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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 Schneier on Security
Spider Webs Contain Ant Poison
Shichang Zhang, Teck Hui Koh, Wee Khee Seah, Yee Hing Lai, Mark A. Elgar, and Daiqin Li (2011), "A Novel Property of Spider Silk: Chemical Defence Against Ants,"...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
3 surprising facts about the computation of scalar products
The speed of many algorithms depends on how quickly you can multiply matrices or compute distances. In turn, these computations depend on the scalar product. Given...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DemandTec Forecast Lift Patent
I have been following long-time correspondent DemandTec more closely in the past months. Here is another item of interest: " ... The latest patent covers techniques...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Delta Airline Baggage App
I have spent nearly a lifetime business traveling with Delta airlines all over the globe and I have lots of problems with their service. But I see that they have...
From Computational Complexity
The Death of Complexity Classes?
In the 2011 Complexity proceedings there are three papers that analyze complexity classes, Ryan Williams' great paper on ACC, Russell Impagliazzo's paper on average...
From Schneier on Security
The DHS Partners with Major League Soccer to Promote Fear
It seems to be harder and harder to keep people scared: The Department
From Wild WebMink
Let The Bible Go Free!
News emerged Friday that the British government intends to send a copy of the Bible (along with some immortal words penned by Michael Gove) to every school in the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 November 2011
Last week was a quiet one for me. Thanksgiving holiday in the US meant I didn’t spend as much time on the Internet as usual. Also a lot less blogging and emailThe...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Slides and Summaries
I’ve posted slides and summaries for all ten CIKM 2011 Industry Event presentations: Stephen Robertson (Microsoft Research): Why Recall Matters John Giannandrea...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Ilya Segalovich on Improving Search Quality at Yandex
This post is last in a series summarizing the presentations at
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Paper on Text Analytics
A good complimentary SAS white paper on the uses of text analytics. Does require registration:" ... Discover how to maximize the value of information within large...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Vanja Josifovski on Toward Deep Understanding of User Behavior on the Web
This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tips for Google Search
We have all done lots of Google searches. Yet we do not know all the possibilities of search. Here an outline in infographic form that outlines all the basics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and Grabble
Wal-Mart recently acquired the Australian POS technology company Grabble, Then added it to its Wal-Mart Labs group. Another indication of the retail giant'sin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Mall Cellphones
An approach I am well aware of, shoppers are informed of it happening, and in general does not personally identify anyone. The data is precious to understand shopper...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Partial History Knowledge Navigation
Long-time inspiration David Sibbet posts about how Alan Kay and others inspired the iPad and points to a number of future looking Apple publications that I remember...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Currency: Bitcoin
In Wired: The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin. A detailed history of this digital currency concept. An interesting but sometimes mysterious idea, that I thought was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consensus Point Prediction Markets
Robin Hanson's Prediction markets blog. He has a post on the GE Healthymagination Challenge crowdsourcing effort. Plus lots more of interest that is worth following...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson