Notes

This is my stack of notes — tools.
All amendable; a work in progress.

• Teenage Engineering OP-Z encoders popping out? Here is how TE repair fixes them.

  The OP-Z, particularly its encoders – the round coloured disc knobs – do suffer from a widely known problem : They start to pop out / up or even fall out after a while. I've read many solutions to the problem. However I went to SCS Servicecenter Siedler in Neuss, NRW ( Teenage Engineering's certified repair shop for the world , except USA and Canada) directly to get answers first hand. They explained that TE were a bit hesitant to add enough glue to the encoders to hold them in their ball bearing enclosure and the magnet in the knobs (which in […]

• Was linear just the worse algorithm?

  The notion that with algorithms came the bubble, thus opposite to linear media no confrontation with unpleasent content. But was linear media not just the worse algorithm. It had outlets catered to various interests. If the critique aims at AI lowering understanding for different views, then what does this tell us about society itself, if this notion is indeed false?

• Das Grundrauschen fehlt

  Der Austausch via Telemedium steht in der erstrangigen Kommunikation – also: dem direkten Gespräch; der Präsentation; dem Frontalunterricht etc. – dem direkten Austausch im Angesicht zueinander (je nach Medium) vergleichsweise wenig nach. In der zweitrangigen Kommunikation, nämlich dem indirekten Austausch – das ist: das überhöhrte Gespräch; das die Runde machende Gerücht; die per Hörensagen weitergegebene Information etc. – jedoch, findet im Telemedium (wenn überhaupt) in kanalisierter, exklusiverer, kontrollierbarer Form statt. Darin liegt – […]

• When one can't replace the pine in the AC of Villa Tugendhat anymore

  The moment a rudimentary material such as the pine wood in the air conditioning system of Villa Tugendhat – thinking of which one would rather consider the craft to process the wood to be endangered of obsolescence – is close to extinctions, that is the next to last point in time (before the material is just a memory), when change in the old world becomes evident; hence epochal transitions are fluent.

• Climate Bunker

  Here I want to think about a (for now) fictional structure that isolates against an uninhabitable world. Questions What is it like in the climate bunker? How could a structure like this look like? How could it function? Who was granted access? What is the economy like? What is the intention of the bunker? If there is an elite, what is their intention? Music for Climate Bunkers A piece or set thereof that serves "well-being" in a climate bunker.

• A pedagogy for robots?

  Algorithms are not merely finite series of procedures of computation but are also generative agents conditioned by their exposure to the features of data inputs Louise Amoore There is a need for an AI ethics – but how to implement it in a broad manner? A pedagogy to train AI at large? Make the algorithm our pet Hypothesis : For a capable infrastructure of algorithms, a dictum of transparency, i.e. to open the algorithmic black box, to handle harms isn't feasible. Comparatively, no one really understands the inner life of a pet dog, but we can […]

• Algorithm forecast

  A forecast for algorithms / AI Think: What's the next big thing on YT