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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Year That Was
That was, that almost wasn’t? src Thomas Lehrer is a mathematician and co-author of the paper, “The Distribution of the Number of Locally Maximal Elements in a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Writing for Computers
I found this Ars Technica series about writing computer programs interesting. In part of my early enterprise career I did this for executives. Explaining to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Active Customers as Key to Growth
Very good HBR piece on the use of social customer connections to build your business. How do you get customer advocacy to work for you? Marketing, Product Development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Think Different in 2013
In Innovation Excellence: A fundamental credo of innovation. A short post that will remind you of its importance.
From Schneier on Security
Terms of Service as a Security Threat
After the Instagram debacle, where it changed its terms of service to give itself greater rights over user photos and reversed itself after a user backlash, it's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 31 December 2012
Well a new year starts tomorrow. Hope it is a great one for all of you. This is the last interesting links list for the year. It’s a pretty short list though. Last...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automatic Monitoring of Surveillance Cameras
Out of work at MIT. A classic problem. Think of this also as an event analysis situation where we are seeking changes and outliers and need to search possibilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connecting Exercise
In GigaOM: MiGym is designed to better connect the health club exerciser and the customer. Quantifying the health club workout. I like the general idea, though...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
2013 CSTA Annual Conference
Are you ready for some great Computer Science and/or IT professional development? Or, do you have some great professional development that you would like to share...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Fallacy of Zero Sum Thinking
Via Mark Perry. Real situations are not zero-sum scenarios, they have unknown contexts and unintended consequences. Always. Be prepared for that.![Onward, Upward, and [In]ward](/system/assets/0002/3440/042516_LinkedIn_Tunkelang.small_square.jpg?1476779511&1461593405)
From The Noisy Channel
Onward, Upward, and [In]ward
It’s that time — the end of another great year. It’s been a phenomenal year for LinkedIn, for my amazing team of data scientists, and for me personally. The end...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back, Looking Forward
This seems to be the time that people look back on the previous year and forward to the new year. It’s almost January which was named after Janus who is often pictured...
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Resolutions and Goals for 2013
It has come time for me to publicly announce my goals for 2013 in order to shame myself into following through.I have the following resolutions.Only acquire things...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Scientific Gifts
And a new place to look for them? src George Dyson is the author of Turing’s Cathedral. This book was newly released when we saw copies at Princeton’s celebration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergent Distribution Models
Viewing distribution models. " ... With direct sales forces under heavy pressure and channel partners becoming scarcer as the reseller market undergoes shifts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Corporate Culture and Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: Culture is essential for innovation to work. The real culture. I have been in organizations where the apparent culture promoted innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Networks
How do you build a better personal business network? From Knowledge at Wharton. Good piece: " ... successful networking goes far beyond handshakes and business...
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Zen Living by the Rules of Soyen Shaku
In thinking about what I want out of 2013, I have become inspired by the rules of Soyen Shaku, the first Zen teacher to come to America. Here they are, fromZen...
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Why I Go Out
My friend Neha sent me this piece Why Go Out, in which Sheila Heti compares going out (to bars, clubs, parties, and the like*) to a cigarette habit, discusses the...
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