Autoritäre Staaten drängen auf Internet-Kontrolle durch Regierungen und wollen dies in einem verbindlichen globalen Abkommen verankern. Wenn sie Erfolg haben, könnte das Internet weniger offen, teurer und weitaus langsamer werden. Wir haben Bedrohungen wie diese bereits mehrfach abgewendet und wir können dies jetzt wieder tun -- aber nur mit einer gewaltigen weltweiten Protestwelle!
18 Minuten beträgt die durchschnittliche Halbwertszeit eines Tweets, gemessen daran, wie lange er weitergezwitschert wird. Zu diesem Schluss kommt Peter Bray von seomoz anhand eigener Statistiken und zeigt auf, was dies für die Twitter-Nutzung bedeutet. Ein Ergebnis: Weniger ist ...
Glyn Moody took advantage of one of Linus Torvalds' rare trips to Europe – speaking at the recent LinuxCon Europe 2012 in Barcelona – to interview him again, reviewing the key moments for the Linux kernel and its community since he first interviewed him back in 1996
Junge Union, Jusos, Grüne Jugend, Junge Liberale und Junge Piraten sind sich darin einig, dass dieser Eingriff in die freiheitliche Architektur des Internets nicht hinnehmbar ist.
Sail is an RDF triple/quad store interface developed by OpenRDF. Any database the implements the Sail interfaces properly is a valid RDF triple/quad store. A graph database is a great way to build a triple/quad store because its possible to mix indexing and graph traversals to solve the RDF “pattern match” problem.
My experience with document interchange led me to classify document formats using the essential distinction that some are "programmable" and some are not. [..]
The reason that this distinction is essential with respect to document interchange is that extracting information from documents in "programmable" document formats is equivalent to the halting problem. That is, it is arbitrarily difficult and cannot be automated in a general fashion.
For example, I conjecture that it is impossible to write a program that will extract the third word from a TeX document.
Computer Science in the 1960s to 80s spent a lot of effort making languages which were as powerful as possible. Nowadays we have to appreciate the reasons for picking not the most powerful solution but the least powerful. The reason for this is that the less powerful the language, the more you can do with the data stored in that language. If you write it in a simple declarative from, anyone can write a program to analyze it in many ways. The Semantic Web is an attempt, largely, to map large quantities of existing data onto a common language so that the data can be analyzed in ways never dreamed of by its creators.
"Unsere intuitive Moral - selbsttäuschend, nepotistisch, sippenbetont, anthropozentrisch und an Strafen orientiert - lässt sich nicht mit irgendeiner konsistenten Menge moralischer Werte in Einklang bringen, seien diese nun aristotelisch, kantianisch oder utilaristisch." - Geoffrey Miller, Das Kontinuum von Persönlichkeit und Wahnsinn, S.315
"I’m not a moralist. I’m a pragmatist operating at a level of long-term vision and ruthlessness that is difficult for most people to wrap their minds around (and perhaps impossible for you). I don’t give a shit about “right thought” as long as I can elicit the behaviors I want, and I believe “right thought” usually follows changes in behavior as a rationalization rather than causally preceding them." - Eric S. Raymond, comment to own article
Von der Leyens Zusatzrenten-Modell helfe nicht als Mittel gegen Altersarmut, sagt Sozialforscher Butterwegge gegenüber tagesschau.de: "Das ist reine Augenwischerei." Nur eine ganz kleine Gruppe Menschen würde damit überhaupt erreicht werden. Und mit Demografie habe das Rentenproblem gar nichts zu tun.
There a 4 generations working side by side right now. That has never happened before at any time in human history. None of them are stepping aside for the current generation.
Cargo cult software engineering is easy to identify. Cargo cult software engineers justify their practices by saying, "We’ve always done it this way in the past," or "our company standards require us to do it this way"—even when those ways make no sense.
I've seen a race of electronically linked humanoids who share information in a vast decentralized net to which they all have access; who see data as a kind of neutral atmosphere, like air; who use technology to share thoughts and impressions at all times; who are never out of contact with one another; and who react to the briefest removal from their shared consciousness with an itchy, frantic eagerness (cf. "Hugh") to get back.
I'm trying to amass a list of programming books that are freely available on the Internet. The books can be about a particular programming language or about computers in general.
What are some freely available programming books on the Internet?
The base rate fallacy, also called base rate neglect or base rate bias, is an error that occurs when the conditional probability of some hypothesis H given some evidence E is assessed without taking into account the prior probability ("base rate") of H and the total probability of evidence E.
About three-quarters of venture-backed firms in the U.S. don't return investors' capital, according to recent research by Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.
A. Leitner, M. Oriol, A. Zeller, I. Ciupa, and B. Meyer. Proceedings of the Twenty-second IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, page 417--420. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2007)
A. Lancichinetti, and S. Fortunato. (2009)cite arxiv:0908.1062Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures. The software to compute the values of our general normalized mutual information is available at http://santo.fortunato.googlepages.com/inthepress2.