Wired article worth the read: Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer on Way to Chess World Record There are several Network Age themes of note in this one article. Consider: – Education has fundamentally changed. Immersion is emerging as a best practice. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …