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Service Manual AR from Metaio and VW
From The Eponymous Pickle

Service Manual AR from Metaio and VW

What is growing as an application for Augmented Reality, the delivery of automobile service manuals for a concept car.   Here for technicians.  GigaOM discusses...

Notes from the Andreessen Horowitz Academic Round Table
From My Biased Coin

Notes from the Andreessen Horowitz Academic Round Table

I've spent the last couple of days attending the Andreessen Horowitz Academic Round Table.  

Simpson's Paradox
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simpson's Paradox

I recall this coming up on some testing we did, the danger of a lurking explanatory variables.  Is very easy to have conformation bias here.   A visual of description...

Interesting Links 30 September 2013
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 30 September 2013

If you are a regular (or irregular) reader of my blog here I hope you will do me the honor of taking a few minutes to respond to a short survey I created last week...

Concept Maps Delivered on an iPad
From The Eponymous Pickle

Concept Maps Delivered on an iPad

Brian Moon of Perigean Technologies helped us elicit knowledge from experts in the enterprise and convert it to the form of concept maps.   He continues to work...

15% Unconnected
From The Eponymous Pickle

15% Unconnected

A remarkable 15% of Americans are choosing to opt out of the Internet.   In a Computerworld article.  " ... according to a study done by the Pew Internet & American...

The 10x developer is NOT a myth
From Writing

The 10x developer is NOT a myth

Last night, I tweeted the following:I'm confused by the claim that "10x" or "rockstar developers" are a myth. Are star athletes, artists, writers, and, uh, rock...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Two Bits About FOCS 2013

How to save money and attend the upcoming FOCS John Cherniavsky is a theorist who published a paper in FOCS 1973, forty years ago. He has done much great work at...

Understanding the Economics of Media
From The Eponymous Pickle

Understanding the Economics of Media

Google's chief economist speaks on the media.   I can barely remember when we had chief economists in the enterprise.   " ... Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist...

Gearing Up for Grace Hopper Next Week
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Gearing Up for Grace Hopper Next Week

For me, today is all about getting ready for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing next week.  As usual, I'm involved with the conference in many different...

Problems with Big Data Correlations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Problems with Big Data Correlations

Short piece that makes good points.  Most telling: People are discontinuous.   Big Data suggests that the more data we have results in better correlations and thus...

Google Acquires Nets Research Company
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Acquires Nets Research Company

Google acquires Neural net focused company DNNresearch.  We worked with artificial neural nets to replace some statistical techniques for shopping behavior analysis...

The problem with big data correlations
From Putting People First

The problem with big data correlations

“The people using big data don’t presume to peer deeply into people’s souls,” argues David Brooks in the New York Times (in a March 2013 column). “They don’t try...

The Qualified Self
From Putting People First

The Qualified Self

Looking at yet another tweet and another post about the Quantified Self, I started reflecting this morning on the Silicon Valley-driven fascination with the quantification...

The science behind using online communities to change behavior
From Putting People First

The science behind using online communities to change behavior

Sean Young, a behavioral psychologist, a family medicine professor and director of innovation at the center for behavioral and addiction medicine at UCLA, addresses...

Share Your Ideas and Experiences at the CSTA Conference
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Share Your Ideas and Experiences at the CSTA Conference

The call for proposals for the 14th Annual CSTA Conference is now live. The conference will be held on July 14-15, 2014 at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles...

GePhi Open Graphics Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

GePhi Open Graphics Blog

Started to follow the GePhi open graphics blog.  Its all about networks, big and small.    Free and open research software.   Examining now.  " ... Networks are...

From Computational Complexity

Complexity and FOCS

The Conference on Computational Complexity Call for Papers is out, deadline November 27. The deadline for early registration and hotel for the FOCS conferenceavailable...

Asking Questions to Tell a Story
From The Eponymous Pickle

Asking Questions to Tell a Story

Speculative.   Story-asking? ...  A post by Althouse brought this to mind.  Where she relates the game played in Tom Stoppard's play (and movie) Rosencrantz and...

Story Driven Data Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Story Driven Data Analysis

In the HBR blog (Registration required).  A well told story is the essence of analytics." ... Great analysts tell great stories based on the results of their analyses...
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