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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Follow your guide
It looks like progress on the assistive technology front with Google's Project Guideline, "an artificial intelligence system designed to help blind and vision-impaired people to run races by themselves." Main point: It's "an attempt to give those people more...
Learning from the movers and “shapers”
It takes one to know one. I saw an article where Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, shared some things he learned from getting to know top movers and shakers like Elon Musk and Bill Gates.Main point: "Dalio often sees common threads in these leaders’...
IBM develops computer chip with a million ‘neurons’ that ‘functions like human brain’
Via Drudge and Mail Online: TrueNorth is the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own. It has one million ‘neurons’ and could cram the same power as a super computer into a circuit the size of a postage stamp. ...
Robots Will Take Over More Jobs Than They Create
Via Drudge and CBS Charlotte: 52 percent of respondents said that historically technology has ultimately created more jobs than it has displaced. They said people will find other forms of work that only human beings can perform; that the technological advances will...
Robots Will Take Over More Jobs Than They Create
Via Drudge and CBS Charlotte: 52 percent of respondents said that historically technology has ultimately created more jobs than it has displaced. They said people will find other forms of work that only human beings can perform; that the technological advances will...
Against happiness: Why we need a philosophy of failure
Via Arts and Letters Daily and Prospect Magazine: the spread of depression is partly a side-effect of our addiction to happiness. Conversely, understanding why we are so miserable should liberate us from being too miserable about it. We can feel good about feeling...
Against happiness: Why we need a philosophy of failure
Via Arts and Letters Daily and Prospect Magazine: the spread of depression is partly a side-effect of our addiction to happiness. Conversely, understanding why we are so miserable should liberate us from being too miserable about it. We can feel good about feeling...
Cartels Build A Robotic Air Force
Via Strategy Page: …cartels flew approximately 150 drone smuggling missions in 2012. The drones transport high value drugs such as cocaine. Mexico: Cartels Build A Robotic Air Force Looks like they beat Amazon.