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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-09-11
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“A Place to Bury Strangers are a power trio comprised of Oliver Ackermann (guitar/vocals), Jono MOFO (bass) and Jay Space (drums). The band play a heavy, atmospheric wall of sound-influenced blend of psychedelic rock, shoegaze and space rock.”
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Few NYC bands can announce a show on a Sunday and be confident that it will be filled to capacity come Friday. A Place To Bury Strangers is one of them. The three piece will be releasing their sophomore record titled “Exploding Head” on October 6th under Mute Records. We had the chance to listen to an advance copy and it makes our hearts beat with a maddening rush of adrenaline.
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“There are bands that definitely utilize guitar effects to amazing ways, like A Place to Bury Strangers. They push the boundaries of sound and they make their own pedals. “
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video interview
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Here’s a little remix for A Place To Bury Strangers’ “In Your Heart”, the first single taken from their new album Exploding Head.
A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-09-08
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“Like early New Order getting into a bar brawl with The Jesus And Mary Chain, this is all seething surly emotions, inspired by girls and the way that sometimes they are not very nice to you. We’d tell them to have a nice cup of tea and a sit down, but they’re just too sexy when they’re angry.”
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“There a bunch of these moments across the 10 tracks: For this and other reasons the album really needs to be heard in its entirety. “
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“”I love the interplay and contrasts between something that’s pretty and something that’s scary,” explains Ackerman. “Taking listeners to different places-even in one song – is so important, whether it makes them cry or pissed off. If you listen closely, some of the riffs on this record are actually like Ramones songs or ’60s bubblegum pop.”
CPSC 448; September 8, 2009
Current Assignment
The assignment is to create a data-driven Web site that has as its database a collection of at least 60 jokes/sayings/images/videos/whatevers. A visitor to the site  can see one of the items selected at random. A visitor can add an item, delete an item, or display all the items.
Whose shall we look at today?
What is Web 2.0?
![The mind map pictured above (constructed by Markus Angermeier [1] on November 11 2005) sums up some of the themes of Web 2.0, with example-sites and services attached.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Web_2.0_Map.svg)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Web_2.0_Map.svg
Web 2.0 Design Patterns
In his book, A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander prescribes a format for the concise description of the solution to architectural problems. He writes: “Each pattern describes a problem that occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.”
- The Long Tail
Small sites make up the bulk of the internet’s content; narrow niches make up the bulk of internet’s the possible applications. Therefore: Leverage customer-self service and algorithmic data management to reach out to the entire web, to the edges and not just the center, to the long tail and not just the head. - Data is the Next Intel Inside
Applications are increasingly data-driven. Therefore: For competitive advantage, seek to own a unique, hard-to-recreate source of data. - Users Add Value
The key to competitive advantage in internet applications is the extent to which users add their own data to that which you provide. Therefore: Don’t restrict your “architecture of participation” to software development. Involve your users both implicitly and explicitly in adding value to your application. - Network Effects by Default
Only a small percentage of users will go to the trouble of adding value to your application. Therefore: Set inclusive defaults for aggregating user data as a side-effect of their use of the application. - Some Rights Reserved. Intellectual property protection limits re-use and prevents experimentation. Therefore: When benefits come from collective adoption, not private restriction, make sure that barriers to adoption are low. Follow existing standards, and use licenses with as few restrictions as possible. Design for “hackability” and “remixability.”
- The Perpetual Beta
When devices and programs are connected to the internet, applications are no longer software artifacts, they are ongoing services. Therefore: Don’t package up new features into monolithic releases, but instead add them on a regular basis as part of the normal user experience. Engage your users as real-time testers, and instrument the service so that you know how people use the new features. - Cooperate, Don’t Control
Web 2.0 applications are built of a network of cooperating data services. Therefore: Offer web services interfaces and content syndication, and re-use the data services of others. Support lightweight programming models that allow for loosely-coupled systems. - Software Above the Level of a Single Device
The PC is no longer the only access device for internet applications, and applications that are limited to a single device are less valuable than those that are connected. Therefore: Design your application from the get-go to integrate services across handheld devices, PCs, and internet servers.
