Month: June 2014

The food4patriots scam

The interesting innovation in Reboot’s Patriot Alliance is that they’re not selling a product wrapped in ideological garb; they’re selling ideology itself. “I’ve never been so passionate about anything in my life,” the Bates character promises, pitching what’s essentially a conservative newsletter with scattered survivalist tips. Judging from the writing in the letter, it seems like Baler has struck gold again. “Bates’” fearmongering about Obama’s America is nearly indistinguishable from some of the red meat that frequently appears in the respectable kind of conservative outlet.

reminds me of the health section of whole foods

remember aibo?

Softbank has unveiled a robot called Pepper, which can read human emotions. It uses an “emotional engine” and a cloud-based artificial intelligence system that allows it to analyse gestures, expressions and voice tones. People could communicate with it “just like they would with friends and family” and it could perform various tasks.

McLeod’s Daughters

The award-winning Australian television series McLeod’s Daughters aired from 2001 – 2009. A drama, the story begins by following the lives of half sisters Claire and Tess McLeod, reunited after they inherit a vast outback cattle farm (“Drover’s Run”), that has been handed down through the men in their family for generations. 224 episodes were produced, and all are available on YouTube.

V.C. Firm Names AI To Board of Directors

Humans are emotional and subjective. They can make mistakes, but unlike the machines they can make brilliant intuitive decisions. Machines like VITAL use only logic. The intuition of the human investors together with machine’s logic will give a perfect collaborative team. The risk of the mistake will be minimized.

IOS intents

it looks like apple is bringing android intents to ios. in truth they were first with NextStep Services but that had to go by the wayside for business strategy reasons. i’m glad they’re back.