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Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain The Good Life, 2016 Email, Simulator Experience The Good Life: https://enron.email/about

From the Simulator: The Enron email archive is a corpus of more than 500,00 emails, written between 158 senior executives of the Enron corporation during the last years of the company’s operation. In March of 2003, following revelations of Enron’s spectacularly corrupt business practices and subsequent demise, these emails were deemed public domain and released online by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). This was the first release of an email database of this size, and it remains one of the only large public domain collections easily accessible online. As Finn Brunton, author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet, observes "The FERC had thus unintentionally produced a remarkable object: the public and private mailing activities of 158 people in the upper echelons of a major corporation, frozen in place like the ruins of Pompeii for future researchers.”

The corpus has since become a uniquely valuable linguistic resource for computer scientists who have used it to train spam filters and other natural language machine learning systems. This dataset, which was generated by a group of mostly white male corporate criminals, is in our lives in ways we don’t understand and haven’t considered.

An Orbit, part of the Being Radiotropic series Tega Brain

Artist Statement:

We are radiotropes. Just as other lifeforms orientate themselves in response to the sun's radiation, many contemporary human behaviours are shaped by electromagnetic landscapes and signal topographies. We prepare for the quiet zone of the subway and notice how data speeds vary as we move between networks and across geographies. 

Being Radiotropic is a series of eccentric wireless routers that explore this sensitivity and that asks how we might otherwise design our wireless infrastructures.

C was created by Dennis Ritchie in 1972. its a low level general purpose programming language. the language origin is closely tied to the development of unix. Unix is a type of operating system that originally used assembly. The developer of unix wanted to rewrite system but in another language. They considered to write the system in B language. But  B's inability to take advantage of some of the features, notably byte addressability. So that led to the C language.

They are many advantages and disadvantages with this language. the advantages are  C language is a structured programming language. This makes user to think of a problem in terms of function modules or blocks.  There are only 32 keywords in ANSI C and its strength lies in its built-in functions. the disadvantage of the language is that it does not have any object oriented programming capability. There is no runtime checking in C language.

Amit Pitaru stated a very good point about learning. We sometimes fool our self into thinking that some tasks can be easy to learn. In reality, they are many hours of practice that we must do to actually learn a new skills.

When learning a new skills, the beginning is usually the easiest part. For most, when beginning to learn a new skill, the person must be engaged. Meaning the people needs a genuine interested in the subject. That interest is fuel that allow people to keep moving towards their goal to continue. That alone is not enough to make us learn.  

When trying to acquire a new skills you must be realistic about the learning process. When learning anything in life, you must understand that they will be some difficult time. Most people, that transition for beginner to the more advance topic, tend to give up. That is because the learning curve start to get steeper and more difficult. 

the last part Amit Pitaru stated was that you don’t really know something until you can apply it. throughout the video you emphasized that he wanted to learn to code to make instruments. but just learning the basic was not going to help him. he needed to be able to apply his knowledge in a creative way.