June 2008
11 posts
Whatever happened to artificial intelligence? →
“If you define artificial intelligence as self-aware, self-learning, mobile systems, then artificial intelligence has been a huge disappointment. On the other hand, every time you search the Web, get a movie recommendation from NetFlix, or speak to a telephone voice recognition system, tools developed chasing the great promise of intelligent machines do the work.”
Is Don Norman right about Google? →
“Don Norman is sick and tired of hearing people praise Google’s clean, elegant look. He argues Yahoo! and MSN are complex-looking places because their systems are easier to use.”
(For those of you who don’t recognize the name, Don Norman is the author of the book The Design of Everyday Things, a classic in user-centered design.)
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this morning my dad went to go to the bathroom, but my little bro was already in there, my dad turns the knob but its locked, and in his deepest UT voice my bro shouts "DENIED"
My dad just walked away scratching his head
ROFLMAO
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GNOME in the Age of Decadence →
Computer Languages and Facial Hair →
(thanks peter!)
We'll Discuss This Further in Our Unit on...
[Class is conjugating Japanese verbs in the "to make someone or let someone" form.]
Student #1: To make someone eat.
Student #2: To make someone sit.
Student #3: To make someone forget. [Beat, then in English.] Wait, how can you make someone forget something?
Japanese teacher: Bourne Identity.
--Japanese Class, Columbia University. Overheard by Vicksburg (www.overheardinnewyork.com)
Interactive Linux Kernel Map →
From OSNews: “You can see the most important layers, functionalities, modules, functions, and calls. Each function on the map is a link to its source code. The map is interactive. You can zoom in and drag around to see details.”
digg labs →
computersnob:
very awesome.
Wuala, your files online →
a distributed file system.