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Google+ Has Reached a Tipping Point
Well, it was a good run.
Google+ was a fantastic concept and has been my social platform of choice since its 2011 inception as we transitioned from Google Buzz. The Real Name policy was the secret sauce. Plussers and Commenters were required to use their real names and have real profiles describing their real talents and real positions. There was honest conversation. It made sense to spend valuable time creating relationships with actual, real professionals. And then the policy was dropped.
Today, after my Google Notification bell was oddly silent for the past weeks, it started ringing again. But it only rang to notify me that the majority of comments to my recent posts were automatically hidden by the Suspected Spam filter. And the Filter was doing a fantastic job... a majority of bots, spammers, fake accounts, dating sites, and political vitriol.
I'm headed over to LinkedIn. At least for the moment their historical need for business profiles acts as an ex officio real name policy. To those entrepreneurs who want to create a successful social network, start with a Real Name Policy and stick to your guns.
I wish all of my many Google+ colleagues the best. And to the Google+ team of fantastic creatives and engineers, I hope you find leadership in this rudderless business space.
-Bill =]
Well, it was a good run.
Google+ was a fantastic concept and has been my social platform of choice since its 2011 inception as we transitioned from Google Buzz. The Real Name policy was the secret sauce. Plussers and Commenters were required to use their real names and have real profiles describing their real talents and real positions. There was honest conversation. It made sense to spend valuable time creating relationships with actual, real professionals. And then the policy was dropped.
Today, after my Google Notification bell was oddly silent for the past weeks, it started ringing again. But it only rang to notify me that the majority of comments to my recent posts were automatically hidden by the Suspected Spam filter. And the Filter was doing a fantastic job... a majority of bots, spammers, fake accounts, dating sites, and political vitriol.
I'm headed over to LinkedIn. At least for the moment their historical need for business profiles acts as an ex officio real name policy. To those entrepreneurs who want to create a successful social network, start with a Real Name Policy and stick to your guns.
I wish all of my many Google+ colleagues the best. And to the Google+ team of fantastic creatives and engineers, I hope you find leadership in this rudderless business space.
-Bill =]
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The Ears Have It
A prototype earbud can detect facial expressions and convert them into smartphone controls, like answering a phone call when you wink or launching Wikipedia when you open your mouth. It could be used by people with impaired movement or as a hands-free tool for drivers.
A prototype earbud can detect facial expressions and convert them into smartphone controls, like answering a phone call when you wink or launching Wikipedia when you open your mouth. It could be used by people with impaired movement or as a hands-free tool for drivers.
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Godspeed, John Glenn
John Glenn, who was America's first astronaut to orbit the Earth, will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia today (April 6) and you can follow the service honoring the space pioneer, courtesy of NASA.
The NASA webcast of the Glenn memorial service will begin at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) and will be broadcast live on NASA TV, which you can see here, courtesy of NASA.
Glenn, the last surviving one of the Mercury program, died at age 95 in December. After his orbital flight in 1962, Glenn waited 36 years to get another chance to fly into space. He returned at age 77 on shuttle mission STS-95, performing research intended to learn more about how a senior's body responds to spaceflight.
John Glenn, who was America's first astronaut to orbit the Earth, will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia today (April 6) and you can follow the service honoring the space pioneer, courtesy of NASA.
The NASA webcast of the Glenn memorial service will begin at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) and will be broadcast live on NASA TV, which you can see here, courtesy of NASA.
Glenn, the last surviving one of the Mercury program, died at age 95 in December. After his orbital flight in 1962, Glenn waited 36 years to get another chance to fly into space. He returned at age 77 on shuttle mission STS-95, performing research intended to learn more about how a senior's body responds to spaceflight.
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Resonance Frequency Measures Sample Properties
The speaker vibrates the glass at its resonance frequency, which is a function of the overall mass of the tube. When a sample is pumped into the tube, the resonance frequency changes, allowing the sample's mass, density and volume to be calculated. The research expands a technique originally developed at MIT for weighing single cells. By opening this technique to larger samples, the research vastly increases its applications.
The speaker vibrates the glass at its resonance frequency, which is a function of the overall mass of the tube. When a sample is pumped into the tube, the resonance frequency changes, allowing the sample's mass, density and volume to be calculated. The research expands a technique originally developed at MIT for weighing single cells. By opening this technique to larger samples, the research vastly increases its applications.
