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Are We Really Conscious?
It sure seems like it. But brain science suggests we’re not.
nytimes.com
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11 years ago
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Comedy Clubs Are Using Facial Recognition Software So They Can Charge Per Laugh
Taking all of the fun out of comedy
time.com
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11 years ago
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GT to cut jobs, wind down sapphire plant; takes aim at Apple
(Reuters) - GT Advanced Technologies Inc <GTAT.O> said it will cut 890 jobs, close an Arizona plant expected to make scratch-resistant screens for Apple Inc <AAPL.O>, and suggested it could
reuters.com
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11 years ago
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What Happens When Second Graders Are Treated to a Seven-Course, $220 Tasting Meal
Students from P.S. 295 in Brooklyn learn the fine points of French cuisine at one of New York’s poshest restaurants.
nytimes.com
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11 years ago
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HackerRank is growing at 100% Q-o-Q; be the first PM at our MV office | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
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11 years ago
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Things I Won't Work With: Peroxide Peroxides. In the Pipeline:
pipeline.corante.com
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11 years ago
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Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety and Must Be Replaced Now
Let's make "10 not 12!" a new mantra for saving our cities and towns.
citylab.com
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11 years ago
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Judge Rejects Defense That FBI Illegally Hacked Silk Road—On a Technicality | WIRED
The judge argues that even if the FBI did hack the Silk Road server, Ross Ulbricht hadn't sufficiently demonstrated that it belonged to him, and thus can't claim that his privacy rights were violated by its search.
wired.com
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11 years ago
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Hz #19 - "How the Technological Design of Facebook Homogenizes Identity and Limits Personal Representation"
hz-journal.org
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11 years ago
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Brutal Honesty
brutalhonesty.io
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11 years ago
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Behind League of Legends, E-Sports’s Main Attraction
Riot Games, creator of the wildly popular League of Legends, says it puts players’ enjoyment above the need to produce profits. And that may be the key to the game’s success.
nytimes.com
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11 years ago
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Filtergraph
Filtergraph is a web-based service for creating interactive data visualization portals.
filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu
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11 years ago
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Human vs. Squirrel: The Battle of Wits Is On - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
“Hey, thanks for the new feeder. Now I can pretend I’m super-squirrel while I eat!”IanC66 via Shutterstock Feed the birds, they…
nautil.us
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11 years ago
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The Toughest Adversity I've Ever Faced
This period began when my successful business (discussed here) failed overnight. After I discovered our accounts were closed, I checked if the dupe method still worked. To my surprise, it did! So I...
scottbarbian.com
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11 years ago
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cognitect-labs/transducers-js
transducers-js - Transducers for JavaScript
github.com
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11 years ago
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How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? - Quora
Answer 1 of 4: The primary technology that a military aircraft uses to lock and track an enemy aircraft is its onboard radar. Aircraft radars typically have ...
quora.com
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11 years ago
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Cognitect Labs
Cognitect Labs
cognitect-labs.github.io
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11 years ago
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Designing For Failure
A small bit of hit-and-run damage on my car resulted in a surprising example of designing for failure. Application developers are often focused on optimizing the delightful experiences. Designing for failure seems like a very different mental approach.
alexvollmer.com
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11 years ago
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Threadable Pro: Private groups and access controls
At the core of any successful team that does anything is communication. You might even say communication is what defines a team in the first place. Imagine a sports team with no communication: it's...
blog.threadable.com
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11 years ago
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ArmenAg/Improvisation
Improvisation - A program that learns music structure of given midi files and able to generate new melodies by judmental of other compositions. E.g. generate melody in style of Armstrong as negatively judged by Eminem and positively by Bach.
github.com
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11 years ago
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