Kevin Gold of RIT posts on Tor.com about AI program Watson’s performance on Jeopardy.
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Category Archives: Technology
LinkedIn Professional Connections Map
My evil twin Skippy has a LinkedIn account. LinkedIn now allows you to get a snapshot of your professional network. Here’s her network.
Ain’t it purty?
I have to say, I really like LinkedIn. I got my current, terrific job because of my LinkedIn profile and network of connections.
Go here to learn more and create your own (you have to have a LinkedIn account to play).
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New Spaceships Should Be Safer than Shuttle
And while I’m at it: New spaceships should be safer than shuttle – Technology & science – Space – msnbc.com.
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Fabulous Solar Eclipse Shot
Belated post, but Phil Platt of Bad Astronomy fame has posted an incredible photo of the recent solar eclipse here.
What’s nearly as cool as the shot is his description of what the photographer who took it had to do in order to pull it off.
Whee! I love this stuff.
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Google Tool: Word Usage Trend Analysis
Google and Harvard have teamed up to provide access to over five million books–and a tool that enables you to track word usage over time.
With little fanfare, Google has made a mammoth database culled from nearly 5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free downloads and online searches, opening a new landscape of possibilities for research and education in the humanities….The intended audience is scholarly, but a simple online tool also allows anyone with a computer to plug in a string of up to five words and see a graph that charts the phrase’s use over time — a diversion that can quickly become as addictive as the habit-forming video game Angry Birds.
More here.
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