digest 4-1-11
In the news today, mattmaroon feels that google will become an AI company. He goes on to list his (day)dreams and frankly, I like them.
Mainly , driverless cars - we already have those , but not yet in a large institutionalised way. This means lots of time for yourself, distance doesn't matter as automated cars can go fast coz every other car on the road has a robot driver which follows the rules. you can get your kids cars because they are not driving, you can get drunk all the time because your car's like a taxi now.... nice. Something like this needs a giant amount of influence - it's not just money, you need laws to work for you. This should keep the auto lobby busy.
Duckduckgo has a site up explaining how your sexual problems and financial woes, as entered in the google search box become visible to people who you want to hide them from. Also, a tall lanky google engineer used search data to snoop on four minors whom he met. Differently, another google engineer got a teenager out of jail. The kid was arrested for filming a cop beating up a teen.
An interesting link that showed up is this : a test that can spot a single stray cancer cell in a BILLION may be available at your doctor's soon. It's from J&J. This test does 'liquid' biopsy and might do away with the long needle one. (Will HouseMD lose its charm if House's pawns aren't forced to poke patients with long long needles, sometimes twice in the same episode ... I'm thinking they'll move on to full limb amputations next to keep up the wtf )
Also, Thomas Kuhn did something important in his 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'. People say it affects how you/we think.
The zenhabits guy lists the top 2 habits of creatives - 1. constructive solitude 2. participation(?)
George Orwell calls Indian tea as 'feels wiser braver and more optimistic after drinking it'
read more here
Things we laugh at:
1. misplacement : a zebra in a doctor's coat
2. schadenfraude : bad things that happen to others and that we feel won't happen to us
3. absurdity,stretching of reality beyond bounds : superset of misplacement
More as the lone reporter in our office surfs at work.
Mainly , driverless cars - we already have those , but not yet in a large institutionalised way. This means lots of time for yourself, distance doesn't matter as automated cars can go fast coz every other car on the road has a robot driver which follows the rules. you can get your kids cars because they are not driving, you can get drunk all the time because your car's like a taxi now.... nice. Something like this needs a giant amount of influence - it's not just money, you need laws to work for you. This should keep the auto lobby busy.
Duckduckgo has a site up explaining how your sexual problems and financial woes, as entered in the google search box become visible to people who you want to hide them from. Also, a tall lanky google engineer used search data to snoop on four minors whom he met. Differently, another google engineer got a teenager out of jail. The kid was arrested for filming a cop beating up a teen.
An interesting link that showed up is this : a test that can spot a single stray cancer cell in a BILLION may be available at your doctor's soon. It's from J&J. This test does 'liquid' biopsy and might do away with the long needle one. (Will HouseMD lose its charm if House's pawns aren't forced to poke patients with long long needles, sometimes twice in the same episode ... I'm thinking they'll move on to full limb amputations next to keep up the wtf )
Also, Thomas Kuhn did something important in his 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'. People say it affects how you/we think.
The zenhabits guy lists the top 2 habits of creatives - 1. constructive solitude 2. participation(?)
George Orwell calls Indian tea as 'feels wiser braver and more optimistic after drinking it'
read more here
Things we laugh at:
1. misplacement : a zebra in a doctor's coat
2. schadenfraude : bad things that happen to others and that we feel won't happen to us
3. absurdity,stretching of reality beyond bounds : superset of misplacement
More as the lone reporter in our office surfs at work.
posted by yesbob at Tuesday, January 04, 2011
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