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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 …
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Confidence vs Expertise
Dan Ariely's blog describes a study where participants were more influenced by confidence versus expertise. Very true, though very often confidence comes from expertise...
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Martin Lindstrom Newsletter
Martin Lindstrom, author of Buyology and Brandsense and one of Time's 100 most influential people, has just started an online newsletter. You can sign up here.site...
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Generational Baloney?
Controversial, but I liked this. Classification is a powerful tool, but it also is capable at driving a lot of bad conclusions. I may not agree with all of this...
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Dunkin Run
Dunkin Donuts has set up an IPhone app called Dunkin Run. You have to first set up a Dunkin Donuts account, then download the application. Its meant to set up a...
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AI Overview
Forbes bas published a good set of overview articles on the current state of artificial intelligence. ' ... Can machines think? In 1950, Alan Turing, considered...
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TweetPsych
Anyone can read the posts that anyone has placed on twitter. Thus there are applications like TweetPsych, which you can use to analyze what you, or anyone else...
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Cutting Funds for Libraries
Stan Dyck does a good post on the looming threat of cutting funds for Ohio libraries. A sign of the times. Though I have heard of a number of other things in the...
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The Future of TV
Dave Knox posts a good piece: I have seen the future of TV
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Big Brand Loyalty Fading
In a large scale study of loyalty card customers. In the Financial Times. Not unexpected, but note that the funders of the study stand to gain by these results...
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Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Blog
Long time colleague Richard James, who is always interesting, writes: 'Just got back from P&G Alumni event/few days holiday in Rome. Met some fantastic peopleinteresting...
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Escape from Cubicle Nation
Much enjoyed Pamela Slim's Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur. This is the kind of how-to book that I usually just skim...
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Five Minute Books
I see that Jerry Michalski is putting together an interesting conference call idea. See more at the link. Always love new ideas for sharing knowledge. See also...
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Social Networking Inside the Enterprise
This short article makes the case that social networking inside the enterprise is more important than outside. This was precisely what I was involved with before...
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Google and Amazon Stifling Creativity?
In an interesting and detailed piece, Cory Doctorow writes: ' ... Now, it's not that I hate Amazon or Google, but I do understand that they are fast becoming the...
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Unloaded Dice Program
Mind Hacks points to an excellent podcast program on the science of randomness. ' ... The hour long science trip largely focuses on how we make sense of random...
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Evolving Complicators and Simplifiers
From the Edge, a talk with John Bargh, professor of social psychology at Yale University and director of the ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation and Evaluation)...
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New Neuroscience Blog
Looks to be interesting, I see the posts so far have considerable detail on marketing issues.'We are pleased to announce the launch of Lucid Thoughts, a blog devoted...
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Whole Foods Launches App
I see that Whole Foods has launched an Iphone/ITouch application that indexes its 2000 recipes. The same recipes it has had online. I installed and did some...
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SourceForge Grows Up
I have used the open source developer community Sourceforge a number of times. Its useful because it can point to useful and economical solutions to tough problems...
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