Music By Natural Selection 164

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 21, 2009 @03:57PM from the survival-of-the-grooviest dept.

maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."

Comment Re:What google did wrong... (Score 1) 152

by rawdirt on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @04:52PM (#29585387) Attached to: Android Modder Tries To Outmaneuver Google

also in pause mode for android and especially google apps, due to this maneuver. pain in the butt google, imho.
I would have bought the g2, after finding cyanogen. If I buy the apps, who cares whether I get it from them or from a
redistributor? why not just check if I am licensed?

just wasting a good modder's time. one way to catch up.

Comment Re:A few details (Score 1) 336

by rawdirt on Friday September 25, 2009 @01:35PM (#29541537) Attached to: Google Serves a Cease and Desist On Android Modder

you forgot androidandme.com is slashdotte ;)

Comment techno burst (Score 0, Offtopic) 381

by rawdirt on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @05:39PM (#28018079) Attached to: Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers

really a terrible dilemma...

now try searching for "rfid cyanide patent"

techno will free itself from petty laws

Comment "SOMA" brave new world - join the tranqforce (Score 1) 105

by rawdirt on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @08:28PM (#26539379) Attached to: Edible "Intelligent Pills"

from wikipedia...

"All members of society are conditioned in childhood to hold the values that the World State idealizes. Constant consumption is the bedrock of stability for the World State. Everyone is encouraged to consume the ubiquitous drug, soma. Soma is a hallucinogen that takes users on enjoyable, hangover-free "vacations"."

Journal Journal: Water-activated batteries (NoPoPo)

Journal by stefanlasiewski on Sunday October 14, 2007 @12:09PM

The Japanese manufacturer Aqua Power Systems Japan is producing Water-activated battery in the AA and AAA sizes, with larger sizes and capacities on the way. As far as I can tell, this is the only commercial offering of these batteries in the AA and AAA form factors.

Submission + - Chinese internet censorship machine revealed

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Thursday October 11, 2007 @05:26PM

Stony Stevenson writes: The Chinese government has instituted an elaborate system for Internet censorship that employs tens of thousands of censors and police responsible for maintaining control over the flow of information, a report released by international free press advocates showed. Entitled "China: Journey To The Heart Of Internet Censorship," the report issued by Reporters Without Borders outlines the inner workings of a bureaucracy that effectively clamps down on dissent, quashes articles the communist government deems unsuitable for publication, and uses online companies to distribute its own propaganda.

The report, much of which is based on information provided by an unidentified Chinese technician who works for the government's Internet sector, reveals that to control the information flow over such a vast network, three leading government agencies have evolved over the last several years: the Internet Propaganda Administrative Bureau, the Bureau of Information and Public Opinion, and the Internet Bureau, the report said. In Beijing, where most of China's leading commercial Web sites are based, a powerful local agency has been established called the Beijing Internet Information Administrative Bureau.

In general, the Internet Propaganda Administrative Bureau issues licenses to commercial Web sites, which entitles them to provide news stories and reproduce reports disseminated by official media. The licenses, however, do not allow for independent news gathering and publishing.

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