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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Quadrants for visualizing classifications
I saw an article describing how the writer uses quadrants to make decision about technology.A quadrant takes two binary categories and allows you to combine them into a more nuanced layout for decisions and classification.The example in the article is a way to look at...
Summary of “What History Tells Us About the Accelerating AI Revolution”
An op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal outlined the challenges of adapting to the proliferation of artificial intelligence in the workplace.Main point: "As the Covid-19 pandemic looks to likely accelerate the rate and pace of technological change, what can...
Gene Surgery Creates First Monkeys Modified with Precision Genome Editing
Via MIT Technology Review: The fact that genome editing worked to create modified monkeys suggests it might also work to create genetically modified humans. Crispr is already used to modify human cells grown in labs, but it has not yet been tested on human embryos or...
The Philippines After Typhoon Haiyan: Fastest Q4 GDP Growth In Asia After China
Via International Business Times: In the fourth quarter of 2013, GDP grew 6.5 percent, and the Philippines remains the fastest-growing economy in Asia after China.… Even though Typhoon Haiyan caused devastating damage and left at least 6,200 people dead, the economy...
The Philippines After Typhoon Haiyan: Fastest Q4 GDP Growth In Asia After China
Via International Business Times: In the fourth quarter of 2013, GDP grew 6.5 percent, and the Philippines remains the fastest-growing economy in Asia after China.… Even though Typhoon Haiyan caused devastating damage and left at least 6,200 people dead, the economy...
Double Telepresence Robot
Via Business Insider: Double allows an unparalleled degree of flexibility when it comes to needing to be places. I loved working from my couch and desk at home while remotely wheeling a robot around the BI office, some ten miles away. I was attending Manhattan...
Double Telepresence Robot
Via Business Insider: Double allows an unparalleled degree of flexibility when it comes to needing to be places. I loved working from my couch and desk at home while remotely wheeling a robot around the BI office, some ten miles away. I was attending Manhattan...
All drones, all the time
Via Business Insider: Pater believes that as drones become increasingly common, people should have the tools to identify them at a moment's notice. The ability to recognize a drone by their silhouette, Pater thinks, is much like our ancestors' ability to spot...