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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
Hadoop and Metadata
Excerpts from recent research about meta data use in the enterprise. From Hortonworks and more in Infoq:" ... One of the most attractive qualities of Hadoop is...
From Putting People First
The Internet of Words
In his review of the recent books by Alice E. Marwick and danah boyd, Ted Striphas focuses on how they guide us in understanding how the internet is affecting our...
From Putting People First
White House launches UX-focused Digital Service team
Yesterday, the White House formally launched the U.S. Digital Service. “The Digital Service will be a small team made up of our country’s brightest digital talent...
From Putting People First
UX without user research is not UX
UX teams are responsible for creating desirable experiences for users. Yet many organizations fail to include users in the development process. Without customer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multi Sensory Marketing
Advertising through multiple sense. In Shopperception. '... When two or more senses receive stimulation at the same time - cause shoppers to stay in the store...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 August 2014
One more week until I return to school for the new year. I’ve been spending a lot of time planning and thinking about how to teach things better this year thanThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uses for Neurosynaptic Chips
So what are the applications for neurosynaptic chips? That are on the near horizon today. Here are some examples The Internet of Things is a marketer's dream...
From The Eponymous Pickle
EEG Capture Service
When I worked with a neuromarketing analyis company one of the limiting issues was how to accurately, effectively and economically gather EEG signals in multiple...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A culture of envy
Many people are worried about their social status and inequality. We live in what I call a culture of envy. Matt Welsh, a software engineer who previously was a...
From Schneier on Security
Irrational Fear of Risks Against Our Children
There's a horrible story of a South Carolina mother arrested for letting her 9-year-old daughter play alone at a park while she was at work. The article linked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Stabilization Tools
In the BBC. New work out of Microsoft on video stabilization. A topic we followed for the analysis of video streams of shopper behavior. " ... Microsoft researchers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH System to Scan Social Media for Drug Trends
The University of Maryland’s Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) has received five years of funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tag Management
In ClickZ: A broad discussion. Have been involved in several projects that have dealt with the management of data and metadata using tags. Its less about the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hadoop not Killing the Data Warehouse
Why Hadoop Isn't Killing The Data Warehouse ..... Apache's open-source software framework is the future, but it won't extinguish the past. Never thought there...
From Computational Complexity
Quetions that arose teaching HS students crypto
I taught a 3-week, 3-hours-a-day course to HS student titled Computer Science: A Hands Off Approach. Given that time constraints and the fact that some already...
From The Eponymous Pickle
About the End of Work
In Kurzweil: Podcast and text. Kurzweil and company discuss the dilemma of no labor force." ... The jobless economy: a fully automated, engineered, robotic system...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikibrains Semantic Visualization Tool
Former colleague writes Leon Markovitz writes:" ... Currently, I'm in TLV helping develop wikibrains.com, a cool tool to quickly create data visuals. We try to...
From Writing
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads - and that's ok.
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." - Jeff HammerbacherThere is a meme going around that too many programmers...
From Writing
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads - and that's ok.
There is a meme going around that too many programmers are wasting their careers working on meaningless software: they spend all their time trying to get people...
From The Eponymous Pickle