Computation Jockey: For Education,
Outreach, and Expression

Daniel Rockwitz Reynolds
Buffalo Public Schools
Ed.M

With Christopher Nicolai for Technical Demo (www.mandelics.com)

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What is Computation Jockey?

Theoretical Underpinnings

"Whatzneva I play, it gots to be funky"
                 - James Brown (Make it funky)|"misquote"

funny....I use "whatzeneva" and "funky" in a few sentences a day

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Wolfram Funk O’ Meter
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Work I did on Hip Hop education: https://www.youtube.com/user/ubhiphopacademics

But Can Hip Hop Teach STEM?

GZA from Wu Tang at MIT and Harvard talkign STEM Education: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/gza-talks-lectures-science-and-dark-matter-20120403
Buffalo Schools on Hip Hop Culture with Chris Emdin: http://news.wbfo.org/post/speaker-shares-advice-urban-educators

We need to “make it funky to reach the kids”!

Psychedelic

Definition one : "Of making one' s mind visible"

Definition two : "Of projecting one’s SOUL"

From "Electronic Zen: The Alternate Video Generation" by Jud Yalkut
http://www.vasulka.org/archive/Artists10/Yalkut,Jud/ElectronicZen.pdf

Psychedelic Lineage of Wolfram/Mathematica

\ visionary covers!!!

\ advertising!!!

"Trippy" first webpage!!!

Some Literature To Catch Up On Video and Visionary Art

The history of conceptual filmmaking and comnputer and motion graphics are inextricably interconncected. 
- Impulses- Tools by Christiane Paul and Jack Toolin (The Emergence of Video Processing Tools Volume 1 ,page 65

Some Pioneering Video Art Concepts

Bill Etra - Heartbeat (biofeedback in 1973)

Nam June Paik- Good Morning Mr. orwell (worldwide satellite art in 1984)

Safety of mind for showing mathematical vision

I believe that CJ could be an alternative to drugs as a way to build visionary intelligence
http://www.thebatavian.com/howard-b-owens/prior-to-his-2013-christmas-eve-death-ryan-bergman-struggled-to-find-his-place-in-the

Development Milestones:

CJ is getting TON of buzz and here I will talk about a busy year of devcelopment and outreach.

Slides and telling positive stories of STEM used with CJ over the last year

Here I will talk about and show some images of:

April 2016: Mathematica Symposium at New School in NYC. This was the first major venue announcement and demonstration of CJ development, concept, and paradigm. Presented for 1 hour on the topic of CJ.

Wolfram Technology Conference 2016. This was a major presentation on the topic of CJ unveiling it to the worldwide Wolfram technology community with further outline of general principles and simple tech demo fo control interface.

Ithaca College’s Educational Technology Day. A major 1-hour talk on CJ   https://www.ithaca.edu/edtechday/docs/etd2017fullprogram.pdf

Wolfram Summer School: Here I will show videos, pictures, and tell inspiring stories from the Wolfram Summer School 2017 with real mathematical and technical challenges

Wolfram Visiting Scholar Residency: Short stories of math visualization development and outreach planning with some interactive media developed

Buffalo Infringement Festival 2017:
Slides and clips of CJ in major malls and venues on return to Buffalo

Clips and stories of using CJ positively in classroom

“Telematic” interaction through Wolfram Cloud

“Untied dog in a telematic society,
Ain’t your average Huckleberry Hound”
                      - George Clinton (Atomic Dog)

Here I will show some demo tech of sending images to be manipulated via cloud from people into CJ live.

Also I will talk about development into stereoscopic 3D and real data on development to use High-Core CPU or GPU for stereoscopic theatrical CJ competitions starring youth with tech demo.

Show plans to “drive computation like a caddy”

Also discuss speech recognition in AI compuational assistance

Let’s Get Roger Penrose to CJ his Future Talks!!!

