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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
Google Book Settlement
One of my favorite and long-time read blogs, the Language Log, has a good piece by Mark Liberman on the Google Book Settlement. There is an ongoing conference at...
From Schneier on Security
The Security Risks of Accepting Free Laptops
Weird: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to figure out who is sending laptop computers to state governors across the U.S., including West Virginia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media as Mass Marketing
Tom Peters posts on Social Media as Mass Marketing ... Not the Future. A critical and historical view of the topic.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Trading compression for speed with vectorization
Bitmap indexes are used by search engines (such as Apache Lucene), they are available in DBMSes such as Oracle and PostgreSQL. They are used in column stores such...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Location-Aware Home Screen on IPhone
It is reported in ReadwriteWeb that Apple is patenting the idea of a location-aware home screen for the IPhone. Imagine a home screen that would show a map, local...
From Apophenia
Vacation, Vacation, Vaaaay-kaaaay-shun! (offline till Sep 8)
This is the time when all of the crazy people run off to the desert to "survive" with tons of art, fake fur, and countless supplies. Burning Man of course. Normally...
From Schneier on Security
Marine Worms with Glowing Bombs
More security stories from the natural world: During chase scenes, movie protagonists often make their getaway by releasing some sort of decoy to cover their escape...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Landmark Contributions by Students in Computer Science
There are many reasons for research funding agencies (DARPA, NSF, etc.) to invest in the education of students. Producing the next generation of innovators is...
From Schneier on Security
Banning Beer Glasses in Pubs
Not beer, just the glasses: The Home Office has commissioned a new design, in an attempt to stop glasses being used as weapons. Official figures show 5,500 people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TV vs Internet Advertising
From Progressive Grocer and GMA, on a new report: ' ... Early results of studies from comScore, in partnership with dunnhumbyUSA, indicate that advertising on the...
From Putting People First
Nokia
Yesterday, Nokia launched Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service enables financial management and payments from a mobile phone – aimed specifically at emerging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source BI Solutions
Mike Cristiani sends along a link to a whitepaper by Tableau Software: factors to consider when evaluating open source bi solutions '... This paper discusses the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Crowdsources Ads
Unliever is going to the public for new ad ideas. ' ... Unilever is offering $10,000 (
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pioneering Study in Neuromarketing
Comments on work by Martin Lindstrom described in his Buylogy book: ' ... A pioneering study on Neuromarketing will change forever the way marketers and advertisers...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Issues Old and New
Monday August 17th was *our* first day officially back with classes starting Thursday and, as usual, the new school year is raising many issues, some new and some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Yale Summer Math Program
The summer math program for Economics Phds at Yale. Nice mix of practical math topics.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
To be smarter, ignore external rewards
Last night, I watched a great talk by Dan Pink
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining the Web for Feelings
In the NYT: Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts. The article is a bit thin, but worth reading. Another favorite topic of mine since the early days of linking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Antivirus Software
Computerworld looks at a number of options. Useful.-
From The Eponymous Pickle