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Anomaly detection

Anomaly detection

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Anomaly detection

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- [Instructor] Some time ago, I opened up Launchpad on my Mac, which is a way of launching applications, and it's supposed to look like this. However, this particular time something weird happened, and this is what I saw instead. Now, normally when you get an anomaly like this, you just restart the app or reboot the computer. But it turns out I'm fascinated by generative art or art that comes through as the result of an algorithm, often with a fair amount of randomness thrown in. So before I restarted things and got it back to normal, I took a screenshot, and I've gone back to it several times. I consider this an excellent example of found generative art, really a happy digital glitch, or a fortuitous anomaly. It's also an example of serendipity or the unexpected insight that can come along. Well-known examples of serendipity include Silly Putty, Velcro, popsicles, and of course, the Post-it notes that every office has. You can think about these as trying to find anomalies, unusual…

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