Podcasts, Papers, Books and Capers

[jrbl]

So I like to share the things I've been using to feed my head, because I think that it helps people see where my head is at, which is maybe more useful, as far as keeping up with who I am, than knowing what's going on. At least, it's an important piece of the puzzle.

Music

• "Security", by Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - looks like paulv was right. This is a neat album.

Podcasts - including fiction

• The Long Now Foundation: Seminars About Long Term Thinking: The Depopulation Problem, Phillip Longman - This is the one that we were talking about, kellix and anami. Go check this shiznit out. If anyone else listens to these, do you have trouble with the mp3s not playing right sometimes?
• BBC Radio 4: In Our Time: Karl Popper
• In Our Time: Microbiology
• IT Conversations, 2005/09/17: Accelerating Change 2005: Prospects for the Future of AI Panel Discussion
• Small World: Interview with Steve Eley
• The Last Wave, by Kay Kenyon - I found this strangely touching.
• Blink. Don't Blink., by Ramona Loise Wheeler
• Just Do It, by Heather Lindsley
• Job Qualifications, by Kevin J. Anderson
• TAL #188: Kid Logic
• TAL #245: Allure of the Mean Friend
• Quirks and Quarks: Feb 17, 2007
• NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me: Feb 24, 2007
• Wait Wait Don't Tell Me: 3 Mar 2007

Academic Papers

• Toward the Evolution of Dynamical Neural Networks for Minimally Cognitive Behavior, Randall Beer (re-read)

TV on DVD

• Stargate: SG-1 Seasons 4, 5

Books: Nothing to see here, move along...

• Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation, Hopcraft et al., Chapter 7 (Review), 8.1-8.4
• Neural Nets Notes, by Kevin Gurney, Ch.s 5, 6
• Tea Companion, Jane Petigrew, Remaining 20% (it's finished)