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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Linux and the financial crisis
On December 2007, the New York Stock Exchange adopted Linux. In late August 2008, we saw one of the worse worldwide stock market crash of the last hundred years...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-08-22
Mark Shuttleworth on patents, tablets and the future of Ubuntu | TechCentral Interesting interview with Mark, who I consider one of the key thinkers of the software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Devices in the Enterprise
Transcript: ACM CTO Roundtable on Mobile Devices in the Enterprise: Finding solutions as growth and fragmentation complicate mobile device support ...
From Schneier on Security
Pseudonymity
Long essay on the value of pseudonymity. From the conclusions: Here lies the huge irony in this discussion. Persistent pseudonyms aren't ways to hide who yoube...
From The Noisy Channel
Dream. Fit. Passion.
A few days ago, our CEO Jeff Weiner led a session at LinkedIn on how to “close” candidates — that is, how to persuade candidates to join your team once you have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 August 2011
No out of the area travel for me last week. It was nice to sleep in my own bed every night. This is not to say that I wasn
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Effects on Memory
It has been debated now for some time. It reminds me of the debate when calculators first became common. Will we forget how to perform arithmetic functions if...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Contemporary Bayes
New on a favorite topic: 'The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Airlines Testing Tablets as Flight Bags
Delta and other are looking at tablets as a means to deliver knowledge to pilots. More fragile than paper, need to be charged, probably lighter net than a stack...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Development Kits
More biologically inspired Intelligence, recently saw this. Have not looked at it in any detail but the idea of plug in machine learning is something we alsoai...
From Putting People First
A focus on qualitative research in France
In a series of blog posts Rebecca S. Kuchar of Sylver Consulting illustrates the challenges and rewards of orchestrating global and multi-cultural research. A first...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 August 2011
No out of the area travel for me last week. It was nice to sleep in my own bed every night. This is not to say that I wasn’t busy. I had some meetings with the@purplespatula...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Colleague Mentions the Hapax Legomenon
The dreaded Hapax Legomenon is mentioned and I have to look it up. Nothing to do with children's building blogs or Greek Gods. Its a kind of 'black swan' of literature...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Using Consumer Generated Media
This has not happened very often: P&G leverages consumer-generated media "Life Opens Up," a Procter & Gamble campaign for Crest and Oral-B, uses consumer-generated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patient Navigators
And if needed, the patient circle can be choreographed by the patient navigator, something I am thinking about now.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numerical Errors
In the WSJ Blog, the Numbers Guy: We increasingly depend on data of many kinds. What happens when it is simply wrong? It happens more often than you think. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Car Makers Test EEG Headrests
In Technology Review: The object will be to test sleepiness in drivers. More embedded sensors. Will other biosensors be far behind? " ... The brain-sensing hardware...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog