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There’s a way to get around computers cheating with quantum data.
Interactive proofs are when humans or some theoretical questioner ask a computer questions, and they can’t trust the computer to really understand what they’re getting at. Asking multiple computers different questions makes this style of proofing more efficient. But because quantum physics is weird,
Do we have a subconscious understanding of abstraction?
Does it really matter which way you hang a Kandinsky? According to a study by George Mather at the University of Sussex, the answer is yes: Experiment 1 asked whether naïve observers can appreciate the correct orientation (as defined by the artist) of 40 modern artworks, some of which are entirely a
Ludocity can help plan your next party
Murder in the Dark, Mafia, Hide-and-Seek: these free-to-play games have long been part of the neglected history of street games. Ludocity is a site dedicated to real-world street and social games and houses a list of game rules and events. Some of the games on Ludocity overlap with theatre, painting
Japanese company reveals new human-piloted, armed mech-then laughs at itself.
Perhaps foregoing the necessity of getting a native English speaker to translate the copy selling your cartoonish, human-scale mech toy, Suidobashi Heavy Industry has revealed to the world their diesel-powered, piloted robot via a public showing at Japan’s 2012 Wonder Festival and several self-parod
Babycastles and Katamari creator to rebuild classic games inside gallery.
As part of the upcoming Babycastles Summit, Keita Takahashi—the endearingly sardonic director of the Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy—has teamed up with the avant-slacker game producers/party throwers Babycastles to carry out Takahashi’s real-world dreams of classic videogames, i.e. Dunk Hunt and P
Psychologists are using LEGO to help people play
It’s fun to play with LEGO, building things and then imagining how they fit into a world. The versitility of LEGO make them great tools for psychologists, who use them to asses spatial reasoning, as play therapy for autistic children, and to help salarymen and women think creatively. David Whitebre
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