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Real Time Robotic (Agent) Game
From The Eponymous Pickle

Real Time Robotic (Agent) Game

In IEEE Spectrum: An intriguing view of upcoming robotics games and AI.  Will this result in game style interaction with the real world?  It could be described"...

Cyber Security from Recorded Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cyber Security from Recorded Future

Have presented Recorded Future a number of times as a forward looking unstructured analysis method.  Nor they announced something new, using their unique methods...

Staying sharp requires “intellectual gardening”
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Staying sharp requires “intellectual gardening”

Gardening requires consistency. A beautiful garden is unstable. Some plants want to expand their reach and kill out the competition. Some plants are simply out...

The culture of borrowing and debt: an ethnographic approach
From Putting People First

The culture of borrowing and debt: an ethnographic approach

What are people’s philosophy and attitudes toward loans and debt? And how financial marketers can respond to their basic emotional needs in the lending process?...

MAD in Cyberspace
From Schneier on Security

MAD in Cyberspace

Ron Beckstrom gives a talk (video and transcript) about "Mutually Assured Destruction," "Mutually Assured Disruption," and "Mutually Assured Dependence."

Understanding human behaviour: taking a more complex approach
From Putting People First

Understanding human behaviour: taking a more complex approach

Large-scale surveys are useful but if we are serious about changing behaviours, we must use every tool to understand human complexity, writes Steven Johnson in...

Quick links
From Geeking with Greg

Quick links

What has caught my attention lately: Lots of frequently updated, high resolution satellite images + automated object detection at massive scale = crazy cool and...

MariaDB Progress
From Wild WebMink

MariaDB Progress

I just posted a State Of The Sea Lion report on the MariaDB blog detailing where we have reached with implementing a community-centric approach for the MariaDB...

Spear Phishing Attack Against the <cite>Financial Times</cite>
From Schneier on Security

Spear Phishing Attack Against the Financial Times

Interesting story with a lot of details.

From Computational Complexity

Quantum Tecniques/Gen Functions- don't be afraid of new techniques

Ronald de Wolf gave a GREAT talk at CCC on the uses of Quantum techniques to Classical Problems. He made the analogy of using the Prob Method to prove non-prob...

Do Data Scientists Scale?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Do Data Scientists Scale?

Andrew Brust on the nature of data scientists and the scalability of what they do, or claim to do.  I agree with many of the points made.   I will summarize my...

Batch Mode Productivity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Batch Mode Productivity

Our wealth of digital tools allow a broad range of time sharing to perform tasks.   This can be selectively useful, but is clearly not the way to get real things...

Talking Design with Dan Hill
From Putting People First

Talking Design with Dan Hill

We are pleased to invite you to the second in the “Talking Design” lecture series with Dan Hill, CEO of Fabrica. On Thursday July 4th, designer and urbanist Dan...

Advice from a former Apple director who coined the term ‘user experience’
From Putting People First

Advice from a former Apple director who coined the term ‘user experience’

Having worked on Apple’s User Interface Technologies and introducing the term “user experience” to company execs in the early 90s, Mitch Stein knows a thing or...

Brian David Johnson on being more human
From Putting People First

Brian David Johnson on being more human

Intel’s resident futurist reflects on how the steampunk culture offers clues to building a better tomorrow. “Steampunk reveals three relationships that people want...

Thirteen tenets of user experience
From Putting People First

Thirteen tenets of user experience

Robert Hoekman Jr. provides his list of 13 beliefs on the value of user experience strategy, design, and designers, “one for every year [he has] been in the web...

The Future of Satellite Surveillance
From Schneier on Security

The Future of Satellite Surveillance

Pretty scary -- and cool. Remember, it's not any one thing that's worrisome; it's everything together.

Interesting Links 24 June 2013
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 24 June 2013

Second year in a row I am not at ISTE this week. I understand that there are twice as many computer science sessions this year than last. That’s a good thing and...

The Nature of the Data Scientist
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Nature of the Data Scientist

Stephen Few writes  about the nature of the term 'data scientist'.  I personally don't like the term,  I prefer the term 'analyst', which has fewer implications...

Google Now Topics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Now Topics

A piece on the access of topics in the intelligent assistant Google Now.  Intrguing, but it did give me what I expected when I accessed the topics page.  Interesting...
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