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2011-08-31
2011-08-28
Modern-ism
Source: DisOriention book
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This is the last of a fourteen-part series of posts about ideologies - the "Isms".
The images and texts are taken from the DisOrientation book - How to go to College without losing your mind - web site.
This post series is dedicated to my good friend Miguel Oliveira Panão.
2011-08-26
2011-08-24
2011-08-23
2011-08-21
2011-08-14
2011-08-12
Internet time machine
A team of computer scientists at the Los Alamos Research Library in New Mexico and Old Dominion University (ODU) in Virginia has written a technical specification that embeds the concept of time into Internet applications. The specification is part of the team’s proposed information framework, known as Memento, which creates an application that allows the version control of Web pages, databases and other online information sources.
Source: Government Computer News via ACM Tech News
2011-08-11
Internet's memory effects quantified in computer study
Psychology experiments showed that people presented with difficult questions began to think of computers.
When participants knew that facts would be available on a computer later, they had poor recall of answers but enhanced recall of where they were stored.
The researchers say the internet acts as a "transactive memory" that we depend upon to remember for us.
Lead author Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University said that transactive memory "is an idea that there are external memory sources - really storage places that exist in other people".
Source: BBC News via ACM Tech News
2011-08-10
Using 'cloud' servers to heat homes
Microsoft has published a research paper that proposes installing servers used for cloud computing into homes and businesses, instead of in vast data centers. The idea being, that because such servers generate so much heat, why not use them to heat homes, instead of wasting even more energy by cooling the air in centralized locations.
Source: PhysOrg via ACM Tech News
2011-08-09
The Glorious Folly
The Glorious Folly by Louis de Wohl
This book is a sequel to The Spear and it covers the time span of the life of Saul of Tarsus a.k.a. Saint Paul. Despite this, St. Paul is not the main character in the book, Cassius Longinus is. The book is a good read, but not so good as The Spear .
Sometimes we think if we lived in the time of Jesus it would be so much easier to believe in Him. However, from De Wohls' depiction of the period, it is clear to me that faith and freedom play the same crucial role as today.
This book is a sequel to The Spear and it covers the time span of the life of Saul of Tarsus a.k.a. Saint Paul. Despite this, St. Paul is not the main character in the book, Cassius Longinus is. The book is a good read, but not so good as The Spear .
Sometimes we think if we lived in the time of Jesus it would be so much easier to believe in Him. However, from De Wohls' depiction of the period, it is clear to me that faith and freedom play the same crucial role as today.
Cornell computers spot 'opinion spam'
If you read online reviews before purchasing a product or service, you may not always be reading the truth. Review sites are becoming targets for "opinion spam" -- phony positive reviews created by sellers to help sell their products, or negative reviews meant to downgrade competitors.
The bad news: Human beings are lousy at identifying deceptive reviews. The good news: Cornell researchers are developing computer software that's pretty good at it. In a test on 800 reviews of Chicago hotels, a computer was able to pick out deceptive reviews with almost 90 percent accuracy. In the process, the researchers discovered an intriguing correspondence between the linguistic structure of deceptive reviews and fiction writing.
Source: Cornell News via ACM Tech News
2011-08-08
Robots Threaten Jobs
Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.
From self-service checkout lines at the supermarket to industrial robots armed with saws and taught to carve up animal carcasses in slaughter-houses, these ever-more-intelligent machines are now not just assisting workers but actually kicking them out of their jobs.
Automation isn’t just affecting factory workers, either. Some law firms now use artificial intelligence software to scan and read mountains of legal documents, work that previously was performed by highly paid human lawyers.
Source: The Daily Beast
2011-08-07
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