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Outsourcing yourself for fun and profit
At least a decade ago, when I worked in IT, I read a story online that I treasured like those special Dilbert clips everyone posts in their cubicle. Supposedly, a software engineer making $90,000 a...
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More on Robot Surgery
In a strange synchronicity after my robot post yesterday, our Sunday paper business section carried an article called “Robot surgery faces lawsuits.” The source for the piece is listed as Bloomberg...
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Data-mining for Screenplays
‘“It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you...
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MIT Open Courseware
Open: characterized by ready accessibility and usually generous attitude: as (1) : generous in giving – Webster’s Online Dictionary “The idea is simple: to publish all of our course materials online...
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Big news for online education
In mathematics, an inflection point is the place on a curve where the curvature changes from concave upward (positive) to concave downward (negative) or vice versa. Andy Grove, former Intel CEO, gave...
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Robots ‘R Us, installment 2
The Steam Man of the Prairies, 1868. Public Domain. An obscure author, Edward S. Ellis, who published a dime novel called The Steam Man of the Prairies 145 years ago, may prove to have been a visionary...
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Virtual dreams
A few nights ago I had a 21st century dream in which the key event was losing my cell phone. In days of yore – say five or ten years ago – losing a wallet was the common dream image for a disruption...
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Notes from 2017 – A Funeral in India
Friends, family, and Indian government ministers at funeral rites for Srinivas Kuchibhotla in Hyderabad, India Yesterday, hundreds of mourners held funeral rites for Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a 32 year old...
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