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slavin: “Wall Street’s credit-derivatives traders, who before the financial crisis commanded $2 million of annual pay, are being replaced by machines as banks cut costs and heed new regulations.UBS AG, Switzerland’s biggest bank, fired its head of credit-default swaps index trading, David Gallers, last week, with no plan to fill the position, according to two…
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Ambiguity tolerance is the ability to perceive ambiguity in information and behavior in a neutral and open way. Ambiguity tolerance is an important issue in personality development and education. In psychology and in management, levels of tolerance of ambiguity are correlated with creativity,[1] risk aversion, psychological resilience, lifestyle,[2] orientation towards diversity (cross-cultural communication, intercultural competence),…
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Mode Four – Generative Leadership. These leaders use ambiguity to find opportunity. They tend to be inveterate learners and innovators. Modes of leadership – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via notational)
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smarterplanet: New DARPA RFP Calls for All-In-One HUD that Sees Through Smoke, In The Dark and In Broad Daylight DARPA wants a multi-band head-up display, which could be mounted to a helmet or a weapon scope, that combines several wavelengths of light into one image. Sunny? No problem—the camera can see in visible light. Smoke…
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The facial detection technology the company uses now detects whether a person is male or female and his or her approximate age. It also keeps a running tally of the number of people in the bar, providing this info to the bar owner and to anyone with the app on their phone. The patent application,…
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Semiotics Pop-Up Symposium
Semiotics Pop-Up Symposium Pop-up symposium. 2-30pm on 15 November 2012 at London Metropolitan University Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Holloway Road, London. Featuring: * The transdisciplinary view of information theory from a Cybersemiotic perspective by SØREN BRIER (Copenhagen Business School) * Emonic signs: a sign type between index and symbol, based on imitation by…
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prostheticknowledge: LA Game Space – Kickstarter Ambitious yet exciting project looking for funding – a creative gaming Bauhaus to educate, develop and push the video game into a forward thinking artform: Game design has always featured creativity and experimentation, from the earliest pioneers to the recent rise of independent creators. And yet, we have barely…
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dxinteractive: Skategame development: grind mapping ~ This is how I plan the various grind tricks to work. Depending on your rotation when you land, it’ll round off to the nearest 45 degrees (the nearest ‘grindangle’), and if the UP or DOWN key is being held it’ll choose the nose or tail variant (top or bottom…
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LA Game Space will explore what video games can be through residencies, exhibitions, research labs, speaker series, and workshops. Wow, the full description sounds neat. I would love to use this model to start something in Denver. Check the website (http://lagamespace.org/) and their Kickstarter campaign (LA Game Space — a place for re-imagining video games…
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At the Washington Post, Brad Plumer highlights a passage from Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise. Silver interviewed Murray Campbell, a computer scientist that worked on Deep Blue, who explained that during the 1997 tournament the supercomputer suffered from a bug in the first game. Unable to pick a strategic move because of the…