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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Rise of Scientific Journalism
Dissidents from the Wikileaks have founded a competing organization called OpenLeaks. This new organization would differ from Wikileaks in two important ways: (1)...
From Wild WebMink
Mary Oliver Poetry Reading
I was delighted to have found a video of my favourite poet Mary Oliver reading her own poetry at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on August 4, 2001. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An RFID Turntable
The well known design company IDEO, who helped us construct innovation spaces, has designed a turntable (remember those?) style platform that reads a card withExplained...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows Descend on Washington
Despite the bad weather affecting travel across much of the nation,
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ant Algorithms
New work on the use of biologically inspired methods. Here the problem is finding shortest paths in busy networks. The inspiration is how ants can find theirReport...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HP Gives up on BI
In an intriguing development HP has backed off of their business intelligence and analytics efforts. I have visited HP labs a number of times and was always impressed...
From Wild WebMink
? White Waves
The new Mixed Tape compilation is available – 10 free tracks awaiting download. Most of them got 3 stars in the Webmink Rating System but your taste may vary, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Resources
A good list of social media resources from Mashable. Good for those that want to expand their understanding of social methods.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signals Online
Intriguing essay in Batelle's Searchblog: Signal, Curation, Discovery. On a number of themes in the search industry, the current players and directions being explored...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generated QR codes from Google
Its pretty old news that Google has it's own URL shortener. called goo.gl It is perhaps also old news that you can also use this shortener to create a 2-D QR...
From The Noisy Channel
First Week
It’s hardly surprising, at least in retrospect, that location-based social networking company Foursquare was founded (twice!) in New York City. Where else (at least...
From Wild WebMink
? Cloud Correction
@webminkSimon Phipps Try adding "as long as you don't breach the terms of service – according to our sole judgement" to the end of any cloud computing pitch. about...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-12-11
WikiLeaks: Stop the crackdown As I said in the "Voltaire Moment" article I posted here yesterday, the attacks on our collective freedom resulting from Wikileaks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Carbonara: the Possibilities Behind Exotic Carbon Structures
I got late to this article in the Futurist, which extols the continuing possibilities, boosted by discoveries in nanotechnology, and the annoying delays in their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Analysis Software Survey
A little late, but OR/MS does an excellent survey of decision analysis software every year. If you are interested in the topic, take a look here. " ... Dennis...
From Wild WebMink
? Voltaire Moment Article Available
My article asserting that we need to stand up for Wikileaks’ ability to exist even if we don’t like Wikileaks is now available in the Essays area.
From Schneier on Security
New TSA Security Test
I experienced a new TSA security check at Phoenix Airport last Thursday. The agent took my over-three-ounce bottle of saline, put a drop of it on a white cardboard...
From Michael Nielsen
10th Anniversary Edition of
I’m pleased to say that a 10th anniversary edition of my book with Ike Chuang on quantum computing has just been released by Cambridge University Press (Amazon...
From Schneier on Security