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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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SwipeLingo and Javascript Notebook
I've been working on a couple educational projects since Google, SwipeLingo and Javascript Notebook. SwipeLingo is a quick matching game for touchscreens. Javascript...
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Working at Microsoft
I'm joining Microsoft! I'll be part of the excellent Analytics and Experimentation team, helping people learn from data. I'm excited! I've been geeking out with...
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What has caught my attention lately: Tog (of the famous Tog on Interface) says Apple has lost its way on design: "Apple is destroying design. Worse, it is revitalizing...
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Not working at Google
It was a surprise, to me at least, that I wasn't able to find a good fit at Google Seattle. Google nowadays is different than I expected, and, after four months...
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Working at Google
I joined Google a few months ago. I've wanted to work at Google for a long time. I first interviewed there back in 2003! I've had this blog since 2004, during...
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Some of the best of what I've been thinking about lately: Amazon now has 109 warehouses and 165k employees. Wow. ([1]) Amazon cloud computing has 17% operating...
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Interview on early Amazon personalization and recommendations
Amazon.com in late 1996Amazon.com in mid-1997 I have a long interview with the Internet History Podcast mostly about Amazon around 1997, especially the personalization...
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What I've been thinking about lately: "The chip is so low power that it can be powered off energy capture from the body ... 35 microamps of power per megahertz...
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Data Maven from Crunchzilla: A light introduction to statistics
Crunchzilla just launched Data Maven! Data Maven from Crunchzilla is a light introduction to statistics and data analysis. For too many teens and adults, if they...
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Some of the best of what I've been thinking about lately: Great TED talk titled "The mathematics of love", but probably should be titled "A data analysis of love"...
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What has caught my attention lately: "Ads are often annoying ... [and] the practice of running annoying ads can cost more money than it earns" ([1] [2] [3]) Robot...
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More on what to advertise when there is no commercial intent
Some of the advertising out there is getting spooky. If you look at a product at many online stores, that product will then follow you around the web. Go to BBC...
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Some of the best of what I've been thinking about lately: Tiny cheap satellites will provide near real-time imagery of the entire Earth to anyone who wants it,...
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More of what caught my attention lately: "Make infinite computing resources available internally ... Give teams the resources they need to experiment ... All...
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What has caught my attention recently: Netflix says the value of its recommendations algorithms is $500M/year ([1]) Details on the internals of LinkedIn's recommender...
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At what point is an over-the-air TV antenna too long to be legal?
You can get over-the-air HDTV signals using an antenna. This antenna gets a better, stronger signal with less interference if it is direct line-of-sight and asrecently...
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Why can't I buy a solar panel somewhere else in the US and get a credit for the electricity from it?
Seattle City Light has a clever project where, instead of installing solar panels on your house where they might be obscured by trees or buildings, you can buytwice...
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What caught my attention lately: 12% of Harvard is enrolled in CS 50: "In pretty much every area of study, computational methods and computational thinking are...
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The problem with personalized education
Personalized education has had some spectacular failures lately, in large part due to how tone-deaf the backers have been to the needs of teachers, parents, and...
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