We’ll first touch briefly on technology and jargon, then look at several different scenarios, and try to focus on what storage options might be appropriate and cost effective. But first, let’s talk tech. We’ll first briefly discuss hard drives, then take a quick look at SSDs.
via Maximum PC | How to Buy a Hard Drive: An Essential Guide.
Steve Jobs, co-founder and two-time CEO of Apple, offered his resignation to the company’s board Wednesday.
“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, that day has come.”
The mythical speeds of Google Fiber have been just that until now – mythical. Like the leprechaun’s fabled pot of gold, the service’s high speed riches have existed only in lore, but as of late last week it now has a basis in reality. Even though the Goog’s still busy laying the fiber groundwork in Kansas Cities, a limited Beta apparently launched in a Stanford residential neighborhood recently.
via Maximum PC | Google Fiber Delivering Face-Melting Speeds Near Stanford.
The microwave has been redesigned to fit in a kitchen like a regular drawer, thus freeing up the work surface.
via Innowave – Microwave Redesign by Anoush Mortazavi » Yanko Design.
Pretty cool! -JA
Google has added a weather layer to Google Maps that displays current conditions from around the world, from London right down to the tiniest town in northern New Mexico, where the weather’s always likely to be better than in London.
via Weather layer added to Google Maps | Digital Media – CNET News.
I’ve actually been wishing for this — another great feature. -JA
The key thing about this process is that the neural network doesn’t even know whether it’s correctly identifying state/action pairs when it starts—it doesn’t know how to “read”—much less whether it has correctly interpreted the advice they convey (do you build near a river, or should you never build by a river?). All it has to go on is what impact its interpretation has on the outcome of the game. In short, it has to figure out how to read the owner’s manual simply by trying different interpretations and seeing whether they improve its play.
Despite the challenges, it works. When the full-text analysis was included, the success of the authors’ software shot up; it now won over half its games within 100 moves, and beat the game’s AI almost 80 percent of the time when games were played to completion.
via Computer Beats PC Game After Reading Manual | Wired Science | Wired.com.
The potential to find almost any piece of information in seconds is beneficial, but is this ability actually negatively impacting our memory? The authors of a paper that is being released by Science Express describe four experiments testing this. Based on their results, people are recalling information less, and instead can remember where to find the information they have forgotten.
via Study: why bother to remember when you can just use Google?.
“Welcome to the human network,” is the companys advertising slogan, and according to a Bloomberg report, Ciscos internal human network is going to be cut down by as many as 10,000, or about 14 percent of its workforce.
via Maximum PC | Cisco Reportedly Plans to Slash Up to 10,000 Jobs.