Tag:computing

Gartner predicts mobile paradigm’s coming & you’re not ready

You’re probably not ready… Look around at the systems and applications you’re probably using right now. From an IT perspective: If you’ve created any internally developed applications, more than likely, they aren’t web-based, or if web-based, are stand-alone apps with their own unique, browser and window-size specific display properties, and a dependency on a platform-specific technology…

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Not going where you think (funny)

I’m in! … Look, it’s a game. Nah, tic-tac-toe is boring, let’s try this one…. Click through for the rest of this comic. It’s not going where you expect…

The Turing Test – are you better than a computer

Here’s an interesting book review of “The Most Human Human”  – leading off with the concept of the Turing Test. This Test is: can a computer convincingly simulate a human participation in a conversation? In particular I am curious about its exploration of ‘the way the compression of data can be used as a measure of…

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