Author: Sean Carney
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Norbert Wiener on Information and Modern Life
Information is a name for the content of what is exchanged with the outer world as we adjust to it, and make our adjustment felt upon it. The process of receiving and of using information is the process of our adjusting to the contingencies of the outer environment, and of our living effectively within that…
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Norbert Wiener on Information and Entropy
The commands through which we exercise our control over our environment are a kind of information which we impart to it. Like any form of information, these commands are subject to disorganization in transit. They generally come through in less coherent fashion and certainly not more coherently than they were sent. In control and communication…
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Norbert Wiener on The Human Use of Human Beings
It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine are destined…
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Lorenz Attractors
Status: Built The lorenz attractors are a dual version of Sloth Chaos by Nonlinear Circuits. Each board has two chaotic low frequency oscillators each with two outputs. The outputs are loosely related, they tend to go high or low together, but to different extents.
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Quantizer
Status: Built My quantizer is based on an Arduino Nano, which reads four input voltages and quantizes them into four outputs based on 12 root pitches and 12 different musical modes.
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Sample and Hold, Noise, and Slew Limiter
Status: Built My sample and hold and slew limiter is based on Moritz Kleins design for an analog sample and hold circuit, however I made a couple of tweaks to the design.
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Joystick Controller
Status: Unbuilt Looking at joysticks online, I thought it would be fun to use a joystick to create a 2 axis controller. The two axes could be used to either pan between +5V and -5V as a CV source, or pan between two inputs allowing it to be used as an audio mixer. Two switches, one…
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Thoughts on AI Agents
There’s talk of having AI agents which are trained on one’s own work to assist with tasks. The interesting question is who would have ownership and control of these models, the worker or the employer. Imagine a world where your current and former employers maintain models of you in perpetuity after you leave positions, and…