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Exciting times for home automation: using light to alter moods
A number of companies have also done scientific studies showing that the color of light from multi-colored LED smartbulbs can impact things such as mood and reduce the impact of jet lag. The sun’s light naturally changes color throughout the course of the day, and human biology appears to take cues from that. In addition to saving a lot of energy compared with traditional or fluorescent bulbs, you can do a lot of other color things with multicolored smartbulbs. Some folks have them automatically flash purple to remind children of their bedtime. Smarthome bulbs should not, however, be seen as panacea. Many of these devices are first generation. Most current LEDs don’t emit in all the wavelengths that human eyes are known to detect (infrared wavelengths, used for circadian rhythms, is missing from most of these systems). Nor are these devices marketed (or intended) to treat medical conditions. But if you’re a technophile, an environmentalist interested in greener bulbs, or just like the idea of seeing what light can do, you may want to look into new gadgets.… Read the restProject management and software engineering analytics
Have you ever wondered, “how many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?” This post will give you the predictive analytics tools to finally answer that age-old question. Today we look at using software engineering analytics to help project managers and software engineering managers do resource planning. This is part of our popular Ask Acculation series; scroll down to find out how to get your analytics or start-up questions answered here. We originally answered this question on a Q&A site. Where can I learn best practices for Scrum? The answer depends on the specific situation. Many advocates of Agile insist that it can only be done properly if engineers and your internal product experts are the same location, or at least in the same time zone. The original question asked about “Scrum” but didn’t specify whether Agile was intended or not. Proper use of the term “Scrum” always requires Agile, but in practice project managers will use the term “Scrum” with what are, in fact, very non-Agile methodologies.… Read the rest14 Surprising Ways Miley Cyrus is like SQL Server Hadoop Analytics
14 Ways Miley Cyrus is like SQL Server Hadoop Analytics?!?! Yup, you read that article title right. We’ve done past articles on how computers were now writing newspaper articles automatically. When we learned there was software to “auto-generate” blog content, we were exhilarated. We can just let software write this blog and hit the beach! Unfortunately, the software is only first-generation. It doesn’t actually write the blog article, just suggests a title. So, we asked this first-generation system for a computer-generated blog title for this article about Microsoft’s continuing embrace-and-extend gambit for generating Microsoft SQL Server licensing fees from Hadoop users. This is what the all-knowing automatic blog content generator came up with for a title. Apparently, the software has a thing for Miley Cyrus. You’re probably thinking, Miley Cyrus doesn’t seem to have a whole lot in common with SQL Server Hadoop Analytics. So… is it even possible for us or anyone to come up with … count ’em ….… Read the restGoogle Glass: Confessions of a New Cyborg
Google Glass, Cyborgs, and the Singularity Does Google Glass turn you into an awesome Terminator-like Cyborg with a web browser inside of your brain? Or does it just frighten the horses? Will you become a so-called “Glasshole”? Is the software still limited and flawed? Or is the built-in Chrome browser all the Cyborg software you need? In this article, we take a look at some of the pluses and minuses of Glass. #Glass turns you into an awesome Cyborg with an in-brain browser? #throughglass Click To Tweet Frequent readers of this blog will note our fascination with theory of the Singularity, as exemplified in Ray Kurzweil’s series of books. (We’ll note that the forthcoming science-fiction movie Transcendence is one way the Singularity might play out. That is, if it actually happens in the first place.) At least two decades ago, Kurzweil and others predicted Google Glass (“special glasses” as Kurzweil called them) would hit the market right about now.… Read the restRecent Posts
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