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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace thedocumentarian: by Adam Curtis,
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Some organizations are already caught in that flood. Consider Facebook. Already host to more digital photos than any other company, Facebook is building new storage and processing infrastructure as fast as it can. Yet it is pushing the database technology it is using to the limit, splitting its famed social graph across 4,000 databases that…
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The team built tiny, simple robots, just a few centimeters tall, made of wheels for mobility and a basic sensory system equipped with a camera. Moving around an arena, they would seek out “food”–small discs scattered by the researchers. To lend a biological flavor to the arena, the team programmed each robot with stream of…
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After having taught introductory programming (CS 1) for the past six years, and having watched many students struggle through this course and the subsequent course (CS 2), I have come to the conclusion that it is absurd to expect students who don’t have any prior programming experience to be well prepared to study Computer Science…
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The transistors will appear in Intel’s new “Ivy Bridge” microprocessor, which will be made using a 22nm manufacturing process and begin shipping later this year. Intel’s processor is the first make the jump from 32nm to 22nm, continuing the decades-long race to keep boosting the number of transistors that can be packed into the same…
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After playing several hundred games to develop their language, the robots agreed on directions within 10 degrees and distances within 0.375 meters. And using just their invented language, the robots created spatial maps (including areas that they were unable to explore) that agree remarkably well: (via Lingodroid Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language – IEEE…
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In this week’s column, I’m going to talk about Google choosing the open source hardware platform (Arduino) for the “Android Open Accessory” kit, and why this matters. I’m also going to talk a little about how Google could make it better. And then, I’m going to do what I always do in many of my…
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Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters – Slashdot
Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters – Slashdot
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Academic libraries have been beset by changes that have led some observers to wonder whether they have a future at all. Their budgets have been hit hard even as the cost of buying and storing information—whether print monographs or journal databases—continues to climb. Search engines have replaced librarians as the go-to source of information for…
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drawnblog: More from illustrator Jason Levesque, as he shares a time lapse colouring of one of his pieces in Photoshop. Here’s the finished version below: (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)