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Use this page as an informal forum to share your opinion and discuss anything at CSSS'13.

Students are encouraged to share their observations, insights, and opinions about daily lecture content as well as extracurricular activities.

Post your own links to notes, interesting articles, and anything else you think might contribute to the program.

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The origins of Robby the Robot: the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet. For you Shakespeare fans, it's a retelling of The Tempest. --Manish

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For those of you interested in modeling cities, here [[1]] is a nice article in the Economist from today (June 6th)- Swati

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Bad Hessian, a computational sociology blog.

I think I may have mentioned it to several people, but Google Earth Engine is basically the last 20 years of Landsat imagery on a Google Earth / Google Maps interface. It very compellingly demonstrates the explosive growth over the past 20 years. http://earthengine.google.org/#intro -- JP

Click on Las Vegas or Dubai or something like that to go to the applet

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As requested, here is "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream." A possible "worst case" unfriendly AI scenario (far worse than Skynet). Warning: You might find it disturbing. I added a bit of color, and included the punchcode images from the original work: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream -- Nix

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Since Dr. Hubler is illustrating video feedback, you might like to see this video that Jim Crutchfield made in 1984 on the nonlinear dynamics of video feedback: video -- Nix

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For anyone who was wondering: the yodelling pickle

• Yodeling Pickle had something to say about free will. Unfortunately, no-one takes her seriously due to the language barrier. :( I wonder if someone has tried tossing her into an FMRI... -- Nix

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Like the rule 110 elementary cellular automaton, Conway's Game of Life is Turing complete. This means you can 'build a computer' in the 'universe' that is Conway's Game of Life that can compute 'anything.' This person built a computer that implements Conway's Game of life... *in* Conway's Game of Life: Life in Life -- Nix

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Here is the trailer for the movie that came out in 2012 about when a group of four men prove that P=NP. [[2]]