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Archive for August, 2005

Bob Moog 1934-2005

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Dancing Links

Saturday, August 13th, 2005

Like seemingly everyone in LA, I have recently been bitten by the Sudoku bug, a craze which swept England last spring. The Los Angeles Times started publishing these puzzles a few weeks ago. Like many geeks, this addiction not only involves solving them with a pencil, but solving and generating them with a computer. I […]

Information Theory and Art

Monday, August 1st, 2005

When we say things like: “That picture is too noisy” “The room is too cluttered” “This song is boring” “That script has good pacing” “Put some reverb on that mic” We are unintentionally invoking the spirit of Claude Shannon, who first described Information Theory in the late 1940s, at the dawn of the information age. […]