Use of computers for artificial intelligence. What does this say about the gap between humans and machines?
Thursday 16 December 2010
IBM's Watson to appear on Jeopardy, confirms even supercomputers are dumbing down | Crave | CNET UK
IBM's Watson to appear on Jeopardy, confirms even supercomputers are dumbing down | Crave | CNET UK
Sunday 12 December 2010
Google Shows Reading Levels for Search Results
Check out this article I found:
Google Shows Reading Levels for Search Results
Google Operating System
Google's advanced search page has a new feature that lets you restrict results to a certain reading level. You can choose from showing basic results, intermediate results, advanced results or annotating the results with reading levels."Sometimes you may want to limit your search results to a specifi…
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-shows-reading-levels-for-search.html
Tuesday 7 December 2010
DEADLINE FOR THE EBOOK
You will be expected to work on your ebook for completion on the Friday 22/1/11 of the 3rd week back in January.
No excuses about mocks etc, you should be managing your homework time between now and then in order to meet this deadline.
We will be setting this as a homework task and monitoring your performance from next week onwards. Next week will be an Ebook week so make sure you are ready to work on it all next week, bring in relevant pictures/videos/mp3s/animations and text research.
No excuses about mocks etc, you should be managing your homework time between now and then in order to meet this deadline.
We will be setting this as a homework task and monitoring your performance from next week onwards. Next week will be an Ebook week so make sure you are ready to work on it all next week, bring in relevant pictures/videos/mp3s/animations and text research.
Sunday 5 December 2010
NetNewsWire (05/12/2010 22:29)
Man says Droid exploded mid phone call
An incendiary conversation
A Texas man says he had to get four stitches in his ear after a spanking new Droid 2 smartphone exploded while he was in mid conversation.…
An incendiary conversation
A Texas man says he had to get four stitches in his ear after a spanking new Droid 2 smartphone exploded while he was in mid conversation.…
A New Meaning to the word ‘iLife’
Coach Eric Cooper Sr. never thought he would need to save one of his player’s lives, nor did he think an iPhone app would assist him in doing so.
The LA Times reported that Xavier Jones, a player on Coach Cooper’s basketball team, collapsed during practice after his heart stopped beating from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart muscle becomes hardened, making it more difficult for it to pump blood. Coach Cooper and an assistant coach rushed out to see what the problem was. After checking and not detecting a heartbeat, Cooper pulled out his iPhone and launched Phone Aid, which gave them detailed instructions on how to perform CPR to get his heart started again. Read More
Wednesday 1 December 2010
WIKILEAKS GUARDIAN ANALYSIS OF THE DATA
Very interesting analysis.
What does this mean for national security?
How should government run when we can read these sort of leaks easily?
Is this good or bad for society to know this government info.
Amazon knows what you want before you do
See this video and consider the implications for you and also for bricks and mortar stores (normal stores)
Think about what redecorate the store for every customer means - can normal high st stores complete? How would they complete ?They become niche/specialist.
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