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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
Losing the Journal
One of my earliest analytics tasks was to look at the effect of alternative magazine article ads. So this was sad to see: " ... Sad Ending to the Ladies' Home...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Delivering TV over the Internet
In Adage: " .... In the race to deliver TV over the Internet, Charlie Ergen's Dish Network Corp. is pulling ahead. And that may have implications for marketersWith...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Long Lasting Authority
Very useful short piece. Is often brought up as key achievement: 5 Ways to Build Long-Lasting Authorityby John Jantsch
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Search Visual History
In Engadget: A mostly visual view of changes in Google search. A reminder of how the search giant has involved from Google? to a common verb. Also an indicator...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selection of R Books and Resources
A good review of R books and online resources, several of which I have taken a look at. As usual these days, you don't have to buy a book to get quality information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Acquires Nokia
Microsoft completes $7.2B acquisition of NokiaAs expected, sets up 'Microsoft Mobile' subsidiary based in Finland ...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
It's called "Tentacles." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Payments Future
Are mobile payments finally ready to take off? In Bain, a survey. " ... We think that’s about to change, given an unprecedented rise in the momentum among consumers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Manipulation Tricks in R
Often the most difficult things to do in a new language is manipulating data in a fairly straight forward manner. Then you can build upward from a set of simple...
From Apophenia
Rekindling my blogging practice: Why I’m part of “The Message” on Medium
When I started blogging in 1997, it was a social practice. It was something that my friend Andrew and I started doing connected to an independent study that we...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
So Many Myths About Teens and Computing
For the last year and a half I have been back in the classroom as a full-time teacher. It’s a lot of fun working with the students. It’s been a bit eye-opening...
From Putting People First
Why VC firms are snapping up designers
Irene Au, former head of Google’s User Interaction Team, is the latest designer to make her way to a venture capital firm. Here’s why VCs are so hot for designers...
From Putting People First
There’s a backlash against nudging – but it was never meant to solve every problem
Sceptics fail to grasp that this is a strategy that improves lives while treating citizens with dignity – unlike coercion, argues Cass Sunstein. It is true that...
From Putting People First
What if doctors could prescribe behavior change?
Doctors have known for decades that, in order to prevent disease or its complications, they were going to have to get into people’s living rooms and convince them...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Galactic Sorting Networks
An improved sorting network to appear at STOC 2014 Teaching page source Michael Goodrich is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California at Irvine,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Dealing with Bad News
Former P&G CIO and MS Exec Bob Herbold writes about how to deal with bad news. In particular to be sure it is reported on and dealt with. " ... The recent sequence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Application Support and Maintenance
In CIO: A good overview on the topic, often done haphazardly. " ... It is hardly surprising—given the overriding emphasis on creating new apps, supporting existing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon App for Sellers
Have been involved in selling on Amazon for some time .... So understand the implications .... Automates a number of things sellers often do manually, considerable...
From Writing
Bitcoin by analogy
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From Computational Complexity