Bio Hack
After the winter holidays in 2012 I played CMU’s Eterna for several weeks, often for hours at a stretch. My addiction lasted about 6 weeks or so, as I recall. Eterna isn’t a game, really, although the ranking system did …
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When Will AI Be Created?
I found this article from the good folks at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute to be a good read. To save you the trouble, the bottom line is, nobody knows. Some folks say maybe by 2040. Others, sooner (Kurzweil), like …
Quantum Hack
NY Time Blog headline this morning: Google Buys a Quantum Computer Teaming with NASA, they’re forming the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QAIL) to focus on machine learning. Better search will come, one supposes. I missed the announcement of the first …
Foundation and Empire
Is it possible to predict global conflict? For those sired on Asimov’s work, the title of this post will be familiar. You may recall psychohistory, Isaac’s early-50s term for the mathematical mashup of history, sociology, and statistics used to make …
Brain Jack
“I can imagine a cognitive prosthesis–some digital mnemonic device that extends my personal storage capacity in some way, but accessed directly via my own thoughts, as if it were an integral part of my own cognitive system.” — The Artisan …
Love and Money and in an Indeterminate Age
Peter Thiel’s Strategy Quadrant PayPal founder Peter Thiel is obviously a prescient individual with ample cognitive gifts. You should take the time to view his session at SXSW this year: You are Not a Lottery Ticket The future has always …
Microsoft Puts Free Portable WiFi In Forbes Magazine Print Issues
Perhaps one day we will wake up to find that over night a next-generation network access devices were dropped from above, like particles of fertilizer sprayed by crop dusters over corn fields. Who said print was dead? 🙂 I wonder …
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Shame.css
I laughed out loud when I read Harry Roberts’ blog touting shame.css — but as I think about it, he may be onto something. In the spirit of Convention Over Configuration, why not cloister hacks whenever possible? Wouldn’t doing so …
Data Science in the Facebook World
If you’re a geek and haven’t yet read Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science think of this as a goad — at least buy the tome. The basic premise is simple — specifically, that those classes of simple programs that …
Dude, Who Printed My Car?
Wow. A car, printed via 3-D printing technology, making the NY to SF sojourn on 10 gallons of gas! Today’s article on Wired has got to be a mind blowing, hope radiating, consciousness expanding trip!