improvements to PDF processing are necessary to improve the user experiencefor augmented reading interfaces

the “clothed” eye of inscription devices

convolution (which is the underlying operation of a Gaussian blur) has to loop over each field of the Gaussian kernel for each pixel in the image. However, if you convert both the image as well as the Gaussian kernel to the frequency domain (using one of the many Fast Fourier Transform algorithms), convolution becomes an element-wise multiplication.

“seeing ma-chine,”

opacity:aseachvariablesuchasapixeliscomputedasavectorinrelationtoallothervariables,

Image of noise

editing video in a language that one is only partially fluent in.

the idea behind literate programming, too -- the idea that the stuff for humans should be the default context, and the highly constrained stuff parsed by the computer should be an exceptional mode within that

you're going to push people to make sound in the ways that are legible to the computer. you may start to think that the text is the 'canonical' format

a cheap physical object, made of sound instead of writing, where both consuming it and creating it feel immediately at hand.

the device immediately (or even in real time, while you're speaking?) prints out a little receipt that 'contains' (that is) the audio that it just recorded2

very highly rendered fake world