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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 …
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Disney Accelerator Chooses Choremonster
The ChoreMonster system, founded by a former colleague, has been mentioned here a number of times. Now they have been chosen by the Disney Accelerator. The premise...
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Better Shared Marketing Decision Methods
In the HBR Blogs:" ... Marketing increasingly must work across boundaries with other functions such as IT, sales, and finance to execute shared decisions. But...
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3D Loyalty Apps
Retailwire: 3D Loyalty Apps." ... Walgreens has partnered with its loyalty-app partner, Aisle411, to test Google's virtual indoor 3-D mapping technology, Project...
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Watson and Health Process Visualization Using Sankey Diagrams
On the topic of Watson + Visualization, Watson paths is a good example. A research project. " WatsonPaths is a new cognitive computing project that enables more...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Compressing the Local Lemma
Not only did Moser give a near optimal construction, but he did so in my favorite STOC talk of the decade. A Constructive Proof of the Lovász Local Lemma by Robin...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Employee Flees to Hong Kong -- You Won't Believe What Happens Next
The latest story from the Snowden documents analyzes a large cache of intercepted conversations -- actual operational data -- and concludes that 90% of the individuals...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 July 2014
Did you notice that there wasn’t an interesting links post last week? I’ve been on a real vacation with five days of Walt Disney World after ISTE. I spent a lot...
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Emotional Marketing Headline Analyzer
You plug in your blog headline and it calculates its value in a given context. Have not tried it as yet. Click here." .... This free tool will analyze yourYour...
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Visualizing the Data we Have
Video from the US Office of Personnel management (OPM). Leveraging the Data We Have: Utilizing Data Visualization Analytics The general point here is good, we...
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Holographs Brings Back Performers
In the CACM: Technical, but very readable piece on the history and use of the holographic illusion. Remember seeing these live in Disney World a long time ago,...
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Implications of the Right to be Forgotten
In Businessweek: " .... Since agreeing to comply with the European Court of Justice’s decision that people have the right to be forgotten, Google (GOOG) has received...
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Military Glasses
In Defense One, an example of 'military glasses'. How are these different from Google Glass? First with more of an emphasis on usable, task oriented augmented...
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The Meaning of the Rise of in-Car Cameras
Its hard to understand all the implications of connected vehicles. The camera is a particularly interesting case because it is a very broad kind of sensor, soIn...
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RoboHow: Robots Learning in the Cloud
In Engadget: Interesting idea, but would like to see the details of the languages that are used by the robots to transmit knowledge. We should be able to learn...
From Wild WebMink
Heartbleed and Lessons Learned
Originally posted on Meshed Insights & Knowledge:We’ve had some time for the shock of the Heartbleed announcement to sink in and there’s a lot to consider. While...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Do Random Walks Help Avoid Fireworks?
Musings on gravity and quantum on the 4th of July Cropped from Crumbel source Amanda Gefter is the author of the book titled Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn: A Father...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid T-Shirt
Cute design. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
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LA Takes Back a Billion Dollars of iPads
In Reason: Schools replace them with laptops, declare an unmitigated disaster. " .... The Los Angeles Unified School District's plan to give every child an iPad...
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Sensors, 3D Printing and the Cloud
A new industrial Age? Overstated, but it is obvious that all these technologies together will drive specialized component needs to a new place. " ... A...
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