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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
Showrooming at Best Buy
I had not realized I was part of BestBuy's showrooming strategy. I was there for the first time in months last week. But they did not ultimately convert me.In...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fastest way to compute the greatest common divisor
Given two positive integers x and y, the greatest common divisor (GCD) z is the largest number that divides both x and y. For example, given 64 and 32, the greatest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NFL Tackling Big Data
In our recent executive briefing we used the work by the NBA using video imaged game recording for gathering big data to understand the detail of game and player...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Showrooming and Webrooming
A retail story, Inspired by a post by correspondent Herb Sorensen. I relate our experience: .... We were recently in local Costco buying a relatively expensive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Engines
Data Engines. A reminder of this topic, which I had forgotten about. You want to perform some analytic process, but where is the required data? Often a big issue...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Re-gifting An Old Theorem
An old theorem re-packaged? Emily Post was America’s premier writer on etiquette for much of the 20th Century. The Emily Post Institute, which she founded in 1946...
From Computational Complexity
To Write, or Not to Write, That Is the Question
Guest post by Vijay Vazirani Our field has been blessed with some great books: classics such as Knuth's volumes and Garey & Johnson literally got the field going...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Many Images
Very useful ideas, especially when we have more happening on mobile and thus smaller spaces.Online Shopping Choices: Less Is Sometimes Better Than More Online shopping...
From Schneier on Security
Operation Vula
"Talking to Vula" is the story of a 1980s secret communications channel between black South African leaders and others living in exile in the UK. The system used...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 (CS2013) Final Report
I was pleased and honored to be a part of the committee that developed this document over a period of several years. If you are interested in undergraduate computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Merry Christmas 2014
Merry Christmas and a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year to all my readers and friends. God Jul og Godt Nyttår Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon Boas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Role of Intuition in Analytics: Abductive Reasoning
Intuition, creativity, even directed randomness are parts of analytics. And thus also part of what we are now calling 'Big Data'. Now how we do implement the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bosch and the Internet of Things
In CWorld: With a special emphasis on Sensors and MEMs. We experimented with several early developers in the smart appliance space." ... Bosch says the future...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Pardon For Alan Turing
I beg your pardon Elizabeth Mary, Queen Elizabeth II, is the Queen of the United Kingdom and of the other Commonwealth realms. She has just today granted Alan Turing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Price of Software
This morning I was reading Robert Scoble’s Age of Context while waiting for my order to be ready at the fish market and came across mention of how inexpensive mobile...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On human intelligence… a perspective from computer science
Whenever I read social scientists, there is often, implicit in the background, the concept of “intelligence” as a well defined quantity. I have some amount of intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mood Sensing Interfaces
Affective computing, and a mention of Clippy. we were there testing it. Is it an essential part of AI? " ... Nearly a decade after its retirement, the advice...
From Schneier on Security
Report on Syrian Malware
Fascinating report from Citizen Lab on the use of malware in the current Syrian conflict (EFF summary and Wired article).
From The Eponymous Pickle