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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
Influential Logos
Roger Dooley looks at the non-conscious influence in corporate logos. He mentions the infamous P&G logo and satanism that started back in the 70s. I experienced...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - August 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 8)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the August issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-08-17
Hit and Run Hula Ambushes the Apple Store I'm not a fan of flash mobs but this one looks happy and delightful.Apple FlashMob Hula...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Obsolete Tech
An interesting PCWorld piece on forty obsolete technologies and technology related processes. Directionally it is useful to understand both what is new and what...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Army Suggests that Field Manuals be Wikis
From Slashdot: In some ways this is not surprising. The US military is very good at standardizing input. And yet, a Wiki is a means of doing this in a very non...
From Return 42;
Style Issues?
Since this blog starts to attract more and more visitors, it also becomes more and more important to me to improve my writing. That effort includes not only myThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can't You be Original?
Got a recent e-mail that made me think ... asking me why I almost always use a link to an external source and comment on that instead of writing original pieces...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Not Interested in Lugging Another Device
People like me who read a lot but are not interested in buying, maintaining and lugging yet another device are interested in multipurposing our smart phones aswrites...
From Apophenia
Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?
Studies like this one by Pear Analytics drive me batty. They concluded that 40.55% of the tweets they coded are pointless babble; 37.55% are conversational; 8.7...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Theories are Useful?
Are business theories all a waste of time? A book review in the HBR blog. I agree in the sense that theories cannot be used directly as blueprints for success...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target-Amazon Divorce
An interesting look at the recent Target-Amazon divorce in Storefrontbacktalk. Suggests that the reasons are to maintain Target's unique identity. I would think...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Physicist Looks at Time Travel
In Slate: Time-Traveling for Dummies, A physicist looks at The Time Traveler's Wife, By Dave Goldberg. Also a favorite subject of mine. I read the book but have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Single Screen Measurement
From Adage: Many of the big players mobilize to create a single measurement across all marketing screens. An excellent idea, the devil will be in the details....
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Connecting Colleges & High Schools
It's hard to believe that summer is almost over and classes will be starting soon for most of us. I'd like to introduce myself to the blog - I am Dave Reed, the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Picking a Web Page at Random on the Web
To do statistics over the Web, we need samples. Thus, I want to know how to pick a Web page at random, without making much effort. If you are Google or Microsoft...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Articulated Flapping Wing Aircraft
Another one of those long talked about developments. Using the means that insects and birds use to fly. The world's frst successtul test flight of a nano air...
From The Eponymous Pickle