October 25, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on John McCarthy, father of AI, has died aged 84
John McCarthy, inventor of the LISP programming language and a pioneer of Artificial Intelligence, died a few hours ago. He coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” in 1955, and went on to found departments to study AI at Stanford & MIT. … Continue reading
October 21, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on Siri has the competition worried
The internet is awash with the sayings of Siri, the new voice activated assistant in the iPhone 4S. But the competitors are also talking about Siri. Android Chief says your phone should not be your assistant: “Your phone is a … Continue reading
October 19, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on Lemony Snicket Comments On Occupy Wall Street
Lemony Snicket, author of the popular children’s books “A Series of Unfortunate Events” and a movie of the same name, wrote a series of Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance: Money … Continue reading
October 15, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on Cooking the Books
Benford’s Law states that numbers for many real-life data sources have a distribution of leading digits that follow the following equation: In other words, the first digit of an arbitrary number is the digit “1” around 30.1% of the time, … Continue reading
October 6, 2011
by stephen
Comments Off on Steve Jobs has passed away
Creator of the personal computer. Creator of the first windowed operating system to reach the market. Creator of the first mouse to reach the market. Creator of the computer-animated feature-length movie. Creator of the portable music player integrated with a … Continue reading