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Some of you may be familiar with the ‘Stupid Hackathon<\/a>‘, which I believe was started by Amelia Winger-Bearskin and Sam Lavigne at ITP in New York a few years ago.<\/p>\n (I also know of a San Francisco Stupid Hackathon<\/a>, hosted by Noisebridge<\/a> (of course).[1])<\/p>\n Setting aside the issues of privilege and the General Malaise<\/a> required to make such an event work, I wanted to talk about a similar event happening in Toronto in late May:<\/p>\n http:\/\/stupidhacktoronto.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n The categories (APOLOGIES FOR YELLING STOP THEY WERE ALSO YELLING ON THE SITE STOP):<\/p>\n MARGINALLY IMPROVED FOOD DELIVERY REDUCTIONIST BOLTZMANN MACHINES<\/a> EMOJIANAL INTELLIGENCE QUICKTIME FOR PEGASI MILLENIAL FALCONS MAYBE PUT SOME SENSORS ON IT I GUESS CAN I HAVE MONEY NOW VIRTUAL FEALTY PENTACOPTERS A FUCKING FITNESS TRACKER THE INTERNET OF BEES [1]If you’ve never heard of Noisebridge, check out their website! All of the warnings at the top of this post probably apply. <\/p>\n [2]S suggests ‘Sandwich Rental’ for the ultimate experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WARNING: SOME OF THE LINKS BELOW MAY LEAD TO NSFW OR TRIGGERING THINGS STOP YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED STOP Some of you may be familiar with the ‘Stupid Hackathon‘, which I believe was started by Amelia Winger-Bearskin and Sam Lavigne at ITP in New York a few years ago. (I also know of a San … Continue reading Stupid Hackathon Toronto Ideas<\/span>
\n – Is this the purchasing of food on margin? Speculating on food ‘Futures’? Or ‘Presents’?
\n – Is this finally the incarnation of AirHamAndCheese.com, the sharing economy startup[2] for fractional sandwich ownership? Only time will tell.
\n – Is this anything like ‘The Food Lift<\/a>‘?<\/p>\n
\n – How many neurons are required for full reductionism?
\n – What happens when you only have one neuron? Does it talk to itself?
\n – If it can talk to itself in multiple ways, is that still turing-complete?
\n – Do you get one of these by taking the PCA of your Restricted Boltzmann Machine<\/a> and dropping the 90% least used neurons?<\/p>\n
\n – I think I know what they mean here, and I’m not talking about this topic here.<\/p>\n
\n – Is this about a phase-cloaking<\/a> video display?
\n – Perhaps hacking a 6502<\/a>-based console<\/a> to run video?
\n – Perhaps a squadron flying horses in a hurry?
\n – Thinking about it, what would you need in video for a flying horse? Some type of HUD? Probably something very light.<\/p>\n
\n – I was looking at our new condo building, and what looked like a Red-tailed Hawk<\/a> was perched on top. I hope we can become friends. They can live to 25 years old in the wild, so it might have been a millenial.
\n – How would you feed a stooping<\/a> bird? Would you put food out on a flexible holder a few feet out halfway up a very tall building? Gotta practice that stoop somehow…<\/p>\n
\n – See ‘The Internet of Thins<\/a>‘<\/p>\n
\n – Cue ‘Second Life’ references.
\n – You could talk about player organizations within MMORPGs, but what could you build to actually (not) help them?
\n – This topic is a pyramid scheme.<\/p>\n
\n – For starfish, of course.
\n – Or this guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n – I feel like this would require a considerable amount of calibration for each user
\n – Alternatively, this could be a hide-and-seek game<\/p>\n
\n – See my post about ‘Beenary’ logic<\/a> for some ideas on this.<\/p>\n