February 2012
17 posts
“This week, at the end of its fiscal year on February 29, Red Hat marks a major...”
– How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business
“The conflation of these different kinds of innovations seems to be leading us...”
– Must read. For everybody.
Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle - NYTimes.com
We are waking up to a world where humans are trying to understand machines. The sense of excitement and anxiety that this brings along is rather intangible. At least to myself. I do not know what this means. I do not have the feeling of being able to control it, because I never learned to program machines. Nor do I think that I should even assume that I could control in the first place.
The...
“What do you call a thriving marketplace of robots buying nonexistent books from...”
– Fascinating.
Who Can Profit from Selling 1-Cent Books on Amazon? Robots. - Business - GOOD
“We already know that language is special; no other aspect of cognition...”
– The American Scholar: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sentence - Jessica Love
99% Music Mix :: Make Your Own Luck
“The entire orchestration of the symphony of mind unfolds like changes in a music...”
– The Symphony of Self
“This is the dilemma of being a cyborg: It’s not just that everything we once...”
– The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com
“In other words, with well over 70% of stock trading now done by robots, we have...”
– Humans assisting robots to make humans obsolete.
The Latest Market Craze: Stock Trading Robots Reacting To Stories Written By… Robots | ZeroHedge
“Manchmal erinnere ich mich daran, dass ich einen gigantischen Stein im Weltraum...”
– Marcel Wichmann
Bloom (Jamie xx Rework, Pt. 3) - Radiohead
(h/t @jensnikolaus)
Watch †EENWVFF - PALACE
