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The 17x17 challenge. Worth $289.00. This is not a joke.
From Computational Complexity

The 17x17 challenge. Worth $289.00. This is not a joke.

The 17x17 challenge: worth $289.00. I am not kidding. Definition: The n x m grid is c-colorable if there is a way to c-color the vertices of the n x m grid soThe...

Sociality Is Learning
From Apophenia

Sociality Is Learning

This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you're interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to check this blog out. As adults...

Social media
From Putting People First

Social media

Social media could transform the UK National Health Service and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference...

Identifying emerging trends at Nokia
From Putting People First

Identifying emerging trends at Nokia

Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, faces increasing competition from the likes of Apple and Google Android. Identifying emerging trends and building...

Bayes Methods and Manufacturing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bayes Methods and Manufacturing

Regret won't be able to attend this, is of technical interest:Directed Bayes with High-Level Data Applied in Manufacturing by Theodore T. Allen, Ph.D. Associate...

Cloud Computing, Long Ago
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cloud Computing, Long Ago

When I first heard about cloud computing a few years ago I thought it sounded familiar. Central computing utilities. Well it is, as far back as 1965. Just didn't...

links for 2009-11-29
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-11-29

No fiber please Seems the slow roll-out of fibre in the UK caused in no small part by an incredibly badly structured tax imposed...

Fun with Google, Bing, and Yahoo
From The Noisy Channel

Fun with Google, Bing, and Yahoo

Web search is a fiercely competitive space–as Google points out, “competition is just one click away“. In practice, I take that claim with a grain of salt–but I...

Microsoft and Business Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft and Business Intelligence

Good overview of what MSFT is up to in the business intelligence area for large companies, the whole article contains useful details: ' .. Microsoft has unveiled...

Down and Dirty Programming
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Down and Dirty Programming

I read John Harrison's recent blog asking the question whether students are good problem solvers or mimics and it made me consider my latest school experiment. ...

AT&T vs Verizon Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

AT&T vs Verizon Visualization

It particularly attracted me because it dealt with maps and visualization of data. You have seen the ads if you watch any TV or use the Internet. Dueling mobile...

Neuromarketing in Neuromarketer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuromarketing in Neuromarketer

In Chiefmarketer, on neuromarketing. What the Human Brain Means to Your Campaign.-

links for 2009-11-28
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-11-28

EC reshuffle bumps Kroes out of antitrust seat It's more than a "reshuffle" - Baroso has built an entirely new structure for the...

? Thanks For The Music
From Wild WebMink

? Thanks For The Music

So you got through (or, if your not from the US, ignored) Thanksgiving and Black Friday, how about some free music? It's on my personal blog...

Black Friday Crashes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Black Friday Crashes

Evan Schuman reports on a number of e-commerce crashes in StoreFrontBackTalk. Not unexpected as we move online.

Friday Squid Blogging: Two Squid T-Shirts
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Two Squid T-Shirts

From the Feed Store.

Kitchen Computer 1969
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kitchen Computer 1969

I recently posted about a 'home system' being advertised by Verizon. Part of our innovation center research was to understand how specialized systems in a home...

Redlaser Scanner Re-look
From The Eponymous Pickle

Redlaser Scanner Re-look

Redlaser has just issued an update for their IPhone barcode reader. They say it is faster than the previous version. I uploaded it and tested it on a dozen or so...

Run-length encoding (part 2)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Run-length encoding (part 2)

(This is a follow-up to my previous blog post.) Any run-length encoding requires you to store the number of repetitions. In my example, AAABBBBBZWWK becomes 3A-5B...

Signatures of Consciousness
From The Eponymous Pickle

Signatures of Consciousness

In the Edge: Signatures of Consciousness. Very interesting progress: Stanislas Dehaene writes:' ... For the past twelve years my research team has been using...
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