I scanned through the artificial-intuition.com site and still can't tell what it is. It sounds like usual machine learning (no theory or first-order logic, instead identifying (possibly nonlinear) correlations between variables). The marketing-speak makes it difficult to tell how their method compares to other well-known ones. At the point, it seems like their biggest achievement is in PR (Artificial Intuition is a great name!) but if someone has any specifics, I'd love to know.
Ah you're right, weird that I never noticed it before. Still, I wonder if the revision control is specific for each app or built into the storage layer..
Could this be a test of an underlying storage functionality that could spread to other Google apps? If the underlying storage layer becomes changeset-based, this type of feature could be easily implemented (and very helpful) in products like Google Docs.
What a clever idea! The specific features here aren't that appealing to me but the idea of integrating crow-sourcing into an otherwise normal app is intriguing.
IANAL but selling the device is not illegal and a court would not consider it a stolen item. It's against Google's terms, which is a contract between Google and the recipient of the cr48. Why is eBay enforcing that contract?
I always thought it was odd that ASF, one of the early open-source successes, was so heavily Java which has always been semi-open at best. Stuff like this lends more credence to the ideological purity of the GNU guys..
"Scientific Outsourcing" does not say "college students" or "extra/menial work to me". Based on the tagline, I would expect something more like consultants with MS or PhD who do freelance research projects.
I was 11. My dad was in a master's program and I used to use his account to access gopher. I had no use (or understanding) of the documents but was somehow fascinated by the endless series of menus. That, and prodigy.
A previous manager of mine used to work at AT&T in the early 90s and according to her, AT&T was convinced that gopher was the future. The web was too disorganized to be of much use.
I think it's reasonable to expect some privacy in diplomatic communication. The rough drafts, as it were, need to be private so that fear of embarrassment does not automatically remove any options from consideration. Of course, once privacy is granted, it can and is used to cover up much more -- mistakes, corruption, duplicity, etc.
Not sure I understand the target audience for this. If you're writing in text files instead of Word and are comfortable working in the terminal, wouldn't you also be comfortable with a Git GUI? What would be cool is if there were plugins that could show diffs for non-text files like Word.
This is just trolling. The two examples show this: "look at the liberals funding soccer and hollywood research!". Congress can slash overall NSF budget but is it really going to get involved in the NSF granting process? No.
If it's anything like speech recognition in Android, it's all server-side..so this should be technically possible in any browser as long as google allows it.
Peer-review failed here. It might be forgivable that a medical researcher doesn't know Calculus (maybe..), but if an article is making a mathematical claim, the journal should find appropriate reviewers. And this is not even remotely advanced math.
Amazon's Mechanical Turk seems like a good way to gather training data.. and it might even be cheap enough to use instead of a trained model (at least at first).