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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
How to thrive in the age of robotsVia Robotics Industry Association, how collaborative robots are part of the workplace. When compliance in areas like safety becomes a focus, that means the technology has become more established. How can people thrive?Key point: "As a...
Progress, decline, and the gospelVia Arts and Letters Daily, a review of Stephen B. Smith's Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow(hardcover, Kindle) that makes for an interesting read. Does modernity really afflict...
The spectrum of cultures
Via Business Insider: The point of all of this analysis is to understand how to interact with people from different cultures, a subject in which Richard Lewis Communications provides coaching and consultation. "By focusing on the cultural roots of national behavior,...
The Steely, Headless King of Texas Hold ’Em – NYTimes.com
Via NY Times: The machines, called Texas Hold ‘Em Heads Up Poker, play the limit version of the popular game so well that they can be counted on to beat poker-playing customers of most any skill level. Gamblers might win a given hand out of sheer luck, but over an...
The Steely, Headless King of Texas Hold ’Em – NYTimes.com
Via NY Times: The machines, called Texas Hold ‘Em Heads Up Poker, play the limit version of the popular game so well that they can be counted on to beat poker-playing customers of most any skill level. Gamblers might win a given hand out of sheer luck, but over an...
Paving the way to self-driving vehicles
Via Auto News: Self-driving vehicles have the potential to make immobility among elderly people and those with disabilities a thing of the past, experts say. Declining vision and other physical impairments will no longer inhibit people from going out to eat or...
Paving the way to self-driving vehicles
Via Auto News: Self-driving vehicles have the potential to make immobility among elderly people and those with disabilities a thing of the past, experts say. Declining vision and other physical impairments will no longer inhibit people from going out to eat or...
3D printing will explode in 2014, thanks to the expiration of key patents
Via Quartz: …not all 3D printing technologies are created equal. The revolution in manufacturing that was supposed to come with cheap, desktop 3D printers hasn’t materialized because, frankly, the models they produce are basically novelties, handy for giving you a...