#caleb garling

[mirrorontheworld]

Jeff Hawkins on Firing Up the Silicon Brain

Along with other researchers, Hawkins believes that the brain’s structure holds the keys for the next generation of computers that will interpret our world with far more insight than our eyes and ears ever could. I chatted with Hawkins recently about how the biggest opportunities in deep learning all circle back to the human brain.

[majoringindebt]

Founded in 2008, TaskRabbit was one of the pioneers of the peer-to-peer marketplace — the same basic idea that powers companies like Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and the rest of the renting economy. (Please, let’s stop calling it the “sharing economy”: Sharing doesn’t involve money.) It heralded a techtopian dream of a friction-free world where workers and employers operated under ideal conditions: Find a job when you need it, find a worker when you desire one, all at the right price. And with investors pumping in more than $37 million to get it going, TaskRabbit seemed like it might be getting somewhere. In 2011 Wired called it “revolutionary”; last year Bloomberg Businessweek declared that “in the future, we’ll all be TaskRabbits.” But the dream turned out to be tougher in reality. This past summer TaskRabbit zigged. It’s what Silicon Valley calls a pivot — start-up speak for retooling its business model — and it usually happens for financial reasons. What it meant in practice was a set of severe changes to the system’s mechanics that many of the taskers I spoke to said destroyed much of their freedom.

Hunting Task Wabbits

[menuanxiety]

Everyone — everyone — is on their own trajectory, bumping into one another for a hot period of time, and then moving on to continue the journey. You set your heading and go, seeing what you see and meeting who you meet along the way.

The futile exercise of writing about Burning Man | The Technology Chronicles | an SFGate.com blog

[fuckyeahapis]

You have open APIs, and then compete on implementations.' -Schwartz. Throwing a lot of cold water on Oracle's case right now Tweet from Caleb Garling

https://twitter.com/#!/CalebGarling/status/195550968300048385

[dweeble-blog]

Reblog: Game Guru Slips Microsoft Windows Onto Apple iPads

Steve Perlman's latest venture, OnLive, released a free iPad app designed to access a virtual Windows desktop running on a distant server, complete with software such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. And in typical Perlman fashion, it tackles the problem from an unexpected but completely sensible direction. Founded a year and half ago, OnLive is actually a gaming company. But rather than run games on your PC or your phone or your tablet, it streams them to your device over the net. from Wired Top Stories http://bit.ly/xv9PAL