There’s a good article on Read/WriteWeb about Numenta, a layered approach to artificial intelligence called Hierarchical Temporal Memory. From the article:
Similar to the neural networks, HTM does not have any prewired classification of the world. Instead, HTM accepts a sequence of spacio-temporal inputs and ‘learns’ the patterns in the input stream. [...]
A bloody sequel to the excellent Danny Boyle film, this time with too many helicopters and explosions, and apparently focusing more on shoot-the-crazies than character drama. Why the hell can’t they leave well enough alone?
Here’s something I didn’t know: Paypal runs its servers on Linux.
PayPal runs thousands of Linux-based, single-rack-unit servers, which host the company’s Web-presentation layer, middleware and user interface. Thompson says he quickly saw the economic, operational and development advantages of open source and Linux technology. He now sees no other way to [...]
Jon Stewart from the Daily Show exposes John Bolton, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, for a historically-ignorant gasbag.
Bonus! You get to find out how a President is only supposed to act for the people who voted for him.
Over a month has passed since my post about my Parallels and CentOs experience, where I mentioned that it was working rather well, and I would like to comment a bit more about it.
First of, pretty much everything I said on that post still holds: Parallels is convenient and quick to set up. Unfortunately, [...]
For those of us who would like to live forever, here’s a new interesting news: watermelon can act as an immunity booster.
In addition to containing plentiful amounts of the health-promoting antioxidant lycopene, watermelon is an excellent source of the amino acid citrulline.
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The human [...]
The latest version of TrueCrypt, a free and open source tool for securing your data from thiefs, government officials, little brothers and other crooks, has been released. With your information being snooped on by more people every day, this might be a good time to start learning the ropes.
It’s free, fast and [...]
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before, but I have an iRobot Roomba Discovery. It’s an amazingly useful thing, and overall cheaper than maintaining a maid long term (even more if you consider ancillary costs in a socialist country).
But I’m not only in love with the little robot beastie that cleans our [...]
Finally, a legal decision in the United Stated I’m happy about.
John Coffin won’t spend any more time in jail for beating up two sheriff’s deputies inside his house, striking one in the head with a Taser gun he took from the other.
Circuit Judge Rick De Furia said at Coffin’s trial Tuesday that he doesn’t condone [...]
… at least not in the U.K. No sireee, there it’s kids with clubs beating other kids to death. Lord of the Flies, London-style.
Witnesses say that teenage girls egged on the attack with shouts of “Kill him, kill him� before the victim, named last night as Kodjo Yenga, was [...]