Author: Max K Goff

Awesome 2.0

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data

I took a fiction writing course once during a hazy undergrad phase. One memorable story I recall, written by a classmate, featured a character named Awesome. That was before awesome was awesome. The character Awesome was ironically named. But the…

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Microbots in Surgical Scrubs

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Borg

You may recall the hypothetical respirocyte from the turn of the century. The salad days of the Network Age were filled with promise — anything was possible then, as new companies like google and yahoo seemed to transcend old school…

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Seeing Data

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data

Just came across this fabulous article by Marcus Woo … Seeing Data. Big data, by definition, implies drinking in vast quantities of information that must necessarily be distilled down into a mixture which we humans can tractably consume and digest.…

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Telekinesis Now

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data

By sensing a disturbance in the force, as it were, Network Age telekinesis at home is soon upon us. Through the analysis of ambient Wi-Fi signals a team at the University of Washington has developed code that senses very subtle…

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Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer

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Wired article worth the read: Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer on Way to Chess World Record There are several Network Age themes of note in this one article. Consider: – Education has fundamentally changed. Immersion is emerging as a best practice.…

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Bio Hack

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Data Science, Platforms & Tools

After the winter holidays in 2012 I played CMU’s Eterna for several weeks, often for hours at a stretch. My addiction lasted about 6 weeks or so, as I recall. Eterna isn’t a game, really, although the ranking system did…

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When Will AI Be Created?

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data

I found this article from the good folks at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute to be a good read. To save you the trouble, the bottom line is, nobody knows. Some folks say maybe by 2040. Others, sooner (Kurzweil), like…

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Quantum Hack

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Data Science

NY Time Blog headline this morning: Google Buys a Quantum Computer Teaming with NASA, they’re forming the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QAIL) to focus on machine learning. Better search will come, one supposes. I missed the announcement of the first…

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Foundation and Empire

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Data Science

Is it possible to predict global conflict? For those sired on Asimov’s work, the title of this post will be familiar. You may recall psychohistory, Isaac’s early-50s term for the mathematical mashup of history, sociology, and statistics used to make…

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Brain Jack

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Data Science

“I can imagine a cognitive prosthesis–some digital mnemonic device that extends my personal storage capacity in some way, but accessed directly via my own thoughts, as if it were an integral part of my own cognitive system.” — The Artisan…

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