Interesting Reads
On this pages I list all online articles, I found particular interesting to read.
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
The biggest successes in natural-language-related machine learning have been statistical speech recognition and statistical machine translation. The reason for these successes is not that these tasks are easier than other tasks; they are in fact much harder than tasks such as document classification that extract just a few bits of information from each document. The reason is that translation is a natural task routinely done every day for a real human need (think of the operations of the European Union or of news agencies). The same is true of speech transcription (think of closed-caption broadcasts). In other words, a large training set of the input-output behavior that we seek to automate is available to us in the wild. In contrast, traditional natural language processing problems such as document classification, part-of-speech tagging, named-entity recognition, or parsing are not routine tasks, so they have no large corpus available in the wild.... - The Google Enigma
This decade’s most remarkable business story has been the rise of Google from the dot-com ashes. Whenever a company becomes wildly successful in a brief span of time, it naturally becomes an object of fascination for corporate executives and even the general public.... - Are Your “Projections” Limiting Your Success? » Personal Development - The Urban Monk
... - Kevin Kelly: Technologies That Connect
In most developing countries, the infrastructure is concentrated in one or two cities. In Quadir's view, it's not that centralization per se creates poverty. Rather, decentralization is the engine which removes poverty and brings wealth.... - Brian Solis: PR Secrets for Startups
Public Relations is experiencing a long overdue renaissance and its forcing PR stereotypes out from behind the curtain where they operated comfortably for far too many decades.Yes, it’s taken that long and it will continue to evolve over the next decade... - Joel Spolsky: Architecture astronauts take over
That's one sure tip-off to the fact that you're being assaulted by an Architecture Astronaut: the incredible amount of bombast; the heroic, utopian grandiloquence; the boastfulness; the complete lack of reality. The business press goes wild!... - Chris Anderson: Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
But until recently, everything "free" was just the result of what economists would call a cross-subsidy. Over the past decade, a different sort of free has emerged. The new model is based not on cross-subsidies, but the cost of products of fallen.... - Thomas P.M. Barnett: The Man Between War and Peace
If, in the dying light of the Bush administration, we go to war with Iran, it'll all come down to one man. If we do not go to war with Iran, it'll come down to the same man. He is that rarest of creatures in the Bush universe: William Fallon.... - Nicholas A. Christakis: Social Networks are like the eye
It is customary to think about fashions in things like clothes or music as spreading in a social network. But it turns out that all kinds of things can flow through social networks, and this process obeys certain rules we are seeking to discover.... - Kevin Kelly: 1'000 True Fans
The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. I think consumers earn the greater reward. But the long tail is a decidedly mixed blessing for creators.... - Clive Thompson: Is the Tipping Point Toast?
The Influentials theory has been a marketing touchstone for 50 years. It has recently reentered the mainstream via thousands of marketing studies and a host of best-selling books. Yet, if you believe Watts, all that money and effort is being wasted.... - Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics | Smashing Magazine
Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion.... - John Borland: A Smarter Web
Five years before, he'd agreed to lead a diverse group of researchers working on a project called the Semantic Web, which seeks to give computers the ability--the seeming intelligence--to understand content on the World Wide Web.... - Marc Andreessen: The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet
One of the hottest of hot topics these days is the topic of Internet platforms, or platforms on the Internet. This post is my attempt to disentangle and examine the topic of "Internet platform" in detail.... - Cory Doctorow: Free data sharing is here to stay
The thinking is simple: an information economy must be based on buying and selling information. Unlike the mass-produced reproductions of the machine age, these copies are not just cheap, they are free....