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Designing for Humans
This may seem like a silly problem on the surface, but it reveals the complexity of user behavior–an important aspect of design that isn’t always utilized by designers. Users aren’t machines, and they don’t always act in the most efficient manner possible, even when it would be beneficial to everyone. You can design the perfect system and optimize it down to the second, but you can’t force people to use it that way.
This may seem like a silly problem on the surface, but it reveals the complexity of user behavior–an important aspect of design that isn’t always utilized by designers. Users aren’t machines, and they don’t always act in the most efficient manner possible, even when it would be beneficial to everyone. You can design the perfect system and optimize it down to the second, but you can’t force people to use it that way.
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Space Litter Clean-up Technology
“Several thousand new satellites are planned for launch into low Earth orbit in the next few years,” Kaplan said. “That will make the debris problem much worse. At some point, no one knows when, there will be so many collisions that we won’t be able to operate safely in low Earth orbit anymore.”
“Several thousand new satellites are planned for launch into low Earth orbit in the next few years,” Kaplan said. “That will make the debris problem much worse. At some point, no one knows when, there will be so many collisions that we won’t be able to operate safely in low Earth orbit anymore.”
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Google Develops the Tensor AI Language and a Chip to Processes It
Rather than double its data center footprint, Google instead built its own computer chip specifically for running deep neural networks, called the Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU. “It makes sense to have a solution there that is much more energy efficient,” says Norm Jouppi, one of the more than 70 engineers who worked on the chip. In fact, the TPU outperforms standard processors by 30 to 80 times in the TOPS/Watt measure, a metric of efficiency.
Rather than double its data center footprint, Google instead built its own computer chip specifically for running deep neural networks, called the Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU. “It makes sense to have a solution there that is much more energy efficient,” says Norm Jouppi, one of the more than 70 engineers who worked on the chip. In fact, the TPU outperforms standard processors by 30 to 80 times in the TOPS/Watt measure, a metric of efficiency.
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Dance Dance Convolution
Scientists have taught a neural network to choreograph Dance Dance Revolution levels
Creating levels for video game franchise Dance Dance Revolution is a time-consuming task. The step charts used by the game are essentially choreographic scores, instructing players where to place their feet in time with the music. Usually they’re written by hand, either by the game’s developers or fans using open-source DDR port StepMania. Now, though, computer engineers have created a quicker way to generate step charts for any song — using the power of neural networks. In a paper published this week (with the quite brilliant title Dance Dance Convolution), a trio of researchers from the University of California describe training a neural network to generate new step charts. Neural networks study data to analyze patterns and then create similar-looking outputs, and in this case, there was an abundant source of data in the form of fan-written step charts.
Creating levels for video game franchise Dance Dance Revolution is a time-consuming task. The step charts used by the game are essentially choreographic scores, instructing players where to place their feet in time with the music. Usually they’re written by hand, either by the game’s developers or fans using open-source DDR port StepMania. Now, though, computer engineers have created a quicker way to generate step charts for any song — using the power of neural networks. In a paper published this week (with the quite brilliant title Dance Dance Convolution), a trio of researchers from the University of California describe training a neural network to generate new step charts. Neural networks study data to analyze patterns and then create similar-looking outputs, and in this case, there was an abundant source of data in the form of fan-written step charts.
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Infrared LI-FI Enables 42-Gbps Streaming
Researchers have come up with a new type of li-fi that uses infrared light instead, and it’s reportedly already cracked 40 gigabits per second (Gbps) in early testing. If you look at the world’s fastest wifi router having a speed of 2.167 Gbps
Researchers have come up with a new type of li-fi that uses infrared light instead, and it’s reportedly already cracked 40 gigabits per second (Gbps) in early testing. If you look at the world’s fastest wifi router having a speed of 2.167 Gbps
This technology will change our LAN and wireless environment with mind blowing speed up to 40 Gbps
till now its on testing but sooner or latter wifi become a old technology just like HDD over SDD
till now its on testing but sooner or latter wifi become a old technology just like HDD over SDD
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IBM Watson and Soul Machines Present Embodied Cognition
Placing a Human Face on Machine Intelligence.
Placing a Human Face on Machine Intelligence.
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