Structure in the flow

In the two years preceding my entrance to university, I had spent some time learning about AI and neurosciences, but never delved really deep. In university, having even less free time, I focused more on software engineering. Ever since I’ve wanted to get back to the topic. Lately, pondering about how to fit that into my schedule, I thought this blog will be a perfect pretext: explore the topics and write about interesting things I stumble on along the way.

So I’m still thinking of how to approach this in a structured manner. Yet, sometimes idly browsing YouTube brings amazing results. I was looking for environments in which to test small neural networks “hello world”-equivalent programs and discovered all sorts of interesting videos, only tangentially related, but hey, that’s the whole point of “stumbling upon”, right?

First there was this generative art piece. This reminds me of fractals, though the principle is quite different (the artist says he’s trying to emulate the principle behind butterfly wings patterns ). If you like Winamp/WMP/iTunes visualizations, then try searching for “generative art” on YouTube. Further tangential wanderings led to these:

• Custom music visualization
• Marius Watz
• John Maeda
• San Base