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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Genetic Algorithms
I am a long time follower and user of genetic algorithms. Here from David E Goldberg on Slideshare: Fast, Effective Genetic Algorithms for Large, Hard Problems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NEIL Learns from Images
I was involved with a startup system that used image recognition and categorization called Photrade several years ago. There I got an appreciation of how difficult...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Markets Please
More open markets and less regulation. Ultimately decreases prices. Mark J Perry does an other post on a favorite market topic of his: Ticket Scalping. Another...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Senior Executives Online
Should senior execs of large enterprises like Wal-Mart, be on Twitter? Some interesting thoughts.But is this an example of attempting to micro manage consumer...
From Schneier on Security
US Working to Kill UN Resolutions to Limit International Surveillance
This story should get more publicity than it has.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Where is the CS Pipeline?
I was contacted by a CS/Math teacher last month who had an interest in hosting CS camps for elementary school students. Since our local CSTA Advocacy group was...
From Putting People First
BancoSmart video – Experientia’s ATM interface for UniCredit Bank
Experientia’s innovative ATM interface for UniCredit Bank has started to roll out across ATMs in Italy, and UniCredit has created a video to showcase some of the...
From Computational Complexity
The Institute for proving Graph Isomorphism is in P
(This post was inspired by Adam Winklers awesome book Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. Disclaimers one: Adam Winkler is my cousin and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Research in Digital Photography
A new look. Video. " ... Researchers are exploring how to use computational optics and digital imagery in new and innovative ways. Lensless cameras, single-pixel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pace of Technology Adoption
Speeding up. in the HBR. Yes, just based on the communications I get, and the large scale misunderstanding we see about how technologies act within product contexts...
From Wild WebMink
Adding Bitcoin Subscriptions
If you’d like to support my writing, I can now accept donation of Bitcoins. You can subscribe to make a monthly donation, or make a one-off donation. I’m using...
From Michael Nielsen
Neural Networks and Deep Learning: first chapter goes live
I am delighted to announce that the first chapter of my book “Neural Networks and Deep Learning” is now freely available online here. The chapter explains the basic...
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance as a Business Model
Google recently announced that it would start including individual users' names and photos in some ads. This means that if you rate some product positively, your...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 November 2013
Starting of this post made me realize that we are exactly a month away from Christmas. I need to get going on shopping for my wife’s presents. I’m running out of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata and Fuzzy Logix
Have had a number of conversations with Teradata recently. And I came rather late to this press release about how they were working with a company I had previously...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Books on Big Data Science
Recently sent out to a requesting correspondent:A very readable, up to date book: Big Data: A Revolution that will transform ... by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Entrepreneurial State
Schumpeter: The entrepreneurial state in System Growth Consulting" ... Advanced economies have become near-obsessed with stimulating innovation in their economies...
From Writing
Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js, JavaScript, and Socket.io
The Play Framework takes a functional programming approach to stream processing (e.g. Comet, chunked responses, WebSockets) by using abstractions called Iteratees...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Wonderlabs
Happened to be in an Apple Store today that was packed with people and it seems as many consultants. This is a growing development. In CWorld:Google wants youComputerworld...
From Putting People First