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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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Changing Views of Business Intelligence
Continuing my review of alternative views of Business Intelligence, an article by Dave Wells: The Changing Face of Business Intelligence. " ... industry has strayed...
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Starbucks Tree Rings
Junk Charts shows a particularly bizarre misuse of data visualization design by Starbucks. Seems the visual designers would not use something as simple as a bar...
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Semantic Desktop
In Tech Review:People naturally group information by topic and remember relationships between important things, like a person and the company where she works. But...
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Kraft's Meal Planning Tool
Have downloaded and played with Kraft's Mobile Food Assistant application. Delivers some seven thousand recipes, a smart shopping list and recipe box. A bit slow...
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Antikythera Mechanism Modeled
I was introduced to this archaeological puzzle as an undergraduate. Now its model has led to more mysteries.
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Decrease in Comparison Site Visits
StorefrontBackTalk reports that there has been a sharp decrease in price comparison site visits, despite the economy. The post and comment show how complex the...
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LibraryThing Runs a uClassify Contest
Always interesting LibraryThing is running a contest using free online uClassify to classify text. I mentioned uClassify a short time ago and used it to classify...
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Too Many Business Intelligence Tools
CW reports that Forrester has released a report that managers believe they have too many BI tools in house. Although I have not read the full report yet, I agree...
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Robotic Bike Parking in Japan
An interesting 'robotic' bike parking system in Tokyo. I agree with one of the commenters on traveling in Tokyo, I rarely had a perspective of where I was in the...
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Seeing 1859 Stereo
I enjoy discussions linking the history of a technology to its current state. This article looks at the stereographic technology of 1859 and how it relates to"...
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Behind the Way We Shop
National Public Radio (NPR) audio recording on Buyology/Neuromarketing: The Buyology Behind the Way We Shop
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Generating Power in Clothing
From Zhong Lin Wang's lab:Nano generator that can be grown over fibers.Generates energy by human movements.Ottilia Saxl, chief executive of the Institute of Nanotechnology...
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Blowing into your Cell Phone
There have been a number of keyboard instruments for the IP, so when I first read of a wind instrument app I thought ... how would that work? There is an Ocarina...
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Image Search
Via Google Blogoscoped I see that Google Image search now has some new advanced options which lets you search for just clip art or line drawings. Also previously...
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