Psychic thinking, technically of course

There are some articles which I usually skim thru, and read only the interesting parts.   But here is an article which is not only well written, but also indicates that there are things other than money to think about.   Do read this: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1843839,00.html   Waiting to read the book,  

Some years back we found a flash video known as EPIC 2014. After a real long time I again decided to watch that all over.   In case you have not seen, see : http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/   Also they have a sequel with some corrections, called as EPIC 2015.     Enjoy maadi!!!!  

So one of the points I pointed in the previous post was “We need a single point of entry for all the data which is flowing from you to the outside world”.   Consider Google, which provides the following -           they have a Orkut, social networking site, thru which they have a list of your close friends (It would be pretty simple to ask you how you know that person), so they understand what kind of relationship you have with your friends. -           they provide you a mail service, so they know whom you contact most/least often. -           They have your chat (talk), so they know whom you communicate instantly with. (this + the social networking site’s scrap feature) -           The OpenSocial was initiated which allowed sharing friends info (of course it could not be replicated) across members of the OpenSocial forum. -           They have provided an RSS reader, so they know what you read. (some kind of replacement for newspapers) -           They know what you

A few of us regularly have these arguments (which of course ends up with physical damage to various human bodies), about artificial intelligence. As to whether any computer will ever beat the “ Turing test ”. Or will that be an insatiable dream.   My friends feel that the computer will never be able to decipher patterns which it has never previously seen. ( What I mean here is if a computer is given a sequence, and is expected to predict the next item in the sequence, if the computer has never seen the pattern it will fail.)   But here I insist that humans also work on a similar pattern recognition algo. So if you see a pattern which you have not seen, you will ask your friend and learn. And this learning is what I feel is the actual problem. A kid for example, does not understand anything when it is born. Then the parents/surroundings teach it. It falls, learns from the mistake and the next time it comes across the same scenario it takes a different course of action.   D

Tried out Google chrome…. And my only response is, I am addicted!!!!   I had started off expecting that I won’t stick to it for long, considering that I am pretty happy with FF3. But after using Google Chrome, I realized the advantages of having a separate process for each tab. Yes it does not have the add ins, but I am sure those will follow.   Even IE8 beta 2 takes a couple of seconds to open a new tab (with no content displayed, except their usual about:tabs). Chrome opens up a tab, and also displays an intelligent page, in less than a second :O.   These guys know how to build a browser!!!   Things I love to do with this browser. -           I enjoy draggin a tab out of the window…. The dragging UI is pretty cool -           The rendering engine is pretty fast.   The only problem I seem to be facing is, I am not able to open google s applications such as Google reader. (When I try to open google.com/reader, it directs me to the login page but does not show