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From the category archives:
Two days ago, Stephen Wolfram launched Wolfram|Alpha (if your last name was Wolfram you’d have an ego, too, even if you were smart, and apparently this guy is). What is Wolfram|Alpha? It’s a “computational knowledge engine.” Not a search engine, a COMPUTATIONAL KNOWLEDGE ENGINE. In other words, say you want to compare the GDPs of [...]
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Oh joy, while reading my 1283 feeds this morning, a great article at Read/Write Web jumped out at me. That’s because it’s the first to explain why, despite the absence of recreational substance abuse, my brain feels a mixture of drugged, speedy, flitty and fragmented all at once. There’s a name for this condition, and [...]
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My office at a large university exists in an industrial building we acquired from a bank several years ago. While a little bit of renovation was done, the concept of “big open room with cubicles done in creativity killing colors (drab grey and beige, anyone?) and no natural light” managed to be a mainstay of [...]
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