February 2012
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The Definition of Open
Note: This post has originally been made by DeWitt Clinton in Google+ - I’m not using a block-quote format since the post is too long for that.
“I believe what Android is accomplishing is truly revolutionary. Mobile is the way that billions of people will one day access the Internet. And through that access, we will soon start to narrow the massive knowledge gap that currently...
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Positional Notation for Relative Goodness
I’ve come up with a novel way to represent the degree of goodness and badness of things, without resorting to ambiguous terminologies like “okay”, “not bad”, “great” and “awesome”; or needing to state mathematically precise percentages, a la “50% good”.
The system proposes the use of “good” and “bad” as absolute adjectives, representing “100% good” and “100% bad” – or, if you prefer, “totally...
January 2012
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Crunchies 2011 - What Caught My Eye
The Crunchies 2011 Awards by TechCrunch has just been announced, and the results hold many an interesting tid-bit. Here’s a quick look at what caught my eye about this year’s Crunchies.
Siri beat Lytro to the “Best Technological Achievement of the Year”, which is unfortunate. Siri is indeed a countable advancement in speech recognition; but in comparison, Lytro is a revolution in imaging...