Category: Cognitive Systems AI

Source: Chomsky, Valiant and the algorithmic mirror https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160128-ecorithm-computers-and-life/  

"Like" you already know— now say hello to "love," "haha," "wow," "sad," and "angry". Source: Facebook Reactions, the Totally Redesigned Like Button, Is Here | WIRED

We Americans don't pickle like other countries pickle. And before you pipe up about how often you make pickles, or your mom does, or that one friend who wants everyone to love kombucha does, that's great but by U.S. standards you're special and internationally we're still behind. While stateside Source: What The Funk: Why Don't … Continue reading Why Don’t Americans Ferment More Stuff? 

A Scottish philosopher visited Silicon Valley, and he didn't like what he saw. Source: The Information Revolution's Dark Turn - The Atlantic

It's time to elect the first artificial intelligence into office. Source: Watson for President 2016

Crooks are reportedly demanding 9,000 in Bitcoin - about $3.4 million - from Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Source: Hollywood hospital held to ransom by cybercrooks – Naked Security

Just as the emerging medical field around the so-called human microbiome seeks to fight disease by adjusting the balance of bacteria in the body, Indigo’s goal is to manipulate the composition of bacteria in plants to grow healthier crops that ultimately produce more nutritious food. Source: Startup Indigo wants to use bacteria to create hardy … Continue reading Indigo uses pre industrial microbiome to create hardy super-crops 

Is New York "greener" than California? Source: 10 Reasons New York Is 'Greener' Than California

POC21: Where more than 100 makers, designers, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and geeks join forces to prototype the collaborative, circular economy. Source: POC21: "The World We Need" - Commons TransitionCommons Transition

You've heard about how robocars are going to upend the economy. But have you thought about what they'll do to urban space? Source: No parking? Self-driving cars could have a huge effect on our cities | Grist

Little Rock is the most affordable apartment market and New York is the least affordable, according to Axiometrics' apartment data. Source: The Most (And Least) Affordable Apartment Markets

Often organizations think that the need for a common infrastructure is about reducing duplication or eliminating waste. That, to me, is a by-product. Rather what we need is to unlock the flows of creativity and connectivity across people. Accenture has been moving avidly to design their infrastructure to accelerate how employees collaborate--a key value of … Continue reading Unlocking The River Of Knowledge Collaboration At Accenture 

According to a recent Forbes article, Microsoft OneNote is an edtech game-changer. Source: “It illustrates just how powerful the education technologies of the future can and will be.” - K-12 Tech Decisions

Marketplaces connect producers of value with consumers of value and collect a fee for facilitating the interaction. It's possible to set up a marketplace in under 48 hours with commercially available consumer technology. Source: How To Launch A Digital Marketplace In Two Days | Inc.com

In yet another example of the impact of antiquated "records management" on health regulation Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality is struggling to obtain data on city’s lead service lines. Source: After news reports, state asks Flint for lead service line info | Michigan Radio

The design jobs of the future are pretty interesting - have you even heard of all of these career paths? Some surprised us. Source: What are the most important design jobs of the future? - The American Genius

The plug-in reportedly alerts users when they type in self deprecating words and phrases. Source: Just Not Sorry: Chrome plug-in to help make employees more assertive in emails

Source: The Misfit Economy

The rate of data creation today is already simply mind-boggling. And it’s speeding up more every day. IDC’s latest Digital Universe study predicts about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for every human being on the planet by 2020. Consumers create the vast majority of new data in the world today … Continue reading Moving from data governance to data collaboration

Concerned about what you're sleeping on? Consumer Reports has sorted through several organic mattress labels, and we judged only a few to be meaningful. Source: Organic Mattress Labels You Can Trust - Consumer Reports

When it comes to food purity and ingredient quality, there is no golden age for us to restore. Source: There have always been shady people cutting your food with garbage | Grist

The Sony a7S II is known to have amazing performance in low light and at high ISO. To see just how powerful its low light capabilities are, a Greek photogr Source: Here's How the Sony a7S II Compares to the Human Eye in Low Light

As has become clear in China, the economies of scale once offered by increasing the size of cities have broken down in urban agglomerations over 10 million people, where their size has now become an encumbrance to further growth, and a menace to the health and safety of their residents. Source: Around The World, The … Continue reading The Tide Is Turning Against Megacities 

If you've ever supported a friend or family member fighting cancer or another acute, life-changing disease, you probably know about CarePages and CaringBridge. The Source: Crowd funding comes to cancer care