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Photo Blog: Levitated Mass Sculpture at Sunset
This is our photo of the Levitated Mass artwork (Wikipedia link) at sunset near our corporate headquarters at the famous LACMA art museum in Los Angeles, California. This photo was originally posted to our IG feed, where it remains one of our all-time most popular posts. (The row of palm trees in the background has been cropped in this version, as this was originally formatted for IG’s aspect ratio.) We thought we’d share it on our blog as well. (more…)… Read the restSpanish conquistadors, armies, aliens, history, war, and data science?
How is a painting about conquistadors from Spain related to information or data science? And, by extension, armies or war? What about Sagan’s fear of advanced civilizations in the form of alien or extraterrestrial conquistadors from space? How can data science be used to study history? Avid readers of our recent posts will have a clue, but it’s been covered in some recent popular books and TV documentaries. (Hint: it also relates to our Sagan posts. This includes our discussion of the Kardashev scaleĀ as extended by Sagan, which measures a civilizations progress in terms of energy and information. It’s interesting to contrast these ideas with mathematical models of civilization collapse such as those proposed by Tainter. These topics directly address our own, as one civilization’s progress can be another’s collapse. Sagan was concerned about what might happen if advanced space-fearing civilizations found us; would it be a replay of the conquistadors?… Read the restMandelbrot set: cellular automatons & fractal islands
Mandelbrot set: fractal math. After spending some time in space, we wanted to come back down to Earth. Continuing on our previous photos, should we talk about Conquistador economics or the invention of writing and 3,000 year-old Chinese sunspot observations? First let’s talk about von Neumann machines and cellular automatons. This is the famous Mandelbrot set, an image generated from pure mathematics. There are an infinite number of beautiful images inside the Mandelbrot set. The Mandelbrot set isn’t normally constructed as a cellular automaton (although it certainly can be as cellular automatons are Turing-complete for the computer scientists out there.) However, many other famous fractals are easily expressed as cellular automatons. The two fields are closely related, as many fractals (including Mandelbrot) are related to bifurcation problems on recursive functions (famously related to automaton simulations). We’ll just note for now that Cellular Automatons are another name for von Neumann machines, which you may remember from Arthur C.… Read the restPhoto of Earth by Nasa? Nope. Astroengineering.
Is this a photo of Earth by Nasa? Nope. In this artist’s conception, the Moon is geoengineered/astroengineering by an advanced civilization to be more like Earth. Will inducing artificial earthquakes through geoengineering or someday save lives, or is it too dangerous? Will we someday geoengineer the and the stars, as discussed on recent science documentaries? These were discussed in our earlier blog post on fracking and geoengineering, for which this was the featured image. Photo Credit: Daein Ballard/WikiMedia/CC-BY-SA-3 Post and some comments below may be synced from our original Instagram version. Instagram likes: (more…)… Read the restRecent Posts
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