Watch How the Internet Took Over The World in this Timelapse Map. Does Twitch Plays Pokemon Give You Hope for Humanity? Gigantic Space Battle Breaks Out in EVE Online, Thanks to Unpaid Bill. Is Bitcoin evil or just dumb? The Robots Are Here - POLITICO Magazine. Isaac Asimov, the astonishingly prolific science fiction writer, died in 1992, but he foresaw much about American politics today.
One of his most profound works is the neglected short story “Franchise,” written in 1955, in the days when computers were bulky, room-sized machines powered by vacuum tubes and operated by a high priesthood of punch card-wielding technicians. For a work of fiction, it is stunningly prescient. In Asimov’s tale, set in November 2008, democratic elections have become nearly obsolete. Viral Journalism and the Valley of Ambiguity. How much does search engine optimization play into how effectively a story is picked up virally?
If a story contains rhetoric that is more likely to get passed on, even if it's "important" — famous names, scandal — does that play a role? Take recaps, here and elsewhere: I'm slowly drifting away from them because they seem to be increasingly simple plot recounts that go over the sexy sexiness of sexy sex and the fabulous fabulousness of fabulous fabulousness. Based on reads and short, quipy comments, I'd assume those are more popular than deep-dives that try to answer "so what? " questions. The Ninth Circuit Library. "Citations are the cornerstone upon which judicial opinions and law review articles stand....The ability to check citations and verify that citations to the original sources are accurate is integral to ensuring accurate characterizations of sources and determining where a researcher found information.
However, accurate citations do not always mean that a future researcher will be able to find the exact same information as the original researcher. Citations to disappearing websites cause problems for legal researchers. " Raizel Liebler & June Liebert, Something Rotten in the State of Legal Citation: The Life Span of a United States Supreme Court Citation Containing an Internet Link (1996-2010), 15 YALE J.L. & TECH. 273, 275 (2013), available at The following table lists Ninth Circuit opinions issued from 2008 to the present that cite to Internet addresses (URLs). In Supreme Court Opinions, Web Links to Nowhere. The libraries that governments will burn in the future. Well he better move the thing away from the coast or global warming will make his argument mute.
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Spencer, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, and approved August 27, 2013 (received for review May 9, 2013) Why It's So Hard to Make Friends After College (And What to Do About It) Dunbar's number. Watch 10 seconds of high-frequency stock trading in super slow motion. Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments. <img class="full-width" style="" typeof="foaf:Image" width="1000" height="653" alt="" data-smsrc="<a pearltreesdevid="PTD502" rel="nofollow" href=" class="vglnk"><span pearltreesdevid="PTD503">http</span><span pearltreesdevid="PTD505">://</span><span pearltreesdevid="PTD507">www</span><span pearltreesdevid="PTD509">.
The line between fiction and fic has never been blurrier. When the Silo series first started, the book was free on Amazon.
Since I live in Mexico, when I went to Amazon to download tge free book, I was going to be charged full price. I saw that Hugh had a website, and contact email, and I wrote him telling him both my wife and I would like to read the story, but felt that we were unfairly discriminated against, because of our location. He wrote me back, the NEXT DAY and made me a gift of the first 5 books of the series.
Since my wife and I both are on the same Kindle account, we both read the series, enjoyed them immensely , and bought every book thereafter, including, Dust. TIL EVE Online is the only MMO that features an officially recognised player-elected council that is flown twice a year to Reykjavik to meet with the game developers to discuss the ideas and concerns of the player base. : todayilearned. How the Battle of Asakai Became One of the Largest Space Battles in Video Game History.
I was there.
I was there and it was horrible. The game's developers have taken this unholy, all consuming black nightmare and turned it into a PR triumph, but let me tell you my perspective on Asakai. By the time my fleet, a Goonswarm subcapital reinforcement fleet, arrived, maximum time dilation was already occurring; time was technically being made to pass in this solar system at one tenth the speed of normal time outside the system.
Except all that was doing was alleviating the effect of the soul crushing lag enough to let us experience it fully in all its hellish detail instead of, for example, dumping people out of game or bringing everything to a halt. Time was actually passing hundreds of times slower. How Upvote/Downvote Sites like Reddit Breed Irrational Herd Behavior. What I want are different kinds of up votes and down votes that explain my reasoning more clearly as to why I'm giving said vote.
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I had completely forgotten this book was coming out soon, can't wait to pick it up. I work in IT and have been a "techie" since I was a kid (I'm 27 currently) and all this is beyond interesting. As I point out to my friends, "We went from Zack Morris cell phones when we were kids to phones that fit in your back pocket with room to spare. We went from "oh my god this is the greatest thing ever" (NES) to the soon to be released Occulus Rift. The Cloud Will Expand Human Brain Capacity: Kurzweil. Futurist and author Ray Kurzweil predicts the cloud will eventually do more than store our emails or feed us streaming movies on demand: it’s going to help expand our brain capacity beyond its current limits. In a question-and-answer session following a speech to the DEMO technology conference in Santa Clara, California last week, Kurzweil described the human brain as impressive but limited in its capacity to hold information.
“By the time we’re even 20, we’ve filled it up,” he said, adding that the only way to add information after that point is to “repurpose our neocortex to learn something new.” (Computerworld has posted up the full video of the talk.) The solution to overcoming the brain’s limitations, he added, involves “basically expanding our brains into the cloud.” Kurzweil is one of the more prominent advocates of the technological Singularity, or the idea that computers will become super-intelligent and self-replicating, essentially reducing human progress to a sideshow. Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market. Are TIME's Person of the Year.
The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men. " He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year. Khan Academy. I am Anant Agarwal, President of edX and former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Ask Me Anything! : science. Google Joins Top Universities in Quest to Fulfill Potential of Online Education. With online education, you don’t have to go to MIT to learn from one of MIT’s top professors. You don’t have to spend six figures or four years to get knowledge applicable to the career of your choosing. Education can continue all your life, if you like. The idea is full of potential. MOOC Brigade: Will Massive, Open Online Courses Revolutionize Higher Education?
Sugata Mitra's new experiments in self-teaching. Digital Aristotle: Thoughts on the Future of Education. Knewton Investors. "Is This You?" - lifelogging, privacy and scandal by Tom Scott at Electromagnetic Field 2012.
A Flash Mob Gone Wrong – Ignite Talk by Tom Scott. How the Boston Marathon tragedy revealed the best side of social media. Memoto Lifelogging Camera by Memoto. Thank you all backers! Thanks to you, the Memoto Lifelogging Camera was successfully funded! This Kickstarter page will be frozen on November 30, 2012. Real-Time Language Translation With UK Developer’s Own Google-esque Augmented Reality Glasses. Real-time translation between an English and Spanish speaker is possible with DIY augmented reality glasses. Microsoft's Real-Time Translation Software Converts English to Chinese—and Preserves the Sound of Your Voice. It could be the next best thing to learning a new language.
Microsoft researchers have demonstrated software that translates spoken English into spoken Chinese almost instantly, while preserving the unique cadence of the speaker’s voice—a trick that could make conversation more effective and personal. The first public demonstration was made by Rick Rashid, Microsoft’s chief research officer, on October 25 at an event in Tianjin, China. “I’m speaking in English and you’ll hear my words in Chinese in my own voice,” Rashid told the audience. The system works by recognizing a person’s words, quickly converting the text into properly ordered Chinese sentences, and then handing those over to speech synthesis software that has been trained to replicate the speaker’s voice.