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Automatic Monitoring of Surveillance Cameras
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automatic Monitoring of Surveillance Cameras

Out of work at MIT.  A classic problem.  Think of this also as an event analysis situation where we are seeking changes and outliers and need to search possibilities...

Connecting Exercise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Connecting Exercise

In GigaOM: MiGym is designed to better connect the health club exerciser and the customer.  Quantifying the health club workout.  I like the general idea, though...

2013 CSTA Annual Conference
From Computer Science Teachers Association

2013 CSTA Annual Conference

Are you ready for some great Computer Science and/or IT professional development? Or, do you have some great professional development that you would like to share...

On the Fallacy of Zero Sum Thinking
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Fallacy of Zero Sum Thinking

Via Mark Perry.  Real situations are not zero-sum scenarios, they have unknown contexts and unintended  consequences. Always. Be prepared for that.

Onward, Upward, and [In]ward
From The Noisy Channel

Onward, Upward, and [In]ward

It’s that time — the end of another great year. It’s been a phenomenal year for LinkedIn, for my amazing team of data scientists, and for me personally. The end...

Looking Back, Looking Forward
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Looking Back, Looking Forward

This seems to be the time that people look back on the previous year and forward to the new year. It’s almost January which was named after Janus who is often pictured...

Resolutions and Goals for 2013
From updated sporadically at best

Resolutions and Goals for 2013

It has come time for me to publicly announce my goals for 2013 in order to shame myself into following through.I have the following resolutions.Only acquire things...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Scientific Gifts

And a new place to look for them? src George Dyson is the author of Turing’s Cathedral. This book was newly released when we saw copies at Princeton’s celebration...

Emergent Distribution Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emergent Distribution Models

Viewing distribution models.   " ...  With direct sales forces under heavy pressure and channel partners becoming scarcer as the reseller market undergoes shifts...

Corporate Culture and Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Corporate Culture and Innovation

In Innovation Excellence:  Culture is essential for innovation to work.  The real culture.  I have been in organizations where the apparent culture promoted innovation...

Building Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Networks

How do you build a better personal business network?   From Knowledge at Wharton.  Good piece: " ... successful networking goes far beyond handshakes and business...

Zen Living by the Rules of Soyen Shaku
From updated sporadically at best

Zen Living by the Rules of Soyen Shaku

In thinking about what I want out of 2013, I have become inspired by the rules of Soyen Shaku, the first Zen teacher to come to America.  Here they are, fromZen...

Why I Go Out
From updated sporadically at best

Why I Go Out

My friend Neha sent me this piece Why Go Out, in which Sheila Heti compares going out (to bars, clubs, parties, and the like*) to a cigarette habit, discusses the...

Treat Yo Self: Clean Up Your Code
From updated sporadically at best

Treat Yo Self: Clean Up Your Code

A couple years ago, I discovered what I thought was the shortcut to building research systems.  Forget good software engineering practice!  Forget functional abstraction...

Why do students pay for the research professors do?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Why do students pay for the research professors do?

Universities require their professors to publish research papers. Yet publishing your research has little to do with most of the teaching that goes on in universities...

Friday Squid Blogging: William Gilly, Squid Researcher
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: William Gilly, Squid Researcher

Good article. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

PBX Project
From Wild WebMink

PBX Project

I’ve written a bit about my holiday project to try the Raspberry Pi as a PBX over on InfoWorld today.

I Seem to Be a Verb
From Schneier on Security

I Seem to Be a Verb

From "The Insider's TSA Dictionary": Bruce Schneiered: (V, ints) When a passenger uses logic in order to confound and perplex an officer into submission. Ex: "A...

Becoming a Police Informant in Exchange for a Lighter Sentence
From Schneier on Security

Becoming a Police Informant in Exchange for a Lighter Sentence

Fascinating article. Snitching has become so commonplace that in the past five years at least 48,895 federal convicts -- one of every eight -- had their prison...

Who Uses Neuromarketing?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Who Uses Neuromarketing?

During the early days of our cognitive science work we often asked this question. Who among Fortune 500 companies have used techniques to measure and understand...
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