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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 Return 42;
The Other Side of the Table: Lawrence Paulson
This post in the The other side of the table series is one week late. Sorry for that. As I have mentioned earlier, it is a quite busy time for me at the moment....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paid Traffic Down
Paid online traffic appears to be down about 26%, A very cursory look at the data looks like it is a significant change beyond normal and seasonal variability....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Soap Opera Moving Online
Dave Knox posts on new experiments by Procter with online soap. Links to another local article on the change. Outlines some of P&G's goals. One of the world's largest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pirating Books Expands
With the emergence of popular book readers will will we start to see increasing book piracy? In the NYT ' .... The Association of American Publishers estimated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Singularity
Artificial intelligence and consciousness at the singularity summit. This is still a long ways off-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Counting on Dividends for 119 Years
I worked on a project that helped Procter executives relate and visualize compensation to dividends. It was the first PC based program that execs used directly....
From CERIAS Blog
What About the Other 11 Months?
October is "officially" National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Whoopee! As I write this, only about 27 more days before everyone slips back into their cyber stupor...
From Putting People First
The shift from human-centered to resource-centered design
Eric Wilmot writes on Greener Design on how to design for a post-consumption society. And an excellent article it is. “The current interpretation of human-centered...
From My Biased Coin
"Core" TCS
Enough time has perhaps passed from Mihai's controversial post to consider, constructively I hope, some of the comments that arose here on this blog from it.One...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quick Latitudes and Longitudes
Download Squad mentions a little mashup utility that lets you quickly get latitudes and longitudes for a place name. Used it some time ago and was glad to be reminded...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Challengers
Good Businessweek piece : Can Google Stay on Top of the Web? As Bing, Facebook, Twitter and less well-known upstarts nip at its heels, Google has hundreds of wizards...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alternatives to the CKO
In his blog Mark Montgomery discusses alternatives to the CKO (Chief Knowledge Officer) One of the comments in the thread there points to the fact that there are...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Sensible hashing of variable-length strings is impossible
Consider the problem of hashing an infinite number of keys
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gathering Knowledge with Games
Another capability we studied in the enterprise, here slashdot article talks about patents that IBM has applied for in this via a platform for acquiring knowlege...
From Schneier on Security
"Security Theater in New York City"
For the U.N. General Assembly: For those entranced by security theater, New York City is a sight to behold this week. A visit to one of the two centers of the...
From Computational Complexity
On Being Narrow
In a tweet a few days ago, David Bacon wonders why everyone always assumes all he can do is quantum computing? Oh, because that's all he's done. Time to do something...
From Putting People First