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Sentient code: Stephen Wolfram’s linguistic computing platform

Posted on December 2, 2013December 26, 2013 by timbatchelder

Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm
John Koetsier, venturebeat.com

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In 2002 Stephen Wolfram released A New Kind of Science and immediately unleashed a firestorm of wonder, controversy, and criticism as the British-born scientist, programmer, and entrepreneur overturn…

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Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm (vivektek.wordpress.com)
Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm (compusciencenet.wordpress.com)
Stephen Wolfram wants to leave Google, Wikipedia in the dust (washingtonpost.com)
Wolfram announces ‘most important’ project: a programming language that models the world (theverge.com)
Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on RPi (innovativepi.wordpress.com)
Stephen Wolfram Developing New Programming Language (developers.slashdot.org)

Top 5 cities for computer science jobs

Posted on October 19, 2013December 25, 2013 by timbatchelder

Here are the top 5 cities for computer science jobs
Christina Farr, venturebeat.com

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If you’re fortunate enough to posess a computer science degree, or have picked up coding skills on your own time, you have the option to live and work virtually anywhere in the world.

But in certain cities, tech…

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Check out VentureBeat’s new education channel (venturebeat.com)
How LinkedIn is using data to help you find the right career (venturebeat.com)
If Redstone’s tech is real, we’ll have cheap and ultrafast wireless Internet everywhere (venturebeat.com)

ReconJet creates Google glass competitor with Apple connections

Posted on September 29, 2013December 24, 2013 by timbatchelder

Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection
John Koetsier, venturebeat.com

Google Glass competitor Recon Jet, which bills itself as the Google Glass for athletes and professionals, has secured an investment from Intel Capital.

In perhaps bigger news, the company announced that is has already shipped 50,000…

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Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection (venturebeat.com)
Competitors of Google Glass.. (virtual3dtravelresearch.wordpress.com)
Video Shows How Hilariously Awful It Could Be To Wear ‘Microsoft Glass’ (businessinsider.com)

Why healthcare needs Apple

Posted on July 26, 2013December 21, 2013 by timbatchelder

Why health care needs Apple
Christina Farr, venturebeat.com

Apple has a huge opportunity to innovate in digital health.

The Silicon Valley technology giant has yet to confirm any new health and fitness gadgets — including its hotly anticipated “iWatch.” If you were hoping yesterday’…

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Is Apple Moving Into Digital Health? (inc.com)
Samsung Smart Watch May Have a Long Way to Go (technologyreview.com)

Visualizing how you will die

Posted on November 6, 2012March 31, 2013 by timbatchelder

(via What do people die of? Mortality rates and data for every cause of death in 2011 visualised | News | guardian.co.uk)

Information is Beautiful on how we die (guardian.co.uk)
How We All Die, Visualized (gizmodo.com)
The visual system as economist: Neural resource allocation in visual adaptation (medicalxpress.com)
Data visualization startup Visual.ly grabs another $2M to take on ad agencies … (venturebeat.com)
Google Glass Early Adopters Want To Build Education, Healthcare, Accessibility & Safety Apps (techcrunch.com)

Making housing more adaptable: one experiment in Hong Kong

Posted on May 15, 2009August 22, 2012 by timbatchelder

This creative experiment reveals how in our increasingly resource constrained world, 344 square feet can be made to feel much bigger through adaptable design

On Location – One Room Configured 24 Ways – NYTimes.com.

Hong Kong – Most expensive city to live in the world : 1 July 2012 (internationalcostofliving.com)
Hong Kong – Where East meets the West – Hong Kong, China (travelpod.com)
The other side of Hong Kong’s boom (edition.cnn.com)
Hong Kong is the best city to live in, new ranking system finds (cwhk.wordpress.com)
Small Villages Are Saving the “Airspace” in the New Territories, Hong Kong (kamsdesign.wordpress.com)
What’s More Important: Green Behavior or Green Products? (elocal.com)
The other side of Hong Kong’s boom (aytacgok.wordpress.com)
The way we’ll live next (telegraph.co.uk)

Techmeme: cutting edge trend spotting

Posted on August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder

Techmeme.

We’re not sure what kind of secret sauce Gabe Rivera uses to find stories for his TechMeme news aggregator (he simply says the site uses a “software agent“), but what we do know is that TechMeme brilliantly unearths the hottest news stories.

Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera interviewed by The Verge (nextlevelofnews.com)
Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera weighs in on Guy Adams’ Twitter suspension (twitchy.com)
Building a Better Techmeme (launch.co)
Scripting News for 8/2/2008 (scripting.wordpress.com)
Cheers to Mediagazer: read mode facilitation (zemanta.com)
The downside to being well-known (worldcadaccess.typepad.com)
The Drill Down 245: OffLive (preview) (thedrilldown.com)
We’re entering a golden age of news geekery (marshallk.com)
Don’t Just Publish a Magazine, Build a Magazine Rack (hubspot.com)

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