We live our lives according to a moral code. The time has come to code our morals. — Decentralization was (and still is) the hope of many of us early builders of the first generation of online weirdos, the first children to grow up with the internet and the last generation to remember life before it existed. In those early days, we saw the internet as a real…

It’s all fun & games ‘till someone gets rich! Is an elite cadre of children and seniors responsible for The Great Anomaly? Reporter: Tere Guttierez 11/20/2023 9:10 AM | Updated 11/22/2023 4:28 PM The Great Anomaly has puzzled quants and statisticians since it was discovered last spring. By all conventional…

Don’t colonize our future — In data science, we talk about models suffering from either “overfitting” or “underfitting.” Overfitting is when a model exhibits a low degree of bias, but a high degree of variance. In other words, it accepts a lot of differences within the data, but it doesn’t have very much predictive power…

Our society produces data at an astounding rate. By some estimates, as many as 2.5 million terabytes of new information appear on servers around the world every day. That’s as much data as could fit on a billion iPhones, a quantity of zeros and ones so large you need eighteen…

Champion City Part 10 — Virtual Reality, an immersive technology that allows audiences to interact with imaginary worlds, has been creating a wave of excitement in the last few years. VR has been around since the 80's, but advances in computational power and motion tracking techniques have made it possible to produce sophisticated virtual experiences…

In mid-June the IDEA hosted three artists in our residents’ nest above the New Rochelle train station: Matthew Gantt, Rena Anakwe and Joelle Fleurantin. On his website, Matthew Gantt describes himself as a “New Music Human.” He’s is a composer and media artist who approaches whose practice runs the gamut…

Every month, 55 million people play Minecraft, often hosting customized versions of collaborative worlds on their own home computers. The rules, formats, stories, and “mods” that these communities create are invite-only, and if you are lucky enough to receive an invitation, you will likely be talking, chatting, trolling with them…

Tommy Payne and David Huerta hosted Creative Conversations at the IDEALab, (+ 3 quotes from Nietzsche): “I was the first to discover the truth by being the first to experience lies as lies — smelling them out. — My genius is in my nostrils.” — Nietzsche, Ecce Homo Apple UX…