Tag: machine
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TED Talk: Jennings v Watson
Deep Blue versus Kasparov was an pivotal moment for me. At the time I was playing lots of chess on the computer. (And usually losing.) So the prospect the best player in the world cannot beat a computer was a depressing prospect. Â Maybe it is a sign of how much I had matured (or immatured) […]
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TED Talk: We Are All Cyborgs
Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on “external brains” (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives. But will these machines ultimately connect or conquer us? Case offers surprising insight into our cyborg selves.
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Superhero Economy
Watched a number of episodes of Justice League Unlimited today. Buildings, roads, and machines get pulverized by the violent actions. Someone rebuilds all the destroyed stuff because in the next episode, everything is pristine to get pulverized again. So much rebuilding must suck for insurance premiums. However, it does ensure lots of construction employment, material […]
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The Glorious Four Eyed Chrome
A site called The Hero Factory lets you make your own comic character. This is the one it gave me. There are other similar sites: Hero Machine FaceYourManga MyHero Originally uploaded by Ezra F
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Digital Legacy
A book on time management in talking about long-term goal planning suggests we define the legacy we wish to leave. Coming from academia, I typically think of a legacy as a name on a building, an applicant with an alum for a parent, or a scholarship. However, the artifacts left behind by previous cultures are […]
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Anthropomorphism
Do you talk about computers, software, or web sites as manifesting human-like behaviors? Personally, I have. At work, we manage several machines who collectively provide the GeorgiaVIEW service. When a machine is completely unresponsive, then we refer to it as having died. When a machine stops a performance issue, we refer to it as happy. […]
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On the Fourth through Sixth Loops of Ready 2 Wear
I really have to stop listening to the same song played over and over. It may affect my thinking…. We had another node crash due to the Sun JVM issue. Our start script failed to make a file in /var so the node did not become fully operational as expected. While waiting for those with […]
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links for 2007-08-22
Garbage Collection in the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine (tags: java performance garbage-collection)
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links for 2007-08-17
Tuning Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) (tags: java performance tuning) Investigating Out of Memory and Memory Leak Pattern (tags: java bea performance tuning) Featured Download: Replace Microsoft Project with OpenProj – Lifehacker (tags: opensource projectmanagement)