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Site update: New website skin, responsive cross-platform design
We’re experimenting with a new skin and functionality on our corporate website. This version has HTML5 sliders. It has a single unified responsive theme across mobile and desktop. (For curious, this is what the mobile version of our old site looked like. Also not bad. But it meant desktop and mobile users had a different view of the site, depending on platform. And this also created the need for two separate sets of page caches, among a number of other additional complexities. Our old mobile site already had sliders, but our desktop version didn’t.) Shown here is the iOS iPhone view in Safari. It formats as a single long column due to responsive design. Desktop users see the same site, but as multiple columns. There is also an new Instagram widget. (Our Instagram feed is one of our most popular social media feeds. We often receive hundreds of likes on a single day.… Read the restRay Kurzweil Ted Videos on Dinosaur Extinctions
Our of our most popular posts have touched on Ray Kurzweil themes of the Singularity as well as Ray Kurzweil’s decades-old ideas on wearables that appear to have inspired Google Glass. We noticed he’s done at least one additional Ted Talk since we ran our articles. (Oh. We needed a photo for an earlier version this, so we did this glitch art of the earlier Singularity-themed photo:) Kurzweil had quite a career. After coming to national prominence at an early age on a national quiz show for his computer-generated music (in the old Black & White mainframe days), he invented a reading machine for the blind (and OCR and speech synthesis in the process). He went on to start a eponymous music synthesizer company (one of many successful companies he’s founded). Recently he founded Singularity University and did a stint at Google working on artificial intelligence. The predictions in his best-selling books and videos, based on Moore’s law, have been eerily accurate.… Read the rest1853 Close-up of Babbage’s 19th-century early mechanical computer
Photo post: 1853 Close-up of Babbage’s difference engine, a 19th-century early mechanical computer. This was an earlier version of the analytic engine that Ada Lovelace from our previous posts programmed. Later versions of these massive machines were used to compute, among other things, error-free navigation tables. There is thus a clear line between early computers and our earlier photos on astrolabe, Gutenberg, printing, and the conquistadors. Inexpensive navigational tables were a killer app for the early printing presses. It is not coincidental that the voyages of discovery happened soon after the invention of inexpensive printing. Another chapter in the of story of data. Comments may link to a version of this post that originally appeared on our Instagram account. Instagram likes: (more…)… Read the restTed Talks on IBM Watson & Bayes’ rule in evolution
Some of our most read articles have been on IBM Watson, including suggestions & possible alternatives. We’ve pushed IBM several times to come up with better demos for Watson in a business context. This author went to a demonstration by IBM of Watson in August 2014, an witnessed an overglorified AltaVista demonstrated by an engineer. (AltaVista was the dominant Internet search engine prior to Google. Both Google and AltaVista can handle natural language question-like syntax in search queries, although users tend not to use since it just adds boilerplate text. Similar to AltaVista two decades ago, this Watson demonstration would some respond to questions by coming up with partially-related excerpts from various web pages from a small medical database on the web. It had difficultly understanding many simple questions, and the clips selected weren’t always the most appropriate responses. It didn’t look like this thing was a Jeopardy! champion. As the engineer was told, this is bleeding-edge technology; if you want to sell it to businesses, you need to make the case.… Read the restRecent Posts
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