From 47d2d8faca0dc199b8350af7972269947617b4ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan-Erik Rediger Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 20:08:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] new post: Things I read, Week 10 --- _posts/2018-03-07-things-i-read-week-10.md | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2018-03-07-things-i-read-week-10.md diff --git a/_posts/2018-03-07-things-i-read-week-10.md b/_posts/2018-03-07-things-i-read-week-10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e8ada9 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2018-03-07-things-i-read-week-10.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +permalink: "/{{ year }}/{{ month }}/{{ day }}/things-i-read-week-10" +title: "Things I read, Week 10" +published_date: "2018-03-07 20:07:00 +0100" +layout: post.liquid +data: + route: blog +--- + +This post is part of a [new experiment this year](/2018/01/08/things-i-read-week-2/index.html): +Trying to briefly collect articles/posts/code/documentation I read in the past week and add some comments for things I consider important. + +### Article: [As we may think](https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/23/as-we-may-think/) + +A 1945 article by Vannevar Bush, summarized on _the morning paper_, about how scientists might work in the future. +He imagines a world were researches constantly collect documents and informations in photos or other records and links relevant parts together. +We pretty much have that part by now. Everyone is taking pictures of everything, we have a web of interlinked documents (the [WWW](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web)). +But Bush has one more idea for that future: A trail of thought through all those documents and links. +It's interesting how we now have his imagined future, but we still lack important parts to trace back our own thoughts. + + +### Article: [How the rapper Dessa’s turn to neuroscience inspired her new album, Chime](https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/23/17021626/dessa-chime-music-neuroscience-psychology-love-philosophy) + +The rapper Dessa did some neuroscientific research and experiments on herself to analyse how her brain is dealing with thoughts about an ex-boyfriend she just couldn't let go. +Using high-pitched sounds she was able to stimulate her brain to reduce the activity regarding this boyfriend. +The results are of these experiments are the inspiration for her new album (I still need to listen to that in more detail)