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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Country Favorability Ratings
Gallup has published a favorability rating of countries to people in the US. Both the methods used and the graphics are interesting. Trends of the rating over...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Word Cloud for this Blog
I created a wordcloud using Wordle, using the RSS feed for this blog. Scanning this, it is clear that it is using only a small subset of recent words in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Word Clouds
A favorite topic of mine, pictures that represent compact, useful and easily scannable visualizations of real data. Here Doug Lautzenheiserdiscusses the Wordle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modernist Cuisine
Not sure how long this link will work, but a foodie friend sends me the article from the WSJ: The Game-Changing Cookbook: Nathan Myhrvold's 2,400-page 'Modernist...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Postdocs in Computing
The CRA website has an interesting white paper on the role of postdocs in computer science.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail is Ready for Mobile
Good piece with statistics in E-Commerce Times. Useful statistics. If you give the shopper the right kind of choices and offers , at the right time and place,...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-12
Double Bug: Oracle Kept OpenJDK In The Dark Great explanation from Mark Wielaard of how the effectiveness of the OpenJDK community in dealing with the Double security...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Pheromone
A newly discovered female squid pheromone sparks aggression in male squids. Article.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
DC ACM Chapter Co-Hosts Discussion on Digital Government
On February 17th, the D.C. Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery an the New America Foundation will co-host a panel discussion, "The Open Government...
From Schneier on Security
Julian Sanchez on Balancing Privacy and Security
From a blog post: In my own area of study, the familiar trope of "balancing privacy and security" is a source of constant frustration to privacy advocates, because...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rhymes for Our Times
I see that former P&G colleague and renowned advertising exec Norm Levy has set up a blog: Rhymes4ourtimes in conjunction with his book: Rhymes for Or Times: Skews...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Market Research Scanning App
An interesting and natural development. An App by Kinesis Survey Technologies that does both barcode scanning and supports market research functions. Includes...
From Wild WebMink
? Is LibreOffice Open-By-Rule?
Charles-H Schulz from The Document Foundation submitted the data for a benchmark evaluation of LibreOffice. I have read his evaluations and added scores, giving...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Taking Scientific Publishing to the Next Level
Scientific publishing is wasteful. We spend much time perfecting irrelevant papers to get them through peer review. Meanwhile, important papers—that thousands of...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Processing in Eclipse
After having to set up a Processing project in Eclipse after a long break from anything related to it, I decided to capture my notes to refer to later. I addedProcessing...
From Computational Complexity
PROS and CONS of being on a Program Committee
What are the PROS and CONS of being on a program committee? PRO: Looks good on your resume. Is this true at your school? This PRO may be more relevant forunturned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Search Engine Trust
How much can you trust the output of a search engine? I can tell you that many people in the enterprise do, but not always to their advantage. Computerworld explores...
From The Eponymous Pickle