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Center for Collective Intelligence
Published on 18 Nov 2007 at 8:33 pm.
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Filed under Intelligent Systems, Internet, Philosophy, Research.
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is investigating the phenomenon of collective intelligence with the goal of improving collective decision making in social and business systems. They are working to devlop methodologies for quantifying and measuring collective intelligence.
Perhaps in the future we will be able to quantify and characterize the collective intelligence of ant colonies.
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Encyclopedia of Life
Published on 31 Oct 2007 at 2:32 am.
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Filed under Biology, Birds, Climate, Exploration, Green, Internet, Wildlife.
I recently learned of the project called “Encyclopedia of Life“, which endeavors to create an online encyclopedia featuring every known life form on Earth. From what I can see, this is going to be done in an open access manner.
Sample pages exist for the following organisms:
Death Cap Mushroom (Amanita Phalloides)
Rice (Oryza Sativa)
Yeti Crab (Kiwa Hirsuta)
and [...]
Pages in Blogs
Published on 19 Oct 2007 at 1:48 am.
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Filed under General, Internet, Note to Self, Quotations, Solutions.
Today I just discovered that blogs can have pages. These pages can be edited and maintained, but stand outside of the time-based thread.
I have started entering some of my favorite quotations.
http://www.huginn.com/knuth/blog/favorite-quotations/
I am not sure how to organize them, but we’ll see…
Enjoy,
Kevin Knuth
Wolfram Web Resources
Published on 17 Oct 2007 at 1:12 am.
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Filed under Computation, Entrepreneurship, Exploration, Fun, Information, Intelligent Systems, Internet, Mathematics, Research.
I received this brochure from Wolfram Research (Mathematica) describing their web resources. I am going to lose it… so I will remember it here in my Online Cortex.
wolfram.com
http://www.wolfram.com
Wolfram.com is updated regularly with information on new breakthroughs and developments for Mathematica users and technology enthusiasts around the world. This site features demonstrations and videos on the [...]
Powerset Labs Launches
Published on 21 Sep 2007 at 1:26 am.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Internet, Inventions, Research, Software, Solutions.
Powerset launches Powerset Labs at TechCrunch40. Powerset is developing a natural language search engine that interprets the meaning of your query to return the results you are looking for. See their blog here.
I worked with Barney Pell at NASA Ames before he formed Powerset. I must say that I am really looking forward to this [...]
