Not a book but the novella “the machine stops” by E. M. Forster. I read this in the late nineties and it still pops up in my head frequently — especially in our age of the internet.
I found E M Forster’s novella “The Machine Stops” in the same league as the above: it is about the human condition, and technology is just a setup to talk about that.
An aside: the title is a great example of context sensitivity. On first glance, I interpreted the title as some serious bug in garbage collection algorithms/Systems (as in, they open some library that was an…
Remains to be seen how this impacts the US universities. Part of the incentive for the international students to choose the US over other countries for higher studies is because there are some seriously great…
Sent. First world problem admittedly.
This is fantastic. The exercises are non-trivial enough to be useful. One minor suggestion: if you can have the favicon set to your gopher, it can be great. Mine is a potentially narrow use case, but after logging in, I…
Serious question: what is an AI coprocessor technically? Some machine learnt models burned on a chip? Or some kind of a neural net with updatable weights?
In my experience, the notion of "change the world" has no age bar sadly. Also, "change the world" is often thrown about in arguably shallow contexts. But then look at how Facebook got started, and it is fair to say that…
Sorry I never visited back. Yes, google tried it with Hangouts. Internationally, you can use Hangouts for wifi calling through google voice, but that did not work in the US for some reason last I checked. I design/write…
Fragmented messaging/phone calls and inability to have "seamless" conversations. For example: WhatsApp, iMessages, google voice, SMS, etc. Also for phone calls: FaceTime audio, carrier routed calls, google voice, Vonage…
I am clueless about the right etiquette, but can anyone share some high quality publications in the similar vein? Mainly interested in "head content" that is not a book, but a set of relevant, contemporary articles…
I think FB does not have to be a PayPal, and there are many good reasons outlined in these comments already why that is a bad idea. However, it can become some kind of market place. It already knows user locality, it…
Interesting. I am wondering how this is going to be better/different than a smart search engine, or a travel/review site that may be entrenched in its space for a long time and may have a lot of UGC around places. E.g.…
Interesting concept. I started in the SF bay area in the US, and did not see anything. Then I zoomed out all the way, and Australia lit up with notes :-) Do you plan to add a timeline? It can be interesting to see…
Thank you. I was a little concerned when my MBP spewed out a list with this option. I tried a little look-up on why that is normal. From the manpage: When +L is followed by a number, only files having a link count less…
Not a book but the novella “the machine stops” by E. M. Forster. I read this in the late nineties and it still pops up in my head frequently — especially in our age of the internet.
I found E M Forster’s novella “The Machine Stops” in the same league as the above: it is about the human condition, and technology is just a setup to talk about that.
An aside: the title is a great example of context sensitivity. On first glance, I interpreted the title as some serious bug in garbage collection algorithms/Systems (as in, they open some library that was an…
Remains to be seen how this impacts the US universities. Part of the incentive for the international students to choose the US over other countries for higher studies is because there are some seriously great…
Sent. First world problem admittedly.
This is fantastic. The exercises are non-trivial enough to be useful. One minor suggestion: if you can have the favicon set to your gopher, it can be great. Mine is a potentially narrow use case, but after logging in, I…
Serious question: what is an AI coprocessor technically? Some machine learnt models burned on a chip? Or some kind of a neural net with updatable weights?
In my experience, the notion of "change the world" has no age bar sadly. Also, "change the world" is often thrown about in arguably shallow contexts. But then look at how Facebook got started, and it is fair to say that…
Sorry I never visited back. Yes, google tried it with Hangouts. Internationally, you can use Hangouts for wifi calling through google voice, but that did not work in the US for some reason last I checked. I design/write…
Sorry I never visited back. Yes, google tried it with Hangouts. Internationally, you can use Hangouts for wifi calling through google voice, but that did not work in the US for some reason last I checked. I design/write…
Fragmented messaging/phone calls and inability to have "seamless" conversations. For example: WhatsApp, iMessages, google voice, SMS, etc. Also for phone calls: FaceTime audio, carrier routed calls, google voice, Vonage…
I am clueless about the right etiquette, but can anyone share some high quality publications in the similar vein? Mainly interested in "head content" that is not a book, but a set of relevant, contemporary articles…
I think FB does not have to be a PayPal, and there are many good reasons outlined in these comments already why that is a bad idea. However, it can become some kind of market place. It already knows user locality, it…
Interesting. I am wondering how this is going to be better/different than a smart search engine, or a travel/review site that may be entrenched in its space for a long time and may have a lot of UGC around places. E.g.…
Interesting concept. I started in the SF bay area in the US, and did not see anything. Then I zoomed out all the way, and Australia lit up with notes :-) Do you plan to add a timeline? It can be interesting to see…
Thank you. I was a little concerned when my MBP spewed out a list with this option. I tried a little look-up on why that is normal. From the manpage: When +L is followed by a number, only files having a link count less…