The Writers' Cafe

The Writers' Cafe: "Ahavas Israel Passaic NJ, Rabbi Eisenman made the brief but interesting comment to punctuate an aspect of the Daf, here it is not quite verbatim I believe we may have been in the one star volume of Kiddushin “Everyone talks about get rich quick schemeshere the gemmorah talks about how to get poor quickly. The passage being introduced was explaining how one can very quickly become poor by not following halacha."

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Outside In

Outside In: "Friday, November 06, 2009

Lennon and the social web

Yesterday, I gave a talk on how social media can be used within a business environment. It was fun, and exhausting. And apparently I still wave my hands too much and cover my face when I'm trying to make a point. The joys of how others see us.

And today, I came across this clip on Yoko Okono's site. And I thought: can you imagine what John Lennon would have done if he'd had access to the social web, like we have today?

Put the right tools at the disposal of creatives, dreamers, heretics and doers. And watch the world change."

Smarterer Raises $1.25M To Prove You’re Good At Anything In 60 Seconds Or Less

Smarterer Raises $1.25M To Prove You’re Good At Anything In 60 Seconds Or Less: "Smarterer has raised $1.25 million from True Ventures and Google Ventures, with participation from angels including Mark Gerson, Shikhar Ghosh, Scott Kurnit, Peter Lehrman, Thomas Lehrman, and Dharmesh Shah, among others. And tonight the service is opening in an invite-only private beta (more on that in a moment).

Smarterer’s product revolves around a fairly straightforward theory: it doesn’t take a lot of time to gauge if someone is competent in a given subject. In fact, Smarterer thinks it can determine your proficiency in just about anything in 60 seconds and 10 multiple choice questions."

Smarterer Raises $1.25M To Prove You’re Good At Anything In 60 Seconds Or Less

Smarterer Raises $1.25M To Prove You’re Good At Anything In 60 Seconds Or Less: "Smarterer has raised $1.25 million from True Ventures and Google Ventures, with participation from angels including Mark Gerson, Shikhar Ghosh, Scott Kurnit, Peter Lehrman, Thomas Lehrman, and Dharmesh Shah, among others. And tonight the service is opening in an invite-only private beta (more on that in a moment).

Smarterer’s product revolves around a fairly straightforward theory: it doesn’t take a lot of time to gauge if someone is competent in a given subject. In fact, Smarterer thinks it can determine your proficiency in just about anything in 60 seconds and 10 multiple choice questions."

2020 via time machine: chips, devices, & tech — Tech News and Analysis

2020 via time machine: chips, devices, & tech — Tech News and Analysis: "keynoting the inaugural IEEE Technology Time Machine Symposium last week in Hong Kong, where I listened to the world’s leading academics, engineers, executives, and government officials project what the world will look like in 2020. Their predictions were based on revolutionary technologies for processing, sensors, and displays becoming integrated into global systems that can do everything from enhance the human experience to improve environmental sustainability."

What Tumblr's Success Means For The Future Of Blogs, Twitter | Fast Company

What Tumblr's Success Means For The Future Of Blogs, Twitter | Fast Company: "Tumblr has just surpassed the 20.7 million blogs hosted by WordPress--explosive growth since it only hosted around 7 million blogs as recently as January. Exponential growth like this means it's probably just the beginning of many record-breaking events.
WordPress, like peer Drupal, has the air of a 'professional' blog-hosting site, compared with other offerings like Blogger, because it has extensive controls and complexity, it takes a little getting used to,"

Cultural Evolution and the Impending Singularity « Replicated Typo

Cultural Evolution and the Impending Singularity « Replicated Typo: "Although the exact pattern is unpredictable, there are statistical properties which are important for the functionality of the system which are reproducible.  These include the percentage of nodes and overall topology.  These are the things that scientists should be studying.  In terms of Evolutionary Linguistics, this translates into phenomena like the effects of transmission bottlenecks and the relationship between social structure and language structure.

This is cool enough.  However, these balls-in-a-petri-dish can learn."