling, Bruno Latour, Larry Lessig, Clay Shirky, OWS, and Google. 
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About 1 week ago Before the Internet

#digitalvalues   #digitalhumanism   #attentioneconomy   #privacy  

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2974#comic



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About 13 weeks ago I just hit 10,000 followers. It's a meaningless milestone, I know, but I put quite a bit of effort and time into my writing on this stream and it's good to use these meaningless excuses to reflect on that work. At 6000 followers I wrote up a summary of my posting interests (http://goo.gl/x1fyx). I'm going to use this excuse to talk a bit more about where I am and how I got here. 

I remember when G+ launched in the summer of 2011; I was teaching my philosophy of technology course at Princeton, for the Center for Talented Youth (a program through Johns Hopkins University). I remember quite clearly talking with Jon Lawhead about how the internet battle lines were being drawn up, how high the stakes were, and what resources would soon be at our disposal. This was just before OWS, but it was in the wake of the Arab Spring and smack in the middle of the Egyptian Revolution  and my head was swimming with ideas about our tumultuous technological situation and the many potential futures it might
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About 9 weeks ago Internet Usage of the World

via: http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html

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About 8 weeks ago The digital age is an impending global party
but now we only see through a glass darkly
#ifihadglass  I'd spark the flame
and give the network of things a name
Augmented reality gives way to #attentioneconomy  



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About 12 weeks ago Come here you little basterd!!
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About 13 weeks ago Is there a season for births?

> First, see that hole in the data in early July? That’s right, fewer babies are born on the 4th (and 5th) of July than on other days that month. That’s a hint that the data come from US births. You might know that the 4th is a big holiday in the United States. But how does a fetus know it’s a holiday?

> What we’re seeing here is in part an effect of scheduled births. Imagine a mom-to-be on the phone, scheduling an induction or a Caesarian section: “Oh, not the 4th … how about the following Monday?” Or an obstetrician: “I’m taking the 4th off, don’t schedule anything that day.”
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> But more than cultural factors drive this seasonality in birth. In nonhuman animals, the amount of light each day, or photoperiod, underlies seasonal cycles, including birth. If we evolved to be more fertile at certain times, chances are good that photoperiod would be the signal for that timing — and, in fact, the data seem to agree. Birth seasonality is
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About 9 weeks ago THE UNIVERSE IS LOPSIDED, WITH A COLD SPOT

The Planck Mission found two big surprises in the cosmic microwave background:

• This radiation is slightly different on the two sides of the sky!  This is not due to the fact that the Earth is moving relative to the average position of galaxies.  That fact does make the radiation look hotter in the direction we're moving.  But that produces a simple 'dipole moment' in the temperature map.  If we subtract that out, it seems there are real differences between the two sides of the Universe... and they are complex, and interesting, and aren't explained by the usual model of the Universe!  

• There is a 'cold spot' that seems too big to be caused by chance. 

Paolo Natoli from the University of Ferrara, Italy writes:

"The Planck data call our attention to these anomalies, which are now more important than ever: with data of such quality, we can no longer neglect them as
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About 4 days ago How a muscle contracts
Or: Your food is made of fractals

> When a muscle receives the chemical signal to contract, countless protein chains within it shorted their constituent links. Within a single muscle, tens of millions of protein chains can change in this way, shortening hundreds of thousands of cvells. The forces from these contracting cells cause the larger bundles containing them to contract as well. The force from each bundle's contraction is in turn communicated to the next higher level of bundling. 

> The end result is a contraction of a collagen sheath that surrounds the entire muscle and is anchored (through the tendons) to the bone. this complex structure allows muscles to transfer the force of contracting proteins to where they do the work moving an animal's joints. 

// I hung out with a chef friend this weekend who happened to own this amazing set of food science books called Modernist Cuisine (http://goo.gl/qjdS). The books were absolutely b
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About 6 weeks ago > In an agreement announced today, the City of New York will pay more than $365,000 to settle a lawsuit bought by people whose property was destroyed when the New York Police Department raided Zuccotti Park and evicted Occupy Wall Street on November 15, 2001. [sic]

> Occupy Wall Street had brought the suit against the city over the destruction of the People's Library, a collection of about 5,500 donated books that formed a central part of the community that sprung up for two months in the park. In the eviction, many of the books were completely destroyed, and others were so badly damaged as to be unusable. Occupy Wall Street claimed $47,000 in damages, all of which the city agreed to pay today.

via +Rebecca Spizzirri 

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/04/city_settles_la.php





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About 6 weeks ago Professor Lawrence Lessig rules.
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