So, if you go to street view on google maps, on the top left there is a “clock” icon under the address box. Click it, and you will see a timeline of every time a google street view car has recorded that (more…)
The disruption of driverless cars melts my brain.
Sitting in a car and not holding a steering wheel would trip me out… but it’s only about control, right? It’s so much safer, but like flying… lack of control freaks us out. I cannot wait to sleep (more…)
Was the Nest buy overvalued? Google’s Internet for Things for Things.
No. Internet of Things. “An internet for things”. This is about google’s hardware struggles. Nest has some great designers (people heard of the ipod?), but it’s not about that. It’s about the other internet, (more…)
Majel, Artificial Intelligence, Mind Control, Downloading knowledge, Data Exhaust, & modern scientific ethical complexities
People are concerned. It used to be a world of just *DO* science without our full awareness of the consequences. It was just a general thirst for knowledge coupled with a panic of discovery driven by a primal human capitalism. I believe this led to be the blood on his hands, of which Oppenheimer spoke about. *Now*, there is an awareness that scientific discovery has very real consequences now and in the immediate future, while we prepare to innovate ourselves towards perpetuity. Like Nellie said in Contact… if we can get through our technological immaturity, and learn without killing ourselves in the meantime, the human race has the capacity to be infinite. What we look like at the end of it, however, is just what these tiny conversations are currently about. The current ethical issues will be forgotten in time, and our future selves won’t understand how much we cared what we become… but the nature of evolution is as murky as how human the human race will be when we get to the finish line. I am hoping distant relatives intone a slight humanity at the end of time, while being evolved enough to withstand the infinite crispness of entropy, moving through a frozen time where energy has ebbed to a blackened figment. No one beats the outcome of this universe, but I still have hope a vestige of the human race will be party to it.
15 Interview Questions from Google that will make you feel stupid
Some are crazy, some are interesting, all are weird. Â They can’t be legal. ha. Enjoy. I have them listed after the jump thingy…. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus? How (more…)
Future War, Future Us
The internet…. ads, yes. Monetize, yes…. now the internet is filled with endless clutter because of attempts to drive revenue and monetize…. booking engines, shopping sites, etc. Think of tripadvisor, (more…)
Google’s Search Algorithm is relatively autonomous
Skynet jokes aside, this thing is basically autonomous and will likely become relatively self aware due to data exhaust. The quote at the bottom is hard to comprehend for me. Discuss the implications (more…)
Why gory “Enjoy the Plants” pinpoints the problems with Google’s rapidly failing algorithm
The point is, if you search a totally benign term: “Enjoy the Plants”, with or without quotes, and click on the first link – —— you will find something wholly unrelated to plants. *THIS (more…)