Month: August 2014
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Is Google harming its search results with its online ad business model?
A few years ago, the internet was a lot simpler. Information was to be found on websites, for the most part. Shure, some obscure ftp and telnet sites, some chat channels, and a lot of newsgroups. Google just had to crawl usenet plus the http space, index all the information it found, and make sure…
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Limits of AI – inklings of
I adore Jeff Jonas work for IBM, and his take on Big Data. So from time to time I check his blog. I stumbled upon his update on the G2 sensemaking engine a while ago. As I reread it today a thought struck me: One of the limits to AI stems not from the algorithms…
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Linking – a nice mnemonic trick
Have you ever been in a situation, where you had to make sure you remembered something? Like “take my passport with me when I leave my home”? Usually saying “Don’t forget your passport!” will not work or worse set you up for forgetting. What to do? Luckily I have a nice little procedure for you that…