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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
Marketing via a Virtual Pinboard
A simple and clever approach. Using a virtual pinboard metaphor to market and promote a site. The enabling site is called Pinterest, which I had not heard of...
From Computational Complexity
How important are the Fib numbers in math? in Nature? In History of Math books?
The following quotes is from In the book Algebra in Ancient and Modern Times by V.S. Varadarajan. Fibonacci numbers thus grow very fast with N, indeed in geometric...
From Apophenia
We need to talk about piracy (but we must stop SOPA first)
Much to my happiness, the internets are in a frenzy about the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (aka SOPA). Congress is currently in recess, but the House announced a hearing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Software Quality in the Global Supply Chain
In ECommerce Times: Part of a conversation I have been having recently on supply chain design. How is the right data brought together in the quantities required...
From The Noisy Channel
Guided Exploration: Faceted Search, Backwards
Information Scent In the early 1990s, PARC researchers Peter Pirolli and Stuart Card developed the theory of information scent (more generally, information foraging)...
From Schneier on Security
The Importance of Good Backups
Thankfully, this doesn't happen very often: A US man who had been convicted on a second-degree murder charge will get a new trial after a computer virus destroyed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Software Engineering High School
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From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Use Random Hashing if you Care About Security?
Hashing is a programming technique that maps objects (such as strings) to integers. It is a necessary component of hash tables, one of the most frequently used...
From Schneier on Security
Going Dark to Protest SOPA/PIPA
Tomorrow, from 8 am to 8 pm EDT, this site, Schneier on Security, is going on strike to protest SOPA and PIPA. In doing so, I'll be joining Wikipedia (in English)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 January 2012
Sorry this is late today. Not a good weekend or morning either. Should be close to 100% for the workshops I am presenting in Vermont on Wednesday and Thursday though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accurate Robot Essay Graders
an interesting effort. . As the article asks, the end of multiple choice questions? This does delve into the nature of semantic meaning. A friend suggests it...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
You Will Fail to Have a Great Career
Larry Smith told the TEDxUW (University of Waterloo) audience that they will fail to have a great career. After all, there are ever so many excuses that crop up...
From Schneier on Security
PCI Lawsuit
This is a first: ...the McCombs allege that the bank, and the payment card industry (PCI) in general, force merchants to sign one-sided contracts that are based...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST Seeking Submissions to Text REtrieval Conference
The National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) — which recently posted a solicitation containing opportunities for computing researchers — is now out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualization of the History of Personal Computing
A visualization of personal computing via graphs of units shipped, from 75 to the present. From lumbering desktops to the very fast emergence of tablets.
From Computational Complexity
The Information Flood
Twitter, Facebook, Google+. Information now comes to us as a faucet. If you don't drink it all it disappears forever. Try to find status updates and tweets from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Branding Chatter
See Ed Burghard's paper.li online paper Branding Chatter. He is a former Harley Procter Marketer at Procter & Gamble who has lots of insightful things to say on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Successful Brands about Places
Ed Burghard sends along his blog post on developing brands about places. Thoughtful. " ... I started the article off with a definition of place branding. At the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
One Bit Can be Stored in 12 Atoms
A report on research at IBM that has decreased the number of material atoms required to store a single bit of information from about a million iron atoms to only...
From The Eponymous Pickle