One of the great myths in the technosphere is that musicians make good programmers because music is like math. I disagree. Music is not enough like math for any relevant or significant skill transfer.

Installation view of Gabriel de la Mora’s ‘Sound Inscriptions on Fabric’ at the Drawing Center (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) There are no drawings on the walls for the Drawing Center’s ...

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Abstract wallpapers are a great choice for your iPhone. They can be visually appealing and give your iPhone home screen a fresh and modern look. The best thing about abstract wallpapers is their ...

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A member of the now-extinct hominid species Homo erectus engraved a geometric design on a sea shell nearly half a million years ago, long before the earliest evidence of comparable etchings made by ...

Today we’re obsessed with data. Experts in every industry are finding ingenious ways to measure and depict millions of data points every day. But data is virtually worthless unless someone can look at ...

Ken Van Haren and Chris Stanley were data scientists at Google and Square, respectively, who found themselves frustrated by how much time they were spending wrangling infrastructure versus doing ...