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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The New Chess World Champion
Available for $59.96, or—for free? chessprogramming wiki source Larry Kaufman is a Grandmaster of chess, and has teamed in the development of two champion computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Review of Imitation Game: Alan Turing Movie and Asset Value
Saw the recently released Alan Turing Biopic yesterday.There were a few big errors in fact and emphasis. Like barely mentioning the key Polish results in solving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Process and Culture
Processes, culture are key for successful growthSuccessfully scaling a business requires developing an organizational culture and effective processes, writes Hayagreeva...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Aerosol Innovation
A very complete article on the history and current market of deodorants. An old and stable market. But now Unilever claims a new aerosol innovation. Interested...
From Wild WebMink
Facebook’s Illuminating Algorithmic Cruelty
The ever-presumptive and unremittingly faux-positive peer pressure of Facebook is doing its part this Christmas to re-open wounds of hurt from 2014 for a bunch...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Services
In ComputingNow: (The original article is missing, will seek to replace) Thinking about the concept of an Internet of Services. Look at ISSIP, The International...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Opportunities
In Retailwire: Looking at retail technologies in 2015. I agree, these are all key areas to monitor. Technology will continue to sculpt these areas, as they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Without Statistics
Vincent Granville makes some provocative statements about the interaction of statistics and data science. I often worked with professional statisticians for problems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing the Past
In Sciam: Productive Illusions? Using immersive virtual reality to change our impression of realty, present and past. The general idea has also been experimented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Easier Prototyping for the Independent Inventor
What 3-D Printing Means for the Independent Inventor. In Entrepreneur. " .. Inventing is an iterative process. An entrepreneur learns by trial and error. Prototyping...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Mummers Play Featuring Giant Squid
"St. George, the Dragon, and the Squid: A Preservation Mumming," by the American Folklife Center. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Geeky Christmas Humor
All you AP CS teachers will want to share this one. This one is the for math teachers in the crowd.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pupil Arousal in Shopping
A different kind of eye tracking. Non conscious reactions that are also related to other neuromarketing methods." ... Abstract: The present study proposes arousal...
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Adding Smart Home Devices with a Scan
In Engadget: Nice idea to add to the internet of things for the home. " .... D-Link's latest smart home hub lets you add devices with a scan .... "
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Robots Need to Ask for Your Help
Thinking of Robots collaboratively, even at the simplest level.Researching indoor service robots. A Carnegie Mellon researcher shows that designing robots to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upselling and Cross Selling
Upselling and cross-selling your travel product not only optimizes profits but also enhances your customer’s travel experience and loyalty. Getting it right isIn...
From Schneier on Security
Merry Christmas from the NSA
On Christmas eve the NSA relesed a bunch of audit reports on illegal spying using EO 12333 from 2001 to 2013. Bloomberg article. The heavily-redacted reports include...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Single Finger Programming
Yesterday I was charged with helping my grandson (he’s three months old) get to sleep for a nap. After walking around and speaking softly to him for a while I got...
From Schneier on Security
"Santa Claus and the Surveillance State"
He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He's everywhere. And that's the whole point of the Elf on the Shelf, the bright-eyed, Kewpie-esque...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog