Weekend Reading: Hiatus
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After numerous posts, and even more examples of bad Roman numerals. I am suspending my link posting.
Thank you for your attention.
After numerous posts, and even more examples of bad Roman numerals. I am suspending my link posting.
Thank you for your attention.
The CTO of this Hedge Fund was one of the people who started Google Research’s hybrid model. He had a very interesting perspective on the difficulties of creating effective but innovative research inside large commercial organisations.
http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/why-a-hedge-fund-started-a-video-game-competition
I’ve recently dipped back into playing Words with Friends,
The QA process for video games on consoles is intense. QA sounds like a terribly difficult job.
There is a post-millennial melancholy gripping the world right now, a sense that we have passed our peak. Perhaps this is the dip before the next peak when machine intelligence brings us the great revolution of the next phase of our existence. The world
https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-intelligence-explosion-5be4a9eda6ec
The placement of the wells in close proximity to the town, combined with the low compensation paid, are both troubling.
http://www.robertgaskins.com/powerpoint-history/sweating-bullets/gaskins-sweating-bullets-webpdf-isbn-9780985142414.pdf [PDF]
https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-listening-smartphone-microphone/
Tokens are a high-risk but highly innovative asset class for new organisations.
They can be a way to create a decentralised hybrid of kickstarter, seed investment, and engagement tool.
https://hackernoon.com/the-token-handbook-a80244a6aacb
Time to get writing on a Game of Life in Cards
http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/index.html
The presence of a private(?) surveillance/tracking interface is ominous, especially if they are storing or analysing that data.
https://ha.cking.ch/s8_data_line_locator/