Google analytics
- Video featuring Google’s Analytics Evangelist, Avinash Kaushik
- Avinash on Analytics
- Google Analytics
- Kaushik’s Blog Occam’s Razor
Future of the Web
Tagged cpsc448, Teaching, web 2.0, web designA Place to Bury Strangers Links for 08-27-2009
- A place to b on Flickr – Photo Sharing! (tags: aptbs france)
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Interview at siren fest
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“Don’t let the brutal wordplay fool you though, this is an incredibly accessible album…although you may have to have a palette which is already used to early Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, and Ride albums to appreciate it. I seriously haven’t stopped listening to the album since it hit my mailbox. “
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“They are without a doubt the loudest, in a good way, band on the face of the earth.”
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“I’m quite fond of this song even though it made me half deaf as I listened to through my earbuds. The staccato drum fills, the affected deadpan vocal and the early Ride guitar riffs do it to me every time. Isn’t it about time a band revived the shoegaze movement?”
A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-09-06
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“A Place to Bury Strangers managed to create one of the most, if not, the most epic performance seen on such a small stage over the weekend.”
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“Band that doesn’t disappoint even when performing in a tent: A Place To Bury StrangersThe best contemporary shoegaze band we have proved that they can deliver their multi-layered, mind-blowing sound even at a festival environment, and I’m now their eternal fan.”
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“Perfect in every way then”
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Listening to New York’s A Place To Bury Strangers is a bit like sniffing at a fine wine: “Mmm, a bit of My Bloody Valentine”; “Yes, definitely some Jesus and Mary Chain there”; “Ahh, the faint whiff of Helmet”; “Mogwai, maybe?”
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APTBS have been critically revered in their short life, for good reason
Math and Proofs
Teaching CPSC 326, Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science always brings the challenge of getting people who deal with making things work, think about proof techniques.
This semester I started that all out with a presentation “Mathematics and Proofs” The presentation includes mostly all CC materials, except for some Jimi Hendrix music and an Abbott and Costello skit on why 13 X 7 = 28. I hope it had some positive effect on my students. We’ll see how that works when I ask them to prove somethings using Math Induction.
Here are a few links that I’ve found useful in this context.
- Mathematical Induction
- About Proofs
“Let’s look at a very famous mathematical problem: are there numbers that are not fractions of integers? Pythagoras had visited Egypt, and returned with a lot of mathematics, and a firm belief that all numbers were rational, i.e., fractions of integers. His precise argument is unknown (nothing he wrote survives: he led a religious group dedicated to an identification of arithmetic and religion), but it was philosophical if not religious, and may have gone something like this: Since all things arise out of the first thing, all whole numbers arise out of repeatedly adding one. From these whole numbers, we obtain fractions that represent ratios of arbitrary refinement. Thus for any real number, we must be able to find a ratio of whole numbers for it.” - Proofs – some good advice on understanding definitions, theorems, and proofs
Ted Talks – Magic, Math, Social Media inks for 2009-08-29
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In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and guesses a few birthdays. How does he do it? He’ll tell you.
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Like your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, “Pick a card, any card.” But what he does with those cards is pure magic — flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? magic.
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In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.
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“While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.”
Finite State Machines & Almanac of Higher Education links for 2009-08-27
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intro to dfa. includes diagram of viewing a dfa as a machine that reads a tape.
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“A deterministic finite automaton (or DFA) is a finite-state deterministic automaton.”
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“The Almanac, published annually, gathers an assortment of key data about the most important trends in higher education. Our new version is an attempt to better organize and provide more context for that information.”
Political Cartoons. President Obama Speaking to Schools
President Obama will be making a brief speech/presentation to school children on Tuesday, Sept 8, 2009 at Noon. Â You would think that was a benign and laudatory act. WE do live in times where the rude, crude, and threatened have a strong voice. Â In Stafford County where I live, the School Board voted to show it at a later date because of alleged logistic problems. Other school systems in this area of Virginia are allowing students to opt-out from hearing the President of the United States in school. Looney-tunes!! Here are some political cartons from the online version of the WashingtonPost hat address the event.
Political Cartoon by Nick Anderson
Political Cartoon by carlson
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