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Itās a long held fantasy that humans will one day colonise other planets. We might have been looking at the wrong parts of space.
Meet the computer that creates recipes unheard of before and (the and is the important part) picks the ones people will like. Now you know how I came up with a Ā«Weekly FiletĀ» three years ago.
Ā«The horizontal axis is not about space, itās not about left and right, itās about earlier and later,Ā» he says. Ā«If two people are crossing the pixel at the same moment, they will look like they are walking together.Ā» Let that sink in for a moment. Then head over to read the profile of the extraordinary photographer who makes those images (and of course to have a look at his work).
How many movie genres can you name? 10, 15, maybe 30 if youāre getting creative. Well, streaming service Netflix categorises its content into no less than 76ā897 micro-genres, like Ā«Emotional Independent Sports MoviesĀ» or Ā«Mind-bending Cult Horror Movies from the 1980sĀ». It has done so by having computers and humans meticulously tag and rate every movie by all sorts of categories. This data is then used to power recommendations or, like in the case of Ā«House of CardsĀ», determine the ingredients of a successful new series. The real takeaway from this entertaining read: Itās the data, stupid!
A good synopsis of the state of the Ā«internet of thingsĀ». It features a great analogy that adds instant clarity to the matter: Ā«The internet of things will create a world of invisible buttonsĀ»
The toys they are a-changinā.
A great profile about the two men at the heart of the biggest and most important story of the year.
An incredibly long article that will tell you everything you didnāt know you wanted to know about self-driving cars.
Virtual currency Bitcoin has skyrocketed to new heights this week. But what exactly is this about and what does it mean? Thanks WaPo for this explainer.
Ok, this is not going to be an easy read. But a highly fascinating and important one. Ā«If weāre forming a kind of global brain with all our interconnected computers and devices, then the Wolfram Language is the natural language for it.Ā» The next lingua franca, for both humans and robots?
Make sense of whatās happening, and imagine what could be.
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