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But they're at least into the idea, according to a new survey. | "Game Boy development was interesting in that you were always coding with battery in mind." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18873662
bspw. ANT Censuses of the Internet Address Space: https://ant.isi.edu/address/ | Almost optimal way to take a 1-dimensional array of bytes, and arrange them in 2 dimensions, such that bytes that are close together in a single dimension are also close in two dimensions
s.a. IBM's Blue CRUSH & PredPol; Patterns inherent in past crimes (type, place, and time) provide ample info for predictions, no indiv. or popul. data; However: CPD Heat-List "präventiv von Beamten besucht" http://boingboing.net/2014/02/25/chicago-pds-big-data-using.html
Entropy analysis examines the statistical variation in malware executables, enabling analysts to quickly and efficiently identify packed and encrypted samples.
2006 | The IDF have been heavily influenced by contemporary philosophy, highlighting the fact that there is considerable overlap among theoretical texts deemed essential by military academies and architectural schools
"Emotional Cartography is a collection of essays from artists, designers, psychogeographers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together by Christian Nold, to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visualising intimate biometric data and emotional experiences using technology" - http://www.biomapping.net/ - 18min/160MB-Video: http://www.archive.org/download/BioMapping/BioMapping.mp4
Das funktioniert recht gut mit Skype + TightVNC. Es ersetzt zwar kein Face-To-Face-Pairing, kann es aber irgendwo kompensieren, wenn es fehlt. U.a. für Ferndiagnosen, Ferntraining, ...
„charakteristisch war auch eine aufforderung der situationisten, sich absichtlich in fremden städten zu verlaufen, um sich neuen entdeckungen, erfahrungen und zusammentreffen auszusetzen, oder dort stadtpläne anderer städte zur (des-)orientierung zu nutzen. nach ihrer auffassung war der städtische bebaute raum der sichtbare ausdruck jenes (über-)rationalen denkens, das sie kritisierten. jedes gebäude wie etwa plattenbausiedlungen oder einkaufszentren transportierte demzufolge ansichten über menschen (..), und unterschwellige vorgaben an dort verkehrende menschen, sich auf bestimmte weise zu verhalten.“ --- s.a. Promenadologie u. Emotional Cartography
Wirtschaftsprüfer/Steuerfahnder nutzen Methoden, die auf einer Gesetzmäßigkeit i.d. Verteilung der Ziffernstrukturen von Zahlen in empir. Datensätzen beruhen | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7794190
"Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce. Developers can leverage this service to build human intelligence directly into their applications." Sample Business Cases: http://aws.amazon.com/mturk/#bus-case "We had the wrong idea about computers managing without human beings. Computers have realised that the real way to make money is to employ millions of people doing jobs computers cannot do, and for pennies." (Pierre Lazuly) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_use_mechanical_turk_to_rock_conference_blogging.php
Durch das 'Kartensortieren' werden zukünftige Enduser am Strukturieren des Informationsraums ihrer Programme beteiligt => bessere Usability (insb. bessere Findability). Auch für Papierdokumente...
Pro: flexibel durch beliebige Suchmuster, keine Registrierung Kontra: 6 Stunden bis Update (wenn gratis) http://www.feed43.com/understanding-patterns.html Beim Veröffentlichen von Feed-Adressen an die Edit-Protection denken (geht auch nachträglich und ohne Registrierung)
The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment.
- http://senseable.mit.edu/obama/data_analysis.html
- http://senseable.mit.edu/realtimerome/
- http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/
- http://www.mamartino.com/
- http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ratti-smartest-cities-use-people-as-sensors Bilder:
- http://www.maind.supsi.ch/maindzine/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fig-3.jpg
- http://flowingcity.com/wp-content/uploads/madonna-color-630x472.jpg
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Supercomputer predicts revolution:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14841018