by andflywrite | Aug 10, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
Akamai has several current SOI (state of internet) reports available. Here’s a 44 page report in pdf. And here’s one of their infographics from same series of reports, labeled first quarter 2014. There’s also a cool iOS app to download re SOI, which...
by andflywrite | Aug 10, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
Map of current US internet speeds by state. Of course, NM is a very large state, and taking an average of internet speeds will be somewhat of a deceptive undertaking if one wants to know the speed in any particular part of the state. Apparently the above map came from...
by andflywrite | