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Teaching artificial intelligences through correlations instead of models

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:21:46 GMT

“We can throw the numbers into the biggest computing clusters the world has ever seen and let statistical algorithms find patterns where science cannot.” More on the topic at Wired.

Link: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php

The Next Slum?

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:48:03 GMT

Another reason McMansionism is simply a bad idea.

Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/subprime

Along the Dystopia Line

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:17:08 GMT

Adam Greenfield on our dystopian future.

Link: http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/along-the-dystopia-line-1-i-am-your-density/

Highways of the Future

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:45:26 GMT

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future Conference at Harvard

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:21:33 GMT

Link: http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurship/conference/

Nostradamus biography

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:59:00 GMT

Quote: “There are two schools of thought on Nostradamus: either he had supernatural powers which enabled him to prophesy the future with uncanny accuracy, or he did for bullshit what Stonehenge did for rocks.”

Link: http://timeqq.blogspot.com/2007/11/nostradamus.html

BumpTop

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:30 GMT

A physics-based desktop GUI

Link: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~anand/big/BumpTop.mov

Former Apple, Microsoft UI designers talk shop

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:22 GMT

”... operating system user interface design is moving away from a windowing system because content consumption is replacing content creation as the primary use for a computer.”

Link: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/49446.html

TV news in a postmodern world

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:33 GMT

Exploring change as the status quo from this point forward in journalism

Link: http://donatacom.com/papers/pomo44.htm