Silencing (A Visual Effect)

A couple of guys up at Harvard (same guys that made the demo vids) published a paper in Current Biology about this optical illusion they call 'silencing'.

Contrast.  
These demos were created by Jordan Suchow (suchow@fas.harvard.edu) and George Alvarez (http://visionlab.harvard.edu/Members/George/Welcome.html)

Well, with some creative searching it's been found and sanitized. Robots can't look for everything yet. Get it here.

Evidence With The Beatles (2010)

Time to head to the lab. I really don't have time to post up anything at the moment, so for now I'll just recommend you look for Evidence With The Beatles, featuring production from Twiz The Beat Pro. Check back later for the link.

And here it is: DOWNLOAD

The Written Word

A picture is worth 1,000 words. If I write 1,000 words it's all art, but it's OK if you call only part of it art and compartmentalize it from other kinds of art.

So, for any of you still here, let's get ready to rumble.

Us white people are fucking crazy. Seriously, check this out:


I'm also still on Mighty High Coup - To The Moon. Once again, I recommend purchasing it here at amazon. Track 7, Hoody N' Tims, is one I hadn't listened to much initially, but it turns out to be a chill little track. Anyways, I wrote the following at various points in the day:
Chattin' to the Laureates in the corner,
Noble stories at the edge of the border
of the era, new technology is in my mind
all the time, it's fly, when I see the atoms
connectin' to form the hive, also the skies,
'N we try, to ascend this, funny, just pretend this
vibrations got large after Einstein and Bohrs
Duality, particle and wave, now go and get yours
Increase your energy, get down, BASS takes it
Without grumble stumblin' south Sudan animate
primal psyche psycho Islam Khartoum control gate
Hold up... the fuck?
Bluck bluck, with a smile, coz I ain't never held a gun
Yeah, yeah, y'all ain't stunned, grunt
while I behave in a way that blunts the choices
you will make, Bun. Careful, son,
this mind control business can tear 'em asund.
"sample: For every action there is a reaction"
Recast in Iran contra, indicate, fate
is just a state of mind, you'll find
Stick and move, is just act first, react never.
So blast first, jackasses think they clever,
Ideals from Plato are mere sticks that I move
Your reality is my magic trick. Yeah? Smooth.
I just want another dirty rats needle groove.
Clone myself, outre spangled banner strangle
*rrrr*, *haha*, *-ooovve* *lala*
So while I was writing this I would be listening to A-Bomb and Ricky Raw and Cashmere The Professional, so it might seem a little incompatible, but hey it can be spit 50 different ways, I just need one.

Saturday Night Droppers

Welcome back, I've taken a few days off being as I've been ill lately, trying to avoid paralysis. Below we have a remix for Wiz Khalifa's "Black & Yellow", which

I snabbed this from 2DopeBoyz, and wouldn't you know it, they were nice enough to provide a download for the song (good luck finding it on their site). Go here for the mp3.
Hit "play" here for a couple MF Grimm tracks you might wish you had from "The Hunt For The Gingerbread Man"

We've also got a couple reminders for all those at home here in the valley.

Tonight, at the Woodshed, we have Dave & The Death Machine, featuring Whitney Blayne.	In The Venue, $5 presale, $10 door; This is the CD release party for Mixmaster Dapper whose "While You Were DJing" drops next Tuesday. Oh yes, get ready for the never to be released mix.

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If you can believe it.

Serum - New Music - More Music Videos

And, oh, I'm being told I need to stop now. Peace.

Baby Bull

Aye, aye, Cap'n Gloval!

Sorry to knock Self-Scientific down a spot, but I just heard this new producer, Baby Bull. Not every track on here is perfect, but some of these belie a real love of production. You'll hear Detroit house & soul over broken beats, some boom bap sound mixed with spooky low-end electronica, and more. Damn, I wish I had this sound, haha.

Pokemon Hot Damn by BabyBull
Fishy Seals by BabyBull
Thriller (Baby Bull Rmx)

Today Only

These guys are going to be killing the MPC even harder one day.

No time today, like the White Rabbit, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late. Click through the image to get an untracked version of Self-Scientific's Changes.

If you haven't heard Chace Infinite and DJ Khalil team up before, this album will get you noddin' along before they bust out the best for last. Apologies for encoding errors if you hear them. Pants.

Sports Betting Stats, Mighty High Coup, Self-Scientific, Burnell Washburn

(skip nerd shit)

Skellam P.D.F. for West Bromwich Albion & Fulham F.C.

All data from WorldFootball.net

Alright, so above is a Skellam distribution. It's like a Gaussian distribution, except instead of being the probability for a single random variable X, it's the probability of the difference of two Poisson variables, X-Y.

Poisson variables are ones that occur at random intervals, but with an overall time average, like nuclear radiation. This average is the mean of the distribution and completely determines the probability distribution.

So say you had some radioactive materials, and they're hooked up to a balance such that if the second material becomes 5 grams lighter than the first material a button will be pressed that ignites a nuclear bomb fueled by both materials. Damn. Stakes are high. Do you have anything to worry about?

Skellam distribution.

Put in the half-lives (means) for the materials and check out the probability for A-B > 5. If I had more time and skill I'd put a widget up here specifically so you could check these kinds of every day things. As it stands, we'll just use this for sports betting and odds-making.

In this case the random event is a point being scored. The 'materials' are the opposing teams, the 'half-lives' are the average goals per unit each team scores, and the 'nuclear explosion' is your bank account blowing up.
(Well, not really, since the bookmakers use this method and extensions of it, and then go ahead and artificially set the odds so they add up to over 100% chance for either team winning, and arbitrage the situation to ensure they profit no matter the outcome, much like a hedge fund but arbitrage-ier.)

Hit me up if you're in school now and can get *this* article. I don't want to have to park at or bus to the University.
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Now that there above tired me the fuck out. So I'll just leave you with another soulful funk mix, this time by the great Mogpaws over at Invisible Friends. Hit play below, or go directly to their site.

Medium Beneath Media. Bang Around.
Mogpaws Fade Away.	Burnell Washburn This is the first three songs from The White Dove EP (2010). You can find it in Utah, or hit up Burnell at his |___|Space.
Chace Infinite, DJ Khalil, egawd.	Mighty High Coup Face The Music (Haha!) From "To The Moon", which you can pre-order at their site. Ricky Raw, A-Bomb, Mr. SOS

_{P.S. Hit me up if you would appreciate having the new Stones Throw cast w/o iTunes. We can discuss how nice it would be to have.}