Powerful neural networks could soon train on smartphones with dramatically faster speeds and less energy.

"Neural networks can be as unpredictable as they are powerful. Now mathematicians are beginning to reveal how a neural network’s form will influence its function"

This comes from the Walker Art Center Mag collab w [Are.na](http://Are.na) offering a bunch of links to interesting projects and artists working to imagine and produce alternative web structures.

Seems similar to that CoinHive Monero miner that was going around for a while, only instead of mining crypto with user computing power, it will store files.

"Pop stars are better understood as monarchic CEO’s of content production studios atop a feudal, trickle up, creative economy. They have adapted to the online ecosystem far faster than the critical systems that might have one day raised _...Read More_

Part 2wo of the death of the open web imagines its rebirth as a global mobile mesh network connecting 4 billion people in the developing world, running something like Usenet, hopefully coming to fruition before the tech oligarchy devours _...Read More_

An optimistic opinion about the future of social networks

This is pretty cool - the sort of thing late 00s internet art was enthusiastic about. Similar dynamics to those of Wikipedia or Secondlife at play. Facebook and Twitter failed to capture this kind of conscious constructivism because they _...Read More_