Most people believe that a scenario in which a new dominant species arose and possibly wiped out humanity to be a terrible thing. This is natural as we instinctually fight as hard as we can for our survival.
For the last few millions of years though our ancestors have evolved from one species to the next, each new version better fitted for survival and more competent.… read more “Artificial Intelligence Takeover Might Be a Good Thing”
ProjectEuler.net is a really fun way to improve on your coding skills. I have worked through the first eight problems and am looking forward to working through the other 550. My programs are definitely not the most efficient solutions though, often taking quite a bit longer than the recommended one minute to solve.
“Environmentalists” have been protesting dams for years even though they are enormously greener and better for the environment than coal or gas. Could big oil and gas secretly be backing the anti-nuclear and anti-dam protestors? My bet is yes.
If you are looking to buy learning management system software you should try RomyLMS.com. I built this system last year for Coalition Technologies and last month I made it accessible for consumer use. We’ve worked hard to make sure it is easier to use than any existing LMSs out there.
A big part of ease of use is how you navigate through a system.… read more “Buy Learning Management System Software”
Coalition’s new homepage is going to be lightning fast! Very excited to get it done.
I think there are 4 levels of productivity an employee can have:
Doing work
Doing work + reporting on the work (let Joel know)
Doing work + reporting on the work + providing insights on the work (make recommendations)
Doing work + reporting on the work + providing insights on the work + taking action to improve the work based on insights (make necessary changes to systems and report to Joel).
Google’s new open source language parser, SyntaxNet, seems to be nearing human levels of sentence parsing. Trained human linguists can parse sentences with 97% accuracy, SyntaxNet can parse them with 94% accuracy… basically SyntaxNet is halfway there. If it doubles in efficiency twice, it will surpass humans.
When it surpasses humans, how far will we be from general strong artificial intelligence?… read more “SyntaxNet is Approaching Human Levels”
Everyone I know is now addicted to the Internet. Laurel and I have our phones out all the time, or we watch Netflix together, or read books on our Kindles, or work on our computers. I can’t even go to the bathroom without pulling out my phone to read Hacker News or the NyTimes.
Even my old technology hating Grandpa is now addicted.… read more “Internet Addiction”