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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 Computational Complexity
An unusual Voting Scheme
(I want to thank Bobby Kleinberg for bringing this to my attention.) Consider the following voting scheme Choose a random person A1. A1 chooses a set at...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 28
UPDATE: The March 29 hearing on cyber attacks has been postponed. No new date has been scheduled. March 29 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Admitting Failure
Charlene Li in the HBR, on the art of admitting failure.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-28
U.S. Develops 'Panic Button' for Democracy Activists – NYTimes.com Amazing they can say all this without noting that the very same technique used by an individual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Data Integration
What is agile data integration?, and how do you do it? Good overview in BeyeNetwork by Ralph Hughes that lists alternatives and describes directions.
From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC Dimensions
A simple BBC site that allows you to graphicaly deal with relative sizes: " ... Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a...
From Schneier on Security
Biliteral Ciphers
Interesting article on William Friedman and biliteral ciphers.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 March 2011
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Library Augmented Reality for Grocery Shelves
Found this Readwriteweb article on book shelf placement to be interesting. I have worked with libraries on catalog systems. It is not only libraries where things...
From The Noisy Channel
Steal These Ideas!
Talk is cheap, as the saying goes. That’s a good thing, since I am always overflowing with ideas that I have neither the time (I love my day job!) nor the money...
From Wild WebMink
? Updated Events List
Events bookings have become busy lately and I realise I need to put more data online. I’ve been working on the About and Events Booking pages on the site and in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook's Question Tool
On Facebook's Question Tool. How is this just released tool good for businesses and brands? Examining further now. " ... The feature, which Facebook rolled out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook's Question Tool
On Facebook's Question Tool. How is this just released tool good for businesses and brands? Examining further now. " ... The feature, which Facebook rolled out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting the Most Out of Adwords
Good article on the topic in Mashable. Continuing to get a grounding in the advertising aspects and how to link that to available quantitative data that supports...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Detox
If you think you need a social media detox, check out this post via GigaOm.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protein Folding Modeling
Speeding up the understanding of how proteins fold, from the MIT CSAIL Laboratory. We examined related approaches in the enterprise. " ... Processing vast amounts...
From Wild WebMink
? San Francisco and The Bay Bridge
I’ve been quite lucky with shots taken from aircraft. My photo of Mount Shasta has been purchased by a publisher as an illustration in a geology textbook, and my...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversational Marketing
Since the Cluetrain Manifesto we have been pushing 'conversational marketing'. Yet I have also observed that it is fairly rare that you get a robust conversation...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson