According to Hodjat, the system grabs unused computer power from “millions” of computer processors inside data centers, Internet cafes, and computer gaming centers operated by various companies in Asia and elsewhere. Its software engine, meanwhile, is based on evolutionary computation—the same genetics-inspired technique that plays into Aidyia’s system. “If we all die,” says Goertzel, a longtime […]
“What we are really concerned with when we invoke the “algorithmic” here is not the algorithm per se but the insertion of procedure into human knowledge and social experience. What makes something algorithmic is that it is produced by or related to an information system that is committed (functionally and ideologically) to the computational generation […]
Enter the rise of machine learning — programming computers to learn from data. With a good machine learning algorithm more data means more learning. Pedro Domingos of the University of Washington thinks of machine learning as the practical subset of artificial intelligence — the new hub of efforts to add intelligence to every facet of life. In his new […]
At the heart of their method, is a new technique developed at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and Microsoft research in Cambridge, UK, for classifying pictures according to the visual concepts that they contain. These concepts are called classemes and include everything from simple object description such as duck, frisbee, man, wheelbarrow to shades of […]
Perhaps the greatest challenge of the algorithm revolution is that as machines and the algorithms that drive them have become ever-more complex, we are rapidly losing our ability to understand how they work and anticipate unexpected behaviors and weaknesses. From just 145,000 lines of code to place humans on the moon in 1969 to more […]
Keeping the car safe is included as a standard feature, but keeping pedestrians safe isn’t. “It appears as if the car in this video is not equipped with Pedestrian detection,” said Volvo spokesperson Johan Larsson. “This is sold as a separate package.” “The pedestrian detection would likely have been deactivated due to the driver inactivating […]
Two silly bots are having a fun day chatting on twitter: When the Bank of America butts in: (source: The Atlantic )
We are told our lives are too fast, subject to the accelerating demand that we innovate more, work more, enjoy more, produce more, and consume more. That’s one familiar story. Another, stranger, story is told here: of those who think we haven’t gone fast enough. Instead of rejecting the increasing tempo of capitalist production they […]
Jean Baudrillard Ballard’s Crash From the classical (and even the cybernetic) viewpoint, technology is an extension of the body. It is the evolved functional capacity of a human organism which allows it both to rival Nature and to triumphantly remold it in its own image. From Marx to McLuhan, one sees the same instrumentalist vision […]
“As Silicon Valley keeps corrupting our language with its endless glorification of disruption and efficiency – concepts at odds with the vocabulary of democracy – our ability to question the “how” of politics is weakened. Silicon Valley’s default answer to the how of politics is what I call solutionism: problems are to be dealt with […]
Microbiologists based in California have discovered bacteria that survive by eating pure electrons rather than food, bringing an entirely new method of existence to awareness and raising questions about possibilities for alien life. The ‘electric bacteria’ – as they have been dubbed by the team that discovered them – take energy from rocks and metal […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Boston-based dark pool operator eBX LLC with failing to protect the confidential trading information of its subscribers and failing to disclose to all subscribers that it allowed an outside firm to use their confidential trading information. “Dark pools are dark for a reason: buyers and sellers expect confidentiality […]
The Market in Numbers US Equities volumes: 5 and 10 billion shares per day 1.2 – 2.5 Trillion shares per year Annual volume: USD 30 – 70 trillion At least 30% of the volume is algorithmic: 360 a 750 billion shares/year Typical large “sell side’’ broker trades between 1 and 5 USD Tri per year […]
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http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/11/5891349/50-caliber-bullet-direction-darpa
Cynk is an apparently non-existent social media company whose penny-stock shares jumped in value by more than 25,000 percent—a better return, as Business Insider notes, than someone who bought Apple stock in 1980 would see if they were still holding those shares. During the heyday of 1990s internet stock speculation, curmudgeons could rest assured that human-powered greed was fueling […]
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-is-what-darpa-thinks-the-future-of-war-will-look-like
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/06/google_skybox_titan_aerospace_acquisitions_why_it_needs_satellites_and_drones.html
Ahead of the Tape (source accessed 3 Dec 2013) “amateurs turning their financial ovens to high and then leaving the house unattended” Jeremy Bogalsky Quants-R-Us (accessed 3 Dec 2013) “Such is the focus on speed that even location counts. Servers positioned nearest to a trading venue can shave milliseconds of the timing of a trade […]
“…and instead uses rules and statistics to increase your odds of success”
Rent a Bloomberg terminal Here are a few powerful public functions Wall Streeters told us they couldn’t live without. BMAP (Bloomberg Map) — This is a function like Google Earth but faster, easier to use, and more clear. It’s especially useful for anyone that deals with energy and commodities because you can get alerts on […]
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