Archives for September 2009
разговорный жанр
26 September 2009 | AI | No Comments
мы начинаем общаться:
The owner of one of England’s three major exam boards is to introduce artificial intelligence-based automated marking of English exam essays in the UK from next month.
а и в самом деле уже давно хочется поговорить о Мильтоне с компьютером.
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юбилейная запись
25 September 2009 | Internet, Personal | No Comments
Twitter is RSS on steroids.
развлечения
25 September 2009 | Animation, AR | No Comments
или вот еще одно художественное произведение с технологиями:
The plot is set in 2074 Belgrade. The main character is Edit, a female psychology student. After failing the same university exam for the sixth time, she decides to visit a dealer on the black market who installs a stolen military chip in her to help her pass. To her surprise, the chip affords her abilities greater than she ever imagined. And, needless to say, the government/military is intent on getting back the chip. From that moment, her life changes and unusual things start happening to her.
жду с нетерпением.
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за три года
25 September 2009 | Culturology, Literature | No Comments
роман Нила Стивенсона “Snow Crash” уже давно (шаг за шагом) становится реальностью. и дальше все тоже будет в точности по плану:
In this hypothetical future reality the federal government of the United States has ceded most of its power to private organizations and entrepreneurs. Franchising, individual sovereignty and automobiles reign supreme (along with drug trafficking, violent crime, and traffic congestion). Mercenary armies compete for national defense contracts while private security guards preserve the peace in gated, sovereign housing developments. Highway companies compete to attract drivers to their roads rather than the competitors’, and all mail delivery is by hired courier. The remnants of government maintain authority only in isolated compounds where they transact tedious make-work that is, by and large, irrelevant to the booming, dynamic society around them.
Much of the territory ceded by the government has been carved up into sovereign enclaves, each run by its own big business franchise (such as “Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong”) or the various residential burbclaves (suburban enclaves). This arrangement resembles anarcho-capitalism, a theme Stephenson carries over to his next novel The Diamond Age. Hyperinflation has devalued the dollar <...>. For physical transactions people resort to alternative, non-hyperinflated currencies such as yen or “Kongbucks” (the official currency of Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong).
а затем прийдут викторианцы.
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техническое
24 September 2009 | Software | 1 Comment
WordPress успешно перестал отсылать и принимать pingbacks и trackbacks. да и вообще. чем дальше, тем хуже, конечно.
изучение
24 September 2009 | Science | 2 Comments
кстати, засматриваюсь [@ Google Books] на “Микрографию” Роберта Гука, — в ожидании третьей части, понятное дело, которая все еще не за горами.
доска объявлений
24 September 2009 | Google, Internet, Lifeform | 3 Comments
вдогонку SearchWiki Гугл запустил теперь еще и SideWiki:
Google Sidewiki is a new browser plug-in that adds a universal commenting system to the web, allowing users to comment and read other people’s comments on any page on the internet.
оттуда они и берут идеи, оттуда.
направления
24 September 2009 | Watches | No Comments
а вот статья, которая суммирует последние наиболее революционные решения в часовом дизайне: 10 Watches that Shape the Future of Modern Watchmaking.
хорошие, конечно. плюс, еще одна новинка.
копаясь в архивах
23 September 2009 | History | No Comments
и еще городоское — блог Ephemeral New York, самодельная археология на заднем дворе.
via @GreatDismal, скорее всего.
живые дома
23 September 2009 | Architecture, Lifeform | No Comments
если не все, то многое о том, что вы хотели узнать о будущем наших городов:
We are now a predominantly urban species, with over 50% of humanity living in a city. The overwhelming majority of these are not old post-industrial world cities such as London or New York, but large chaotic sprawls of the industrialising world such as the “maximum cities” of Mumbai or Guangzhou. Here the infrastructures are layered, ad-hoc, adaptive and personal – people there really are walking architecture, as Archigram said.