Barcelona Littleshell

I have recently been covering the Global Editors Network Summit in Barcelona and publishing articles on their website . Here is the first one: Automated journalism marked the start of the GEN Summit in Barcelona. 'It is the next logical step: let the computer do one more task,' said moderator Yves Eudes from Le Monde. News-writing computers make journalists feel their jobs are at risk and also 'Who wouldn’t like to get rid of journalists?' he inquired humorously. Some impressive first experiments of robot journalism were then shown.   Robot Journalism Bootcamp    Global Editors Network Among them,  NarrativeScience  uses Quill, an artificial intelligence platform to generate stories from data. For the time being, they are mostly about sports and business. 'The reason why some of these stories are not written by people is because there isn’t enough interest,' said Larry Birnbaum, from Northwestern University, who also mentioned 52,000 school descrip...

Dear reader, As a follow-up to my previous A thousand thank yous , I want to share A thousand paintings with you. Numbers have always fascinated me, even if unfortunately I have forgotten lots of things I once knew about them.   A thousand paintings is an initiative that brings together art and science. Swiss artist and biologist Sala has been selling square paintings of numbers 1 to 1000 similar to the above from 2006, and as he says on his blog: "On May 30th and 31st 2006 alone, 322 paintings have been sold - most probably the highest number of unique, handmade paintings sold on the internet within such a short time. Paintings have been shipped to 27 countries all over the world." The above number is the lowest number available at the moment, for a price of $714,40 today. Only a scientist's mind (I think) could work out the following changing price system: "Generally, the value of a number is defined by the number itself, in the followi...