The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I wrote a little programmers guide. It can be found on our web page:
I use that guide as basis for my classes. That handbook isn't finished of course. We have two running application projects right now:
Another Good Enough Challenge to Proprietary Enterprise Search
The protestations of the enterprise search vendors in hock for tens of millions to venture funders will get louder. The argument is that proprietary search solutions are just better.
Navigate to “Postgres Full-Text Search Is Good Enough!” This has been the mantra of some of the European Community academics for a number of years. I gave a talk at CeBIT a couple of years ago and noted that the proprietary vendors were struggling to deliver a coherent and compelling argument. Examples of too-much-chest-beating came from speakers representing and Exalead and a handful of consultants. See, for example, http://bit.ly/1zicaGw.
The point of the “Postgres Good Enough” article strikes me as:
Way ahead, this is.
Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy
The Bad: Sascha Lobo and Martin Kenneyrecently introduced the term platform capitalism, which I’d define in reference to subcontracting and rental economies with big payouts going to small groups of people. Occupations that cannot be off-shored, the pet walkers or home cleaners, are now subsumed under platform capitalism.
The Good: Worker-owned cooperatives can offer an alternative model of social organization to address financial instability. They will need to be · collectively owned, · democratically controlled businesses, · with a mission to anchor jobs, · offer health insurance and pension funds and, – a degree of dignity.
Worthy.
Data Frame Model of Sensemaking Moore and Hoffman
Creating intelligence is a cognitive activity. Intelligence professionals – while they may use specific techniques or tools in their work – primarily think in order to understand complex causation and project to the future.
See Also:
Sensemaking Process Pirolli and Card
Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information
This bitcoin alternative is a threat to Wall Street
Peer-to-peer loans imperil banks, and cryptocurrencies may finish the job
EXTRACT
Digital currencies circumvent the fees and roadblocks to access that come with traditional financial services. The possibilities, especially in the underdeveloped world, are enormous. As much as $9.6 trillion in assets locked out of the global economy could be freed up, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Worth a second look!
Consciousness as Integrated Information: a Provisional Manifesto
Giulio Tononi
The Biological Bulletin, 2008
The integrated information theory (IIT) starts from phenomenology and makes use of thought experiments to claim that consciousness is integrated information. Specifically: (i) the quantity of consciousness corresponds to the amount of integrated information generated by a complex of elements; (ii) the quality of experience is specified by the set of informational relationships generated within that complex. Integrated information (Φ) is defined as the amount of information generated by a complex of elements, above and beyond the information generated by its parts. Read full article.
Huh?
‘Being homeless is better than working for Amazon'
Nichole Gracely has a master’s degree and was one of Amazon’s best order pickers. Now, after protesting the company, she’s homeless
I am homeless. My worst days now are better than my best days working at Amazon.
