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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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More of what has caught my attention lately: Excellent history of Google's love-hate relationship with management (hint: it's mostly hate) ([1]) Excellent BBC[1]...
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What has caught my attention lately: Dilbert on A/B testing: "Bend to my will and choose the orange button, you mindless click-puppets!" ([1]) Major performance...
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More of what caught my attention recently: Cool new tech, especially for mobile, detecting gesture movements from the changes they make to ambient wireless signals...
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What caught my attention lately: Colorful description of Google's servers in 1999: "A thin layer of cork to protect the motherboards from the cookie trays on which...
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Shouldn't wearable computing let you be super human?
Wearable computing so far seems to be going after mimicking a tablet, but I wonder if the real success will be in augmented perception. Current smartwatches are...
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What caught my attention lately: Windows 8 has caused a big drop in PC sales to businesses, most of which has been picked up by Google Chromebooks (not by Apple)...
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Game Maven: Learn to code by writing games
I just launched Game Maven from Crunchzilla. It’s a new interactive tutorial -- part of the series that includes Code Monster and Code Maven -- that is a step-by...
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What caught my attention lately: Jeff Bezos on what innovators need: "A willingness to fail. A willingness to be misunderstood. And maintaining a childlike wonder...
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I was wrong on Netflix
I was wrong on Netflix. A few years ago, I saw their pricing changes (which overpriced DVD rentals) and streaming catalog changes (switching to only buying whatever...
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What I found interesting lately: Xkcd on the halting problem: "Big picture .... all things must someday die" ([1]) "Your fingerprint isn't a secret; you leave...
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More of what I found interesting lately: The apparent philosophy of the design of biological processes: "Never refactor if you can incrementally add another[1]...
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What has caught my attention lately: Lots of frequently updated, high resolution satellite images + automated object detection at massive scale = crazy cool and...
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Blogging is dead, but have we fixed anything?
Google Reader is shutting down, but most people moved on long ago. Blogging is dead. To the extent that it lives, it is dominated by professional journalists,...
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Again, it has been too long, but here you go, what has caught my attention lately: "Employees who ate at cafeteria tables designed for 12 were more productive...
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It's been a while since I did a Quick Links post, so there's a lot to cover. Here's the latest of what has caught my attention: First Netflix wanted to be Blockbuster...
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Kids, programming, and doing more
I built Code Monster and Code Maven to get more kids interested in programming. Why is programming important? Computers are a powerful tool. They let you doseven...
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Google and the right database for the job
I finally got a chance to read "Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click", a paper out of Google presented at the recent VLDB 2012 conference. It describesDremel...
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More of what caught my attention recently: Android now has 72.4% of the mobile market, up from 52.5% a year ago ([1]) Google's new Nexus 4 smartphone is in...
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Code Maven and programming for teens
I recently launched Code Maven from Crunchzilla. It helps teens learn a little about what they can do if they learn more about programming. A lot of teenstry...
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