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I'm Ian Daniher. This is where I share things I'm excited about.

[itdnhr]

current mood.

[itdnhr]

How can I implement thee, low pass filter, let me count the ways.

continuous time transfer function simulation via an ODE solver

bilinear / Z transform or matched pole/zero transform of said continuous time equation into a discrete time difference equation, followed by successive simulation discrete time simulation

convolution with a windowed sinc filter

multiplication of the frequency domain representation of your signal with the frequency domain representation of a windowed sinc filter

tapped delay line / iterative IIR filters

[disquietingtruths]

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Student-Loan Debt.

Psychopathologizing and Medicating Noncompliance.

Schools That Educate for Compliance and Not for Democracy.

“No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.”

Shaming Young People Who Take Education—But Not Their Schooling—Seriously.

The Normalization of Surveillance.

Television.

Fundamentalist Religion and Fundamentalist Consumerism.

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[itdnhr]

* Resilience instead of strength, which means you want to yield and allow failure and you bounce back instead of trying to resist failure. * You pull instead of push. That means you pull the resources from the network as you need them, as opposed to centrally stocking them and controlling them. * You want to take risk instead of focusing on safety. * You want to focus on the system instead of objects. * You want to have good compasses not maps. * You want to work on practice instead of theory. Because sometimes you don’t why it works, but what is important is that it is working, not that you have some theory around it. * It disobedience instead of compliance. You don’t get a Nobel Prize for doing what you are told. Too much of school is about obedience, we should really be celebrating disobedience. * It’s the crowd instead of experts. * It’s a focus on learning instead of education.

Joi Ito via Wired

[tarensk]

[itdnhr]

A Justice Department representative told congressional staffers during a recent briefing on the computer fraud prosecution of Internet activist Aaron Swartz that Swartz’s “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” played a role in the prosecution, sources told The Huffington Post.

[nonneumann]

Only time will tell if C is the right abstraction for the future, since it was designed for a sequential execution model rooted in Von Neumann architectures and existing design trends suggest increasingly heterogeneous and parallel architectures.

FPGA Programming for the Masses

David F. Bacon, Rodric Rabbah, Sunil Shukla, T.J. Watson Research Center

(via nonneumann)

[itdnhr]

WTF77

Fun fact: almost all commonly used scientific computing toolkits are written in Fortran77. A partial list includes.... * [FFTPACK](http://www.netlib.org/fftpack/) - the (fast) Fourier transform engine used by the NumPy and SciPy projects * [SLICOT](http://www.slicot.org/) - the [control and/or systems library](http://www.slicot.org/shared/libindex.html) used by [MATLAB's Controls toolkit](http://www.mathworks.com/help/control/functionlist.html) and Octave * [LAPACK](http://www.netlib.org/lapack/) - the linear algebra toolkit used by NumPy, Octave, and MATLAB * [ODEPACK](https://computation.llnl.gov/casc/odepack/odepack_home.html) - the ordinary differential equation solver / toolket used by [Moby](http://physsim.sourceforge.net/), [SciPy](http://www.scipy.org/doc/api_docs/SciPy.integrate.odepack.html), and [Octave](http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/octave/Octave-FAQ_2.html) * [BLAS](http://www.netlib.org/blas/) - basic linear algebra library used by scipy * [PROPACK](http://soi.stanford.edu/~rmunk/PROPACK/) - an advanced linear algebra system for executing singular value decomposition on structured matricies. * [ARPACK](http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/) - an advanced linear algebra system for large eigenvalue problems. * [SVDPACK](http://www.netlib.org/svdpack/) - a set of iterative solvers for sparse singular value decompositions. * [DIERCKX](http://www.netlib.org/dierckx/index.html) - the smoothing spline library used by SciPy. * [QUADPACK](http://nines.cs.kuleuven.be/software/QUADPACK/) - library for integration of equations with one variable, with use supported by Octave and SciPy. * [ODRPACK](http://orion.math.iastate.edu/docs/cmlib/odrpack.html) - library for orthogonal distance regression style curve fitting, used by SciPy and NumPy * [MINPACK](http://www.math.utah.edu/software/minpack.html) - least squares error minimization library, used by SciPy

[defdist-blog]

Undetectable Magazines

“Law enforcement officials should have the power to stop high-capacity magazines from proliferating with a Google search.” -Israel

Good fucking luck.

[rememberaaronsw-blog]

Our beloved brother, son, friend, and partner Aaron Swartz hanged himself on Friday in his Brooklyn apartment. We are in shock, and have not yet come to terms with his passing. Aaron’s insatiable curiosity, creativity, and brilliance; his reflexive empathy and capacity for selfless, boundless...

[itdnhr]

The Chymists are a strange Class of Mortals, impelled by an incomprehensible Impulse to take their Pleasure amid Smoke and Vapour, Fume and Flame, Poison and Poverty ? Yet among all these Evils, I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I would change places with the Persian King!

Johann Beccher Physica Subterranea, 1703

[itdnhr]

"A tool addresses human needs by amplifying human capabilities. That is, a tool converts what we can do into what we want to do. A great tool is designed to fit both sides."

Bret Victor, on CEE as cybernetic enhancement

[itdnhr]

If design is no longer the domain of a select few creating products of consumption for “the many”, according to the top-down model of bureaucratic industrialism, what is it? This exhibition argues that rather than the closed object, the maximum expression of design today is the process—the activation of open systems, tools that shape society by enabling self-organisation, platforms of collaboration independent of the capitalist model of competition, and empowering networks of production. Design is on the move: it is migrating from the rigid domain of bureaucracy towards the rhizomatic realm of adhocracy.

[Joseph Grima](http://istanbuldesignbiennial.iksv.org/adhocracy/)

[itdnhr]

Kevin: i think you may have the same type of insanity as chuck moore: http://www.colorforth.com/map.htm me: I'm not sure if that one comes in pill form, but if it does, I'm going to find out what it is and take a lot of it Kevin: comparch project idea: teach the timecube guy verilog and then write an assembler for the resulting CPU ----- > The Map is Not the Territory > > This observation by Alfred Korzybski applies in several ways to GreenArrays' multi-computer chip. It says that a map cannot be complete. That a model cannot capture everything. That reality exceeds our ability to understand.

http://www.colorforth.com/map.htm

[itdnhr]

What binds us all together is a deep, almost obsessive love for the beautiful experience: that moment when an object, space or event makes a powerful connection with the person experiencing it, creating meaning where there was none.

Ziba Design via Annie Zeng

[unfiltered-adventures]

I’ve spent a good chunk of the last two years (and, informally, the last 12 years) thinking about “what is the goal (point) of education?” – “how should we be taught?” – “what’s the best way to learn?”

Today, I’m going to tackle that first point: “What is the goal of education?” (in the...

[unfiltered-adventures]

[itdnhr]

For the last couple of weeks, a group of us have been waking up and exercising at 7:00 AM – usually doing yoga/stretches for 30-40 minutes, and meditating for the rest. Sometimes it’s been simple sun salutations, sometimes balancing exercises, - I’ve even led the group in the “7 minutes in heaven” core-strengthening exercise, and started people in doing burpees to get woken up in the morning ;P. (there’s nothing like doing 12 squat-pushup-jumps, to engage the two largest muscle groups in your body and wake you up).

[icavedandgota]

[itdnhr]

Welcome to America.