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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Posts 16 May 2011
Computer Science teacher Pat Yongpradit seems to be everywhere on the educational blogosphere lately. I posted about his 5-6 week XNA course curriculum last week...
From Wild WebMink
? Speaking at OSBC
If you’re at the Open Source Business Conference, OSBC, in San Francisco today and tomorrow, you have three opportunities to hear me speak (or three sessions to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoomable Sky Survey
A very impressive zoomable sky survey. Will this mean that ultimately we will not care if the sky is hopelessly washed out by light? I hope not. " ... What do...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on Big Data and Analytics
Mark Montgomery of KYield sends this along, Yes, lots of interesting statistics. He writes: This needed to be done by someone and they did a good job --comprehensive...
From The Noisy Channel
In Search Of Structure
A couple of weeks ago, I participated in a summit that Greylock Partners organized for its portfolio companies at LinkedIn to discuss the power of data. Invited...
From Putting People First
UX Lx, a user experience conference in Lisbon
Jeroen van Geel and Vicky Teinaki report on Johnny Holland on UX Lx, the international user experience conference that took place in Lisbon, Portugal, May 11-13...
From Putting People First
The kitchen-table industrialists
My favourite New York Times writer Anand Giridharadas delved into the topic of “making stuff” in this week’s Magazine. “The American romance with making actual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Textbooks Flunk a Test?
In Nicholas Carr's Roughtype blog, a look at early experiments with e-textbooks. Does not look good, but again, with many adjustments, likely inevitable:" ... But...
From Putting People First
Cognitive styles
UX designer Tyler Tate explores on Johnny Holland the attitudes, preferences and habitual strategies that determine how people process information. “We pour over...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Shopping
I thought these numbers were high, and it is pointed out that those doing the survey have a vested interest in high results ... yet I still think this is whereTwo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brands and Startups
Former colleague Dave Knox posts about how brands can work with startups. " ... I see startups as the canary in the marketing coal mine
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Returning Data From A Second Form
The other day I received a query about using second forms in Visual Basic. I found a link to some examples and passed it along but it left me unsettled. The teacher...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-14
Conway's Game of Life in one line of APL This is a really good introduction to the mind-numbing complexity that is APL. It's not just the terse, obscure syntax;...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Outage Implications
In ZDNet: The Google outage makes a case against a cloud only strategy. The outages, though rare, can be devastating to business. There has to be a clear strategy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating the Brain
In the SCiAm: Is simulating the brain too hard for science? Research from the Santa Fe Institute: " ... Supercomputers may soon approach the brain's power, but...
From My Biased Coin
Back to Blogging
I've given my final, and have grades ready to submit. The semester is over! Over the summer I may do some blogging again, as I may have time for it. I was noticing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Scaling MongoDB
I have been spending much time thinking about a future where document-oriented databases are the default. Though they have their problems, I think that they are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics for Research Organizations
Good overview, here primarily dealing with material sciences, but useful for any organization .... such as that delaing with retail environments.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Sous Vide
Yum: We learned to cook squid sous vide at 59