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Re: Poindexter, Jonas and The Birth of Real-Time Dot Connecting

cgerrish — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:43:28 -0000

The interesting bit is that everyone has the same problem, it's cheap and easy to collect dots-- but it's expensive and hard to connect them. If the pattern holds, we should expect that technology to come from DARPA or In-Q-Tel rather than the Silicon Valley.

Re: Poindexter, Jonas and The Birth of Real-Time Dot Connecting

aronski — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:00:47 -0000

Remarkable article; not surprising at all, considering the time and the man. Real time tracking for the intelligence community has had to be a long time dream and the ability for a full aggregate of "Everything" the best way to tailor results. Strangely, it also seems like the best way to misdirect information as we've found out early in the social media days; how many times have the guns been jumped without checking a second source in the twitter age? I always felt that besides the obvious technical difficulties of managing the firehose that certain elements wouldn't want "citizens" to have access to such information.

Re: Gluttony: Total Information Awareness, Personal Edition

cgerrish — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:41:51 -0000

I'll definitely take a look.

Re: Gluttony: Total Information Awareness, Personal Edition

twitter-12301392 — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:09:26 -0000

Hi Cliff,

Nice write-up. You should check out http://feeltiptop.com/ a new way of absorbing information. The current product is more of a prototype but you can I think see the potential of the engine. Let me know what you think, would love discuss if you have time. This is my latest project :-)

Cheers
Shampa

Re: Gluttony: Total Information Awareness, Personal Edition

cgerrish — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:05:42 -0000

Seems like contextual information is the *only* possible thing. It's how language works.

Re: Gluttony: Total Information Awareness, Personal Edition

cgerrish — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:04:37 -0000

I'd wait to see if you hear about these concepts from a few other people. The post itself is only a container for the ideas.

Re: Gluttony: Total Information Awareness, Personal Edition

cgerrish — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:02:26 -0000

HAMM:
I love the old questions.
(With fervour.)
Ah the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
(Pause.)
http://www.samuel-beckett.net/endgame.html

Re: Gluttony: Total Information Awareness, Personal Edition

twitter-7766852 — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:57:02 -0000

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." --Pablo Picasso

Re: Gluttony: Total Information Awareness, Personal Edition

twitter-15087391 — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:59:38 -0000

Not sure I agree about the filter since then question behind the question research or info seeking is then ignored....well maybe not.

If used as a meta filter, hearing about Afganistan three time or misinformation three times, then I understand.

Certainly we are overwhelmed with info. I find there are dimensions, questions and information behind the original topic, that pull me but also add to the overload. Contextual information is almost impossible.

Re: Gluttony: Total Information Awareness, Personal Edition

paprikapink — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:51:28 -0000

Very interesting, but not sure about letting any attention rest on it . I heard about this post from one person I know, @Karoli... but is following someone on Twitter for two years really knowing...? Blasted Internet, raising more questions than answers as usual.

Re: Electronic Yellow Sticky Routing Slips: Tweets As Pointers

heinz — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:55:40 -0000

Excellent! Especially the idea that twitter ist not a version of something else.

Re: Electronic Yellow Sticky Routing Slips: Tweets As Pointers

Gualterio — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:12:30 -0000

Very concise thoughts, I fully concur.

BTW, besides from Flipboard I also like Paper.li
E.g. 'my' news on web 2.0 are called http://paper.li/qualterio

Re: Permanent Markers: Memory And Forgiveness

cgerrish — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:10:06 -0000

Mutation is one of the ways language works. Lera Boroditsky has done some interesting work on how language shapes thought: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html

Re: Permanent Markers: Memory And Forgiveness

Randy Bosch — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:23:05 -0000

Excellent points to ponder. An added twist is that mutation of word meanings can radically alter the apparant meaning of your past writings. This is quite likely as historical criticism as an approach to "understanding" what people meant in the past is quite widespread.

"Words Have Meaning": Don't mutate meaning for cleverness or "branding" -http://wp.me/pVUDj-7J explores this a bit at "RenaissanceRules"

Re: As Machines May Think…

cgerrish — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:28:21 -0000

'Machines that think' or 'machines who think.' The difference in those two phrases encapsulates the problem.

Re: As Machines May Think…

hardaway — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:22:50 -0000

Awesome. You have touched on the soul. Thinker and thought can't be separate. And memories ARE alternative realities, or witnesses would be more reliable.

Re: As Machines May Think…

cgerrish — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:51:46 -0000

Perhaps we should call it 'intelligent design.'

Re: As Machines May Think…

LarryM — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:38:53 -0000

I dont even know why people call it artificial intelligence, its programmed by us there is nothing artificial about it.

Re: As Machines May Think…

cgerrish — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:57:01 -0000

I'd prefer to leave out the words "artificial" and "intelligence." Can't we just say that "better" is better than worse?

Re: As Machines May Think…

twitter-16276025 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:51:51 -0000

Two comments on AI: (1) Artificial Intelligence is better than none, and, (2) No amount of Artificial Intelligence can overcome Real Stupidity

Re: Banks, Walled Gardens And Metaphors of Place

cgerrish — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:01:02 -0000

Banks don't stop at national borders, although their regulation does. Financial instruments, excessive and otherwise, have an international circulation. But I'll grant you that American banks do have an excess of creativity.

Re: Banks, Walled Gardens And Metaphors of Place

Charlesbo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:18:06 -0000

Actually one could argue (as I often do) that American Banks were simply to competitive with each other which spurred the creation of excessive financial instruments. Take a look at how stable Canadian banks were during the crisis.

Re: Real-Time Networks, Man-In-The-Middle, And The Misappropriation Of ‘Hot News’

cgerrish — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:39:25 -0000

The borders at the edges of organizations are always permeable membranes. Rolling Stone publishes every 2 weeks, generally it's not going to matter if a Lady Gaga tell all leaks out early. The issue here is that the story for the paper edition connected with a bigger ongoing story about COIN. The two stories coming into contact ignited. Rolling Stone will do okay, everyone is talking about them and that's bound to sell some magazines.

Re: Real-Time Networks, Man-In-The-Middle, And The Misappropriation Of ‘Hot News’

Karoli — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:36:30 -0000

I was amazed that Rolling Stone allowed the details to leak without being ready to publish the story somewhere other than paper. Amazed.

Re: The End of the PC: 3 Screens and a Cloud

nicetalk — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:34:21 -0000

Great and informative article.