policy by simulation / gaming. nice thinking on their part. you’d hope that mouthbreathers could learn advanced strategies and concepts through gaming, since traditional schooling has failed them.
Tag: analysis
Job Automation
By 2030, what kinds of capabilities will computers have; how well will those capabilities prepare them to do jobs currently done by humans; and what proportion of the workforce might be displaced or rendered unemployable? The results are rather scary. After looking at trends in machine vision, speech, reasoning, and movement, and estimating how important these are for doing various kinds of work, the author estimates that displacement rates could be over 80% in some fields– sales, administrative support, food preparation, and personal care. These are also the sectors that employ the largest number of people. The safest fields for humans? Law (6%), medicine (10%), science (10%), and engineering (11%)– fields which currently employ the smallest number of people.
ha! the sectors of the economy that are just adding transaction cost but not creating anything will be replaced by computers by > 80%. invest in warm bodies at your own peril.
Open Source Attention Deficit Disorder Measurement
Paul Kedrosky allegedly average shot length is decreasing again. i had thought we hit a minimum in the heyday of mtv
The Power of Stupid
“But at any given moment, the majority of resources in a capitalist system are being pushed over a cliff by morons. This fascinates me. And it’s clearly the reason that humans rule the earth. We found a system to harness the power of stupid.”
Super Crunchers and the End of Intuition
more and more decisions are made based on data, not fear. expect professions that are mostly hand waving or asspullery to decline (marketing)
The Conspiracy Boom
conspiracy theories are everywhere because the means to distribute information far outstrips the access to good information. cue the transparent society
Map API comparison
Yahoo! offered the fastest performance, the smallest total download, and the smallest memory footprint in my tests. Microsoft’s maps took a half-second longer to download and display than either of its competitors. Google had the highest total file count due to its mapping tile behavior.
we just did some optimizations, so that won’t be true for long.
HTML5 parser profiling
another problem benefitting from a large data set: parser optimization. by looking at the frequency distribution of markup constructs, you can infer parser optimizations.
OECD wiki?
the OECD is thinking of creating a wiki for the presentation and discussion of international, national and local initiatives aimed at developing indicators of societal progress.
BIG win for the dataweb
Top Movies
not many recent movies anywhere near the top
Gregor J. Rothfuss 