Sean McBride

"Needleman continues, “Thinking about autocorrect and word suggestions as AI might seem reductionist, but another AI expert at the dinner, Stephen Wolfram, of Wolfram Research, has been saying this for a while now. We can make AI a ‘neural prothesis,’ he says. It can be something that makes our minds stronger, that eases our mental burdens. Wolfram expects that AI will indeed become like ‘auto-suggest’ for your life. As he says, if you can let a keyboard on your phone suggest the words you probably want to type, why not also let your phone suggest what you might want to do? The software can base its suggestions on the vast and growing knowledge about you that it’s now very easy to gather.”" - Sean McBride

"Artificial Intelligence could be designed as self-serving and goal-seeking by itself. We could (and probably will) have AIs that are used for individual and social control, or to fight wars. But not all AI has to go this way. Evernote CEO Phil Libin prefers to call AI, “augmented intelligence,” and his company, he says, is using AI to help people do what they want to do: Live better lives, and be more intelligent. “In five years we will be smarter,” he says. Not because our brains will be functioning better, but rather because our software will be amplifying our minds, reinforcing our goals, and helping us with analytical thinking and the archiving of ideas." - Sean McBride

1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization. - Greg GuitarBuster

1. Java: James Gosling 2. C: Dennis Ritchie 3. C++: Bjarne Stroustrup 4. Python: Guido van Rossum 5. PHP: Rasmus Lerdorf 6. Perl: Larry Wall 7. JavaScript: Brendan Eich 8. Ruby: Yukihiro Matsumoto 9. Lisp: John McCarthy 10. Pascal: Niklaus Wirth - Sean McBride

Marked up in NML: {c; *category; *instance; *property; *value} - Sean McBride

1. c; programming language; Java; creator; James Gosling 2. c; programming language; C; creator; Dennis Ritchie 3. c; programming language; C++; creator; Bjarne Stroustrup 4. c; programming language; Python; creator; Guido van Rossum 5. c; programming language; PHP; creator; Rasmus Lerdorf 6. c; programming language; Perl; creator; Larry Wall 7. c; programming language; JavaScript; creator; Brendan Eich 8. c; programming language; Ruby; creator; Yukihiro Matsumoto 9. c; programming language; Lisp; creator; John McCarthy 10. c; programming language; Pascal; creator; Niklaus Wirth - Sean McBride

""Every company will try to out-Siri Siri until we have consciousness," she said, referring to the Apple/iOS application that works as a personal assistant and navigator. "It will be like water that rises and rises and rises and, before we know it, we're in an ocean of cyber consciousness."" - Sean McBride

Pobrecitos - Greg GuitarBuster

"The Machine Learning periodic table from MLN.io, a machine learning newsletter, lists machine learning packages for languages like Python and Java and tasks like NLP and Computer Vision. Below, you can see the table itself." - Sean McBride

Heard http://goheard.com/ - Sean McBride

I don't see an equivalent here for the FF bookmarklet for sharing webpages. - Sean McBride

A possible substitute for Friendfeed? -- so far, I am thinking not. - Sean McBride

Requires a single domain name for the Slack account. Such as a companies email domain address and then employees with corporate email address can sign up. It sends a validation email as well to that email address. So to do this someone would need to host an email server with a domain that alias accounts can be setup that forwards to a separate real email address that they can recieve the validation email from. - CW

It has some very cool features for sharing and discussing information, but the environment is closed not open -- and the interface overall doesn't feel as intuitive and simple as FF. - Sean McBride

I don't think Apple has ever tried to hide this? - Stephan Planken

"“The iOS terms clearly state that Apple will record what you say and may send it to subsidiaries and their agents. It goes on to add that they will record the names of your contacts, your relationships with them, in-home devices, and sometimes your location,” writes Tim Pool. Where is the data collected by Siri being sent to? Last month, a Reddit user called called FallenMyst claimed that he had started work for a company called Walk N’ Talk Technologies and that his job was to check for incorrect translations made by Siri. Audio heard by the individual included “sexting via voice and people giving the usual banal and weird commands to their phones,” reported Forbes. As Pool points out, the vast majority of people don’t read terms of service agreements and so are completely clueless to the fact that Apple is recording their voice data and sending it to third parties, as well as keeping detailed records of their every location." - Sean McBride

My guess is that most users of Apple products haven't fully grasped the implications of this policy. - Sean McBride