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From The Eponymous Pickle

Pace of Technology Adoption

Speeding up. in the HBR. Yes, just based on the communications I get, and the large scale misunderstanding we see about how technologies act within product contexts... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 25, 2013 at 10:25 AM

From Wild WebMink

Adding Bitcoin Subscriptions

If you’d like to support my writing, I can now accept donation of Bitcoins. You can subscribe to make a monthly donation, or make a one-off donation. I’m using... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | November 25, 2013 at 10:18 AM

From Michael Nielsen

Neural Networks and Deep Learning: first chapter goes live

I am delighted to announce that the first chapter of my book “Neural Networks and Deep Learning” is now freely available online here. The chapter explains the basic... admin
From Michael Nielsen | November 25, 2013 at 09:59 AM

From Schneier on Security

Surveillance as a Business Model

Google recently announced that it would start including individual users' names and photos in some ads. This means that if you rate some product positively, your... schneier
From Schneier on Security | November 25, 2013 at 07:53 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 25 November 2013

Starting of this post made me realize that we are exactly a month away from Christmas. I need to get going on shopping for my wife’s presents. I’m running out of... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | November 25, 2013 at 05:52 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Teradata and Fuzzy Logix

Have had a number of conversations with Teradata recently. And I came rather late to this press release about how they were working with a company I had previously... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 24, 2013 at 09:59 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Books on Big Data Science

Recently sent out to a requesting correspondent:A very readable, up to date book: Big Data: A Revolution that will transform ... by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 24, 2013 at 08:01 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

The Entrepreneurial State

Schumpeter: The entrepreneurial state in System Growth Consulting" ... Advanced economies have become near-obsessed with stimulating innovation in their economies... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 24, 2013 at 07:54 PM

From Writing

Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js, JavaScript, and Socket.io

The Play Framework takes a functional programming approach to stream processing (e.g. Comet, chunked responses, WebSockets) by using abstractions called Iteratees... Yevgeniy Brikman
From Writing | November 24, 2013 at 07:16 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Wonderlabs

Happened to be in an Apple Store today that was packed with people and it seems as many consultants. This is a growing development. In CWorld:Google wants youComputerworld... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 24, 2013 at 02:04 PM

From Putting People First

[Book] Public and Collaborative

Public and Collaborative Exploring the intersection of design, social innovation and public policy Ezio Manzini and Eduardo Staszowski (Editors) New York, September... Experientia
From Putting People First | November 24, 2013 at 10:29 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Examining SAP's Lumira

During the early phases of Data Visualization we took a look at a number of solutions. SAP was the ERP solution for the enterprise, so we looked at their Business... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 24, 2013 at 10:14 AM

From Putting People First

Bruce Sterling on the value of design fiction (and some example videos)

Bruce Sterling’s Wired UK article on the value of design fiction is very much worth a read, as it defines the field so well: “A formal definition exists: “Design... Experientia
From Putting People First | November 24, 2013 at 08:50 AM

From Putting People First

An ethnographic study of UK policy making

Professor Alex Stevens of the University of Kent, did quite an unusual ethnographic study – focused on understanding how UK civil servants use evidence in policy... Experientia
From Putting People First | November 24, 2013 at 04:56 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

McDs 3D Printing in Store

McDonalds Doing 3D Printing in its stores? " ... Fast food chain is also mulling tablets and touchscreen ordering kiosks FAST FOOD CHAIN McDonalds has saidSpeaking... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 23, 2013 at 03:23 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of the Workplace

An ethnographers look: We did a similar investigation. Video. " ... What will the workplace of the future look like? Will it even exist as a physical space?... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 23, 2013 at 10:58 AM

From Putting People First

The future of the workplace: through an ethnographer’s eyes

What will the workplace of the future look like? Will it even exist as a physical space? Ever since networked computers first became widespread the idea of the... Experientia
From Putting People First | November 23, 2013 at 10:08 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Gathering and Sharing

A very basic but useful idea. " ...Information technology security, big data analysis and interoperability are three of the hottest topics today, particularly... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 23, 2013 at 07:25 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Postmaster Shipping API

Nice to see this development for a government service that is often seen as behind the times. In TechCrunch. Supply chain activities continue to be aided by analytics... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | November 23, 2013 at 07:10 AM

From Computer Science Teachers Association

Getting the Most from Conferences

As you may already know, the 2014 CSTA conference on K-12 computer science education will take place July 14 and 15 at the beautiful Pheasant Run resort in St....
From Computer Science Teachers Association | November 22, 2013 at 08:41 PM