blog.bookmach.com » Programming http://blog.bookmach.com life is a series of tubes Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:31:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Sounds of Sorting http://blog.bookmach.com/2010/08/sounds-of-sorting/ http://blog.bookmach.com/2010/08/sounds-of-sorting/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:53:49 +0000 Brian Fox Dougherty http://blog.bookmach.com/?p=1082

Different sorting algorithms are translated as sound data.

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Systems are not neutral. They have natural biases. We tame the cascading choices we gain from accelerating technology by introducing small nudges — by deliberating embedding our own biases (also called a default) into the system here and there. We wield biases within inevitable technologies to aim them towards our common goals — increasing diversity, complexity, specialization, sentience, and beauty.

read it all

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ZOMBIE, according to its author David Morgan-Mar, stands for Zombie-Oriented Machine-Being Interface Engine and was designed for necromancers, particularly evil ones.

Programs are run in a multithreaded environment where every kind of entity (zombie, vampire, ghost, demon or djinn) acts in a slightly different way. A program is a list of entity declarations stating the action that each entity must perform.

Some of the more notable entries:

ZOMBIE
Spaghetti
Whitespace
DateFuck
Taxi

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Via Waxy

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(Transcript here)

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