“One thing that I rather like about Roger Penrose is that he writes quite good Mathematica code” - Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Summer School 2017

Mathematical Visualization

DI:“We were talking before about how you think about numbers,and I thought that was interesting.So,how do you see numbers?”
ZYT:“Just,I may sort the numbers in my mind.Or we say,‘in my brain’.But how’s the situation,the position of the numbers,is very hard to say.I got some very strange feeling like the numbers appearing,like a line,maybe like the matrix,maybe like the cube or something like this.I have such a feeling,its hard to tell by words.”
-Zhang YiTang in discussion with David Eisenbud in 2013  time 53:46

I count the moments we' re apart and add them up mathematically,
And multiply them by the kisses I’ve ben missin’ supposedly
Divided by the attention, not to mention, the affection
Subtract that from your growth potential and see I ain’t missin none

Cause any percentage of you is as good as the whole Pi
And any fraction there of returns dividends of interest
Yes, any percentage of you is as good as the whole Pi
And any fraction there of returns dividends of love
  --- Mathematics of Love (Parliament-Funkadelic featuring Kim Burrell)

Real-Time Fractals Generation

http://mandelics.com/photo/realtime-general-julia.html

Visualizations: Biology

Psycho alpha disco beta bio aqua do loop!
Psycho alpha disco beta bio human you loop!
              -Parliament  Funkadelic (Aquaboogie)
              
When I start churnin’, burnin’ and turnin’
I’ll make your atoms move so fast
Expandin’ your molecules
Causing a friction fire
Burnin’ you on your neutron
Causing you to scream
“Hit me in the proton, BABY!”
 - Dr. Funkenstein

One interesting type of biology to visualize is Riemann spaces with groups related to protein folding.

First thing's first,I'm the realest (realest)
Drop this and let the whole world feel it (let them feel it)
And I'm still in the Murda Bizness
I could hold you down,like I'm givin' lessons in physics (right,right)
-Iggy Azalea (lyrics from the hit pop song “Fancy”)

“Now almost everything,if you changed it very much… the electric charge of the electron,the mass of this or that particle,various constants of nature:how strong gravity is… if you changed it by a few percent,10 percent,some of them 20 percent,some of them 30 percent,you would really be in trouble.The universe would not look as it does.”
-Leonard Susskind

Maybe we can make the world safer for future through funk and visionary art? CJ is one of our best hopes (IMHO)

With Electronic Bait
Man’s been Nuclear fishin’
And the fish on his line
is bigger in his mind
Than the reality of the real he has to reel it in
     - George Clinton: You Shouldn’t Nuf Bit Fish

Conclusion: We now have the potential to build what the ultimate art station that Video and Visionary artists have been looking for, and Wolfram Language with CJ concepts the potential to cap this with STEM

Talking on early days of TV Lab and Paik Abe Synthesizer. Well,Stan Brakhage came through the lab… There’s Nam June Paik and he’s showing Brakhage stuff on his synthesizer which was basically,he’d taken color yolks,tv yolks,and put it over smaller black and white yolks so he could distort it with audio signals,and he had all these electronic oscillators,and stuff,and it was chaos,and the colorizer was basically a sony camera encoder that had 3 extra inputs so it was RGB Cyan Magenta and Yellow inputs and people could through the oscillator and various pictures in,and the sony cameras,and Shuya Abe of course,Shuya had built the colorizer and the synthesizer and it’s a wonderful machine.Brackage looks at all theis and turns to Nam June and says “Can it make a tree?” And Nam June said something… he was a brilliant philosopher,people may have thought he was crazy,they used to put English subtitles on when he spoke English,the man had a degree,a doctorate from philosophy from a German university,he spoke 4 languages fluently… well anyway he turns to Brackage and says “Too young,still too young.”
                               - Bill Etra, Telematic Etra Session 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj5fVXHDiYo Time 36:00

Challenges

If you can do any of these challenges, you get a signed abstract mathematical artwork by me and also a printed and signed OFFICIAL  CJ Certificate of Contribution to the Community... first awesome one Quneo midi controller too!
-   A song show called Hip Hopf Fibration
-  Protein folding artistic display using MIDI controls
-  Scratch real Ligo data of Binary Black Hole or Binary Neutron star collapse
- "funky" curve from above search
- "Computer Love" by Zapp emulation or showing old computer history
- Kraftwerk "Pocket Calculator" with N-Spire controls
- Mapping rotations/symmetries of polytopes or groups for real time manipulation (Monster??)
-  Any real legitimate advance to this project (at my discretion) technically or artistically