What is Moore’s Law of Internet Latency?
As long as Internet users do not pay for the absolute (integrated over time) amount of data bandwidth which they consume (bytes per month), Internet serviceAquality (latency) will continue to be variable and often poor. via
What's life's single most important question? AThere are many perfectly worthy ones a questions about family, relationships, work, love a but when it comes to charting our futures, one question rises above the rest. AWhat's your passion?
Having daily or weekly goals allows you to actually complete them and get those small victories at the end of each day or week, it keeps you motivated and in track towards that main goal, yourAcommon new year's resolution goal.
My thinking might have been wrong though because Google isn't a search company. Right now they're a product development company (and generally a poor one) funded by search. In the future, though, they're going to transition to an artificial intelligence company. They're already halfway there. Search is just the problem they first applied AI to, and the one they've grown to dominate. In the future they will have much bigger fish to fry. While Facebook is still trying to figure how to make money off of people sharing pictures, Google may be revolutionizing one industry after another by pushing the bounds of what software can do.
A question for historians is how to measure and compare the standard of living experienced by people in different historical settings. Is it possible to arrive at credible estimates of the standard of living in the Roman Empire, medieval Burgundy, nineteenth-century Britain, and twentieth-century Illinois? Can we say with any confidence that Romans had a higher (or lower) standard of living than a twelfth-century Burgundian?
Hanson on the Technological Singularity
Robin Hanson of GMU talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the idea of a technological singularity-a sudden, large increase in the rate of growth due to technological change. Hanson argues that it is plausible that a change in technology could lead to world output doubling every two weeks rather than every 15 years, as it does currently. Hanson suggests a likely route to such a change is to port the human brain into a computer-based emulation. Such a breakthrough in artificial intelligence would lead to an extraordinary increase in productivity creating enormous wealth and radically changing the returns to capital and labor. The conversation looks at the feasibility of the process and the intuition behind the conclusions. Hanson argues for the virtues of such a world.
Twitter Lessons From Newark Mayor Cory Booker
Booker first joined Twitter in 2008 and has tweeted more than 5,000 times since and gained more than a million followers. During the storm and its aftermath, Booker demonstrated these best practices for Twitter.
1. Do more than just push information. If that's all your tweets offer, you might as well just have an anonymous Website. As thisATime article on Booker explains, other city mayors either don't tweet, or their tweeting during the blizzard consisted only of impersonal info. Booker shared information in his feed tooabut that wasn't all.
2. Respond to people. Don't use Twitter like television; use it like instant messaging. The advantage of the tool is its interactivity. A good number of Booker's blizzard-related tweets are responses to others who have tweeted to him or retweets (like forwarding an email) of what others have said to him. This helps demonstrate that he's really behind the account rather than a PR person or intern, and helps to garner trust.
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Posted: January 3rd, 2011
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Still debating whether this is the year to take an outsized risk, to make a strong decision, or whether "start a company" should be your New Year's Resolution? AWhat's stopping you? What are you afraid of? AIs it better to be embarrassed or to do nothing worth judging? AIs it better to make an argument and be wrong or to be complacent and thoughtless? AIs it better to put your savings in the stock market or bet it on yourself? AIs it better to try changing the world and fail miserably or to just talk about changing the world? AIs it better to stretch beyond your abilities and confront your limitations or to never know what you're capable of? AIs it better to take your shot and flame out spectacularly, or to never know whether you had a shot? AIt's better, even if you fail … … and what if you don't?
Liberals and conservatives may find themselves disagreeing on issues as wide-ranging as the future of the NHS, the UK’s involvement in Afghanistan and whether students should pay tuition fees at university, but could these differences be a result of different brain structures? New research commissioned by the Today Programme and led by Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow Professor Geraint Rees suggests that this may be so.