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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 Wild WebMink
links for 2009-08-19
Celtic Sampler Summer 2009: MP3 Downloads Truly delicious selection of Celtic tracks, full of variety and innovation while embracing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Scientists and their emotions
Science is not a matter of pure logic. Some of the best scientists lived through intense emotions
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Path to Purchase
ARF Chief Research Officer Joel Rubinson posts about shopper path to purchase: ' ... Understanding
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Coke Smarter Soda Machine
More details about Coke's smart Freestyle cola machine, now in test. ' ... The smart-machine collects extremely detailed information about drink choices (the dispenser...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Do hash tables work in constant time?
Theory in Computer Science—as in any other field—is based on models. These models make many hidden assumptions. This is one of the fundamental reason why pure theory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers and Mobile Commerce
From Storefrontbacktalk, an excellent overview of the use of mobile commerce by retailers and the potential privacy and standardization 'minefields'. ' ... the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Influential Logos
Roger Dooley looks at the non-conscious influence in corporate logos. He mentions the infamous P&G logo and satanism that started back in the 70s. I experienced...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - August 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 8)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the August issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
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links for 2009-08-17
Hit and Run Hula Ambushes the Apple Store I'm not a fan of flash mobs but this one looks happy and delightful.Apple FlashMob Hula...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Obsolete Tech
An interesting PCWorld piece on forty obsolete technologies and technology related processes. Directionally it is useful to understand both what is new and what...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Army Suggests that Field Manuals be Wikis
From Slashdot: In some ways this is not surprising. The US military is very good at standardizing input. And yet, a Wiki is a means of doing this in a very non...
From Return 42;
Style Issues?
Since this blog starts to attract more and more visitors, it also becomes more and more important to me to improve my writing. That effort includes not only myThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can't You be Original?
Got a recent e-mail that made me think ... asking me why I almost always use a link to an external source and comment on that instead of writing original pieces...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Not Interested in Lugging Another Device
People like me who read a lot but are not interested in buying, maintaining and lugging yet another device are interested in multipurposing our smart phones aswrites...
From Apophenia
Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?
Studies like this one by Pear Analytics drive me batty. They concluded that 40.55% of the tweets they coded are pointless babble; 37.55% are conversational; 8.7...
From The Eponymous Pickle