#AUTOMATA X #HITOMEZASHI / work in progress / A #rug of mixed patterns, fed from each other
#AUTOMATA X #HITOMEZASHI / work in progress / A #rug of mixed patterns, fed from each other
Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata — https://google-research.github.io/self-organising-systems/difflogic-ca/?hn
#HackerNews #Differentiable #Logic #Cellular #Automata #research #AI #machinelearning #selforganizing-systems
Turn the handle on this simple #STEAMjunk project and make your heart beat! A fun project to download and make in time for Valentine’s day!
www.robives.com/project/heartbeat #valentinecrafts #maker #automata
Crank the handle on the Counting Sheep project... you'll be asleep by the time the counter reaches 10!
https://buff.ly/4j71vJA
This is a project from 2007 that I'm looking at with a view to a redesign
#automata #maker #paperengineering
Spinner #EssentialMechanism to download, print out and make. Pump the paper bellows and the air drives the turbine disk fast!
Use this essential mechanism to bring your own designs to life. You could add a pirouetting dancer to the disk, or a dog chasing a cat, or a spaceship circling a planet - what will you create!? #maker #automata
https://buff.ly/40cz1Xj
Bead and wire running man! Crank the wire handle and make the paper character run! Find out more at https://buff.ly/3Vl3Aaz
#automata #STEAMjunk #maker
Winter's Clock in Stockport, England
Three mechanical figures—a soldier, a sailor, and Father Time—announce the time on this local landmark.#automata #astoundingtimepieces #mechanicalinstruments #time #clocks #section-Atlas
Winter's Clock
Horloge Charvet in Lyon, France
After decades of damage, this feat of timekeeping and automaton art has been given a new lease on life.#astoundingtimepieces #automata #horology #clocks #time #section-Atlas
Horloge Charvet
"Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech."
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/early-androids-and-artificial-speech/
Amazing automata fascinate Cornwall museum visitors
A collection of automata have been drawing in visitors to the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro.
Those behind the Marvellous Mechanical Museum exhibition said it was a blend of art and science, and full of fun.
The automata, plural of automaton - a small, mechanical figure that can move automatically - are helping those who visit learn about mechanics, engineering and construction as well as art.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-68768588 #automata #museums #BBC
Still looking for a second reviewer for @pyOpenSci
Package: automata
review: https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-submission/issues/152
repo: https://github.com/caleb531/automata
description: A Python library for simulating finite automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines.
Open reviews are a great way to learn by teaching, see what other people are up to, and make software development a valued and creditable part of academic work. Anyone with familiarity with Python is welcome as a reviewer, experience in the topic domain is a bonus but not required. DM me or reply on the above issue, it's fun, i promise! :)
edit: reviewer found! thank you @iris <3
I'm looking for reviewers for two packages at the moment:
Automata (@pyOpenSci )
Review: https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-submission/issues/152
Repo: https://github.com/caleb531/automata
A #Python library for simulating finite #automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines.
Kirstine.jl
( @joss )
Review: https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/6193
Repo: https://sr.ht/~lsandig/Kirstine.jl
A #Julia package for Bayesian optimal experimental design with nonlinear regression models.
You'll be working with another reviewer to read and run the code, make sure it fills a basic checklist which usually only takes a few hours, and beyond that whatever youd like to focus on. Both of these are collaborative review processes where the goal is to help these packages be usable, well documented, and maintainable for the overall health of free scientific software.
Its fun, I promise! Happy to answer questions and boosts welcome.
Edit: feel free to volunteer as a reply here, DM me, or commenting on those issues! Anyone is welcome! Some experience with the language required, but other than that I can coach you through the rest.
Putting a call out for @pyOpenSci reviewers :)
Package: automata
- "A Python library for simulating finite automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines."
https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-submission/issues/152
Looks like a good bit of fun (cellular automata are a recurring love of mine) - we would love to give people who haven't had a chance to review software a go here, but previous reviewers welcome too. You'll be taking on the role of a prospective user and colleague advising and trying to help make a package work as well as it can, reaching some minimum standard via checklist, raising issues and making suggestions as you read and run it.
More on the review process: https://www.pyopensci.org/software-peer-review/how-to/reviewer-guide.html
Reply here or DM me, (though my notifications are getting mauled rn so probably DM)
We will program some bird #automata soon, glad I was able to catch some of the pigeons flying in #murmurations like this on such a lovely morning. Math is everywhere!
The one fun aspect of module prep today was working up some eccentric stock images derived from "The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria" (Woodcroft, 1851), which is notable chiefly for its splendid diagrams of the ancient inventor's craft.
Bridging Graph Position Encodings for Transformers with Weighted Graph-Walking Automata
Patrick Soga, David Chiang
'Brazen Heads' were mythical(?) #medieval #automata – bronze heads that could speak prophecy, tho some could only answer 'yes' or 'no'. Image 1: prop brazen head for TV series Da Vinci's Demons, season 2 episode 8.
13th Cent. monk Roger Bacon was rumored to own a brazen head, seen here in a 1630 engraving for the title page of a play about Bacon published in London. The head on the wall speaks 'Time is. Time was. Time is past.'