by andflywrite | Jan 17, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Not a new idea to model the brain using computers, but here’s an ongoing project, The Blue Brain Project and described below in a Discovery Channel Video. Note while the Discovery guy talks about how many neurons are in the brain, he doesn’t mention the...
by andflywrite | Jan 16, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Amazing, really, article in recent New Yorker  on ongoing R&D in computer sensing and processing of human emotions. The ability to “sense” who we are at any moment is far down the path towards recognition already…. for various hardware/ software...
by andflywrite | Jan 16, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
How Lynda.com got started, and some of their learning philosophy, and future plans. This is not surprisingly in a Lynda.com course format…here’s the course “intro” below.
by andflywrite | Jan 15, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
An 11/24/2014 article in the New Yorker explores the world of “top programmers”; how much they are “in need” and how startups go awry because said talent can’t be found. Or afforded. Various reasons are suggested as to why this is so, but...
by andflywrite | Jan 15, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
A lengthy recent article in the New Yorker talks about research on the effects of how much parental talking takes place in various economic classes, and how that affects the learning of those children. This isn’t all new, in that we know from such organizations...
by andflywrite | Jan 15, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Simon Fure Jorgenson, who is doing a presentation on Jan.16 at the CoffeeClub Las Cruces on his “Playing Lean: Teaching Entrepreneurship with a Board Game”, also has a “Kickstarter” project by the same name. So its a 2fer at this link; learn...
