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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 …
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Introduction to Bayesian Networks
I may have included this in a previous post, but it is worth repeating. A good basic introduction to Bayesian Network methods from Conrady Science, which integrates...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CRM Data is Incorrect or Out of Date
Frost & Sullivan and IBM write about the problems with CRM data. The article contains many statistics about the problem and how integrating solutions that making...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Recursion First
I’ve long had mixed feelings about recursion. (I’ve written about recursion several times in this blog.) In one post, Recursion Early, Recursion Late, I wrote about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Technology to Drive Loyalty
It has now been many years since the first use of loyalty data processes. Technology continues to help leverage these ideas by leveraging the economic exchanges...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Dining With Robots in Silicon Valley”
From The New York Times‘ Bits Blog yesterday: Millions of people watched a robot descend last week on Mars, about 154 million miles away, while it shared video,...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptocat
I'm late writing about this one. Cryptocat is a web-based encrypted chat application. After Wired published a pretty fluffy profile on the program and its author...
From Wild WebMink
Saving Mandriva
Can a community-centric approach save Mandriva from bankruptcy? My article today on ComputerWorldUK takes a look.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better, Simpler, Cheaper
What makes the the European retailer Tesco great? I have interacted with them a number of times and they are impressive in their use of technology and analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Acquires Frommers
This content acquisition includes some 350 travel guides. Searchable I assume. Making Google more of a published travel content location rather than just a portal...
From Schneier on Security
Preventive vs. Reactive Security
This is kind of a rambling essay on the need to spend more on infrastructure, but I was struck by this paragraph: Here's a news flash: There are some events that...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On Feeding Your CPU With Data
Can you guess the speed difference between these two lines of code? The first line of code does N additions: for (int i=0; i<N;i++) sum+=arr[i]; The second line...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printing a 3D House
Via Mark Perry. Points to a TED talk. Not close to feasible yet, see the comments section for some thoughts on that, but an indication of where the proponents...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Tech Investments They Never Made
An interesting piece in CW about how CIO's decide to make investments in technologies. What they have done or not and why. Done in a story format. Useful from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Analytics in the Utility Industry
Last year I attended a GE Smart Grid meeting and was inspired to take a closer look at how smart data and analytics are improving utility efficiency. I continue...
From Schneier on Security
U.S. and China Talking About Cyberweapons
Stuart Baker calls them "proxy talks" because they're not government to government, but it's a start.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 August 2012
Well it’s the middle of my vacation. Mostly I’m avoiding the Internet and email. Mostly. I’m not all that good at this vacation thing. In any case I do have a few...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversation with Jun Lee of ReD
Former colleague Lou Killeffer has a conversation with Jun Lee of ReD Associates on design thinking, strategies of innovation and how human behavior and views are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Still not Paperless After all These Years.
Have you noticed we are still not in a paperless world? It was predicted years ago, but I still get paper mail receipts, notes, specification sheets, businessArs...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Changes I Plan Make
Recently I read an article by Noa Gutow-Ellis a 10th grader in Houston, Texas: http://www.teachthought.com/industry/what-makes-teachers-great-from-the-perspective...
From The Eponymous Pickle