Archive for March, 2007

Jeff Hawkins, Nuementa and Hierarchical Temporal Memory

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Alex Iskold writes about Jeff Hawkins, his Numenta AI outfit and the theory of Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM).

Justin.tv — Too Popular

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

I finally decided to check out justin.tv where a guy wears a head-mounted cam 24 hours a day. Here’s a good intro to justin.tv.

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Netflix Reqires Microsoft Internet Explorer for “Watch Now”

Monday, March 26th, 2007

I joined Netflix about a week ago. They sure do ship movies quickly!

Tonight I wanted to “Watch Now” their name for on-demand streaming video.

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UbuntoClips — Ubuntu Linux Videos

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

UbuntuClips is a collection of how-to videos for those new to Ubuntu Linux.

On Living Life

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Sheila Lennon writes: “If you spend your life afraid of dying, you aren’t really living: you’re a wimp. Because death is inevitable, but not, for most of us, right now.”

Brett Taylor’s UrlTea — Short URLs

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

UrlTea by Brett Tayor translates long, tedious URLs to make them shorter. It’s similar to TinyUrl, but slicker and more powerful. [Via Twitter Chris Pirillo]

Chad Dickerson on Bracketology

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Chad Dickerson writes about The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything.

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Rex Hammock — There Is No Twitter Debate

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Rex Hammock argues there is no Twitter debate. He’s right.

Jeff Atwood’s Six Lists — Programming Ideas (Each a List of 10 things)

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Jeff Atwood presents his selection of of six especially interesting lists, each giving ten programing ideas. Yes 6 x 10 = 60 cool concepts or precepts. We are blessed.

Running GoggleTalk Gadget in Firefox Sidebar

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Steve Rubel used Twitter to figure out how to run GoggleTalk Gadget in your Firefox sidebar.

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The California Salmon Crisis

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Tom Chandler writes about An Excellent Overview of California’s Salmon Crisis.

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Jeff Barr Experiments With Self Scheduling

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Jeff Barr of Amazon writes about a trip he’s planning where people he does not know can schedule him for meetings, dinners and such at places they select.

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