Now with 100% fewer socks
Now with 100% fewer socks
Davey Alba at Wired muses that we are headed towards a “splinternet”: an internet that is different depending on the country of origin. There are two unfortunate realities to this. First, this is already true, in his own acknowledgement. Second, it is inevitable. What’s worrying isn’t that there are different internets; it’s that there’s a max-censored one.
A recent paper from Microsoft Research, Azure and John Hopkins University discusses the issues of troubles of grey failures. This is…
CoreOS recently commissioned a study to show the usage of containers in the clouds where they discuss how many enterprises are using Kubernetes, and how this is spearheading a move to hybrid clouds. Interesting, I thought, and take a look.
Deep Learning is the machine intelligence du jour, being peddled from the largest companies to the smallest startups. Google claims it’s backing their search, Niantic claims to be using it to sniff out cheaters, and Apple is, well, Apple-ish about it. If we cut away the buzz, what is it and why is it important?
Map shading is a very traditional art, and the tradition has been thus for more than a century: the light shines upon the earth from the northwest, something it can never and will never do in real life. Yet this looks natural to us. Why is this?
The Internet has been a great equalising force as a platform for the spread of opinion, and it can take…
I recently watched a YouTube video that went into great detail (15 minutes of detail, to give an indication) on…
Yesterday’s entry on Google Home has been viewed over 10,000 times at the time of writing. The data collection, however,…
Bloomberg reports that Chinese factories are increasingly turning to automation in order to combat wage pressure and rising wages for the Chinese laborers. They are noting that factories with a higher margins are dealing with the wage increases and investing in automation, while for example textile manufacturers are increasingly looking to move to cheaper locations.
After seeing the poor feedback of Watson in Bridge Crew, I decided to take my four digital assistants for a spin. After 21 questions across four assistants, I learned that Alexa cannot give basic information about Amazon Prime videos, none of them can properly understand which movie you’re looking for information for, and none of them can actually recommend stuff. Also, Google still needs to learn how to round up.
