Archive for the 'tech' Category

How to Survive the Next Wave of Technology Extinction – NYTimes.com

February 22, 2014

How to Survive the Next Wave of Tech Extinction: Use $AAPL hardware, $GOOG services, $AMZN media & connector products
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/13/technology/personaltech/how-to-survive-the-next-wave-of-technology-extinction.html

Avoid Delicious!

Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet – Taylor Clark – The Atlantic

February 10, 2014

Jesse #Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet. Contains an interesting description of the nuts & bolts of web #scams
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/the-dark-lord-of-the-internet/355726

Infinite series: When the sum of all positive integers is a small negative fraction.

February 4, 2014

Simply the Most Astonishing #Math You’ll Ever See: 1+2+3+4+… = -1/12
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/17/infinite_series_when_the_sum_of_all_positive_integers_is_a_small_negative.html & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF HT @Tomorrow_Lab

Larissa MacFarquhar: The Tragedy of Aaron Swartz : The New Yorker

January 21, 2014

@stevenstrogatz27: David Brooks was right: This @NewYorker article about Aaron Swartz by Larissa MacFarquhar is outstanding

The Tragedy of Aaron #Swartz: Such a smart person (eg developer of RSS). Such an avoidable end.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/11/130311fa_fact_macfarquhar HT @stevenstrogatz

Tech startups: A Cambrian moment | The Economist

January 19, 2014

A Cambrian moment
http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21593580-cheap-and-ubiquitous-building-blocks-digital-products-and-services-have-caused … HT @CraigAPeterson @StefanGlaenzer (1/2)

.@CraigAPeterson @StefanGlaenzer Insightful? Are AWSesque platforms equivalent of 1 in a billion yr opportunity for startups? Not sure (2/2)

Lifelogging: Crowdsourcing + life logs = big insights – tech – 10 January 2014 – New Scientist

January 19, 2014

#Lifelogging: Crowdsourcing + lifelogs = big insights => Glow for fertility. Next? Breath for asthma?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129514.800-lifelogging-crowdsourcing–life-logs–big-insights.html HT @sam_c86

How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood – Atlantic Mobile

January 17, 2014

.@kdnuggets 77K genres from auto. & manual methods like
gene-classification approaches. How $NFLX Rev. Eng. Hollywood http://theatln.tc/1cKP4gx

http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/

I’ve Been Using Tags All Wrong

January 16, 2014

.@florisvaneck Has to be an optimal way to do this. I’ve Been Using #Tags All Wrong
http://lifehacker.com/ive-been-using-tags-all-wrong-1498663444 My system: http://blog.gerstein.info/2010/11/my-tagging-philosophy.html

Evgeny Morozov: Hackers, Makers, and the Next Industrial Revolution : The New Yorker

January 16, 2014

#Hackers, #Makers, and the Next Industrial Revolution: Homebrew
Computer Club (or DIY) of the future? http://nyr.kr/L3OXDg HT
@adrogersam

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2014/01/13/140113crat_atlarge_morozov

A CRITIC AT LARGE

MAKING IT

Pick up a spot welder and join the revolution.

BY EVGENY MOROZOV

JANUARY 13, 2014

Michael Specter: Inside B.G.I., China’s Genomics Factory : The New Yorker

January 9, 2014

LETTER FROM SHENZHEN
THE GENE FACTORY
A Chinese firm’s bid to crack hunger, illness, evolution—and the genetics of human intelligence.
BY MICHAEL SPECTER
JANUARY 6, 2014

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/06/140106fa_fact_specter

.@andrewhessel Gene Factory: Interesting food for thought on #BGI’s cognitive #genomics research & $GNOM acquisition
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/06/140106fa_fact_specter