
Month: November 2013
Next level Mimicry

Each wing of Goniurellia tridens carries a precisely detailed image of an ant-like insect, complete with 6 legs, 2 antennae, a head, thorax and tapered abdomen.
that’s the best mimicry i have ever seen.
Up all night to get data
as good a research anthem as any: we’re up all night to get data
Ben Goertzel on AGI
i have been observing ben’s progress for ~10 years. he is aiming much higher than most AI efforts.
A better constitution
There are 30 countries that have adopted American-style systems. All of them have succumbed to the nightmare of constitutional crisis: political violence, revolution, coup, and worse at one time or another, often repeatedly.
we could do a lot better. we could also do a lot worse, for example if the religious nutcases got a chance to bring about jesusland.
Whitehat
The Internet Bug Bounty: Rewarding friendly hackers who contribute to a more secure internet.
so if i submit some iptable patches to block XP machines from the internet at the ISP level, i can collect a reward from microsoft?
Yoga for Zombies
yoga never did it for me, but it clearly works for zombies!
Simulating future cities
meh i think it looks awesome.
Cities of Tomorrow extends this tension to a dark, satirical future. You’re technically still mayor of a metropolis, but in the case of the gleaming downtown scenario, the true arbiter of power is a small organization called The Academy. Tucked below the elevated trains and glittering skyscrapers, The Academy is basically a publicly funded think tank whose sole mission is to push the boundaries of urban infrastructure. The Academy develops all of the city’s technology, and the more public funding it receives, the quicker it innovates. The catch is that all Academy-developed technology has to run on ControlNet, a computing system owned and operated by The Academy.

NYPL Drone
250x faster OS updates
an “OS” update to chrome (1B installs) now takes 1 week, upgrading to win8 (100M sold in 6 months) is 250x slower.