Parable of #Google Flu: Traps in #BigData Analysis http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6176/1203.summary Replicating results is hard, w/ an ever-changing search algorithm
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The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis
September 29, 2014Alone in the Virtual Museum – The New Yorker
September 28, 2014With #Google’s Cultural Inst., you can walk
“Alone in the Virtual #Museum”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/alone-virtual-museum Yet real visits rising (>6M to Met in ’13)
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/home
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…gazing at our laptops, will discourage people from actually going to these institutions. This is flatly untrue. Museum attendance is on the rise, dramatically so. The Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, currently hosts 9.3 million visitors annually, and, as the Art Newspaper reported in July, it expects a thirty-per-cent increase, to twelve million a year, by 2025. In second and third place are the British Museum, with 6.7 million visitors a year, and the Met, with 6.2, and the rest of the globe is catching up fast.
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Alone in the Virtual Museum – The New Yorker
September 22, 2014With #Google’s Cultural Inst., can walk
“Alone in the Virtual #Museum”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/alone-virtual-museum Yet real visits on rising (>6M to Met last yr)
QT:{{”
…gazing at our laptops, will discourage people from actually going to these institutions. This is flatly untrue. Museum attendance is on the rise, dramatically so. The Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, currently hosts 9.3 million visitors annually, and, as the Art Newspaper reported in July, it expects a thirty-per-cent increase, to twelve million a year, by 2025. In second and third place are the British Museum, with 6.7 million visitors a year, and the Met, with 6.2, and the rest of the globe is catching up fast.
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Google – Recent Activity – Account Settings
September 21, 2014https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity
Useful Google/Gmail page with lots of relevant security history
“Note And Vote”: How Google Ventures Avoids Groupthink In Meetings
September 6, 2014Note & Vote: How #Google… Avoids Groupthink In Meetings, by @jakek
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034772/innovation-by-design/note-and-vote-how-google-ventures-avoids-groupthink-in-meetings But what if meeting is for learning, not voting
With This App and Gadget, Google Glass Can Read Your Mind
July 12, 2014With This… Gadget, #GoogleGlass Can Read Your Mind
http://mashable.com/2014/07/10/google-glass-mind-reader EEG biosensor tells glass to take pics; neat but privacy worries
Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid
July 6, 2014#Blackphone, Android for the paranoid – w/o #Google apps
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/exclusive-a-review-of-the-blackphone-the-android-for-the-paranoid Has useful services: Disconnect VPN, SilentCircle, SpiderOak
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July 5, 2014MT @mims: Googler basically saying that #Google is detached from the real world &… [overconfident] http://t.co/yzUpK9jMxg Sure of company?
Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid
July 4, 2014#Blackphone, Android for the paranoid
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/exclusive-a-review-of-the-blackphone-the-android-for-the-paranoid Has useful services (Disconnect VPN, Silent Circle, SpiderOak) but little $GOOG
Compare: How London Looks on Google vs. Paintings From the 1700s | Wired Design | Wired.com
June 21, 2014How #London Looks on $GOOG v #Paintings From the 1700s: Not too different! Fun to see this timetravel on a real visit
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/stunning-comparison-london-using-google-street-view-centuries-old-paintings
The ten images include a few central London, including:
Westminster Abbey, 2 near Trafalgar Sq, Covent Garden Market, the Strand & Bank Jct (coordinates 51.513433°N 0.089045°W)
Other similar write-ups:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/feb/25/london-paintings-google-street-view-canaletto-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/modern-london-with-historic-paintings-2014-2 http://imgur.com/a/jdIM0
Also, from @geocodedArt :
Paintings matched to location, w/StreetView: FR, UK, IT,
US DE NL http://goo.gl/2D97Jm . Or w/mobile http://goo.gl/oRZpQw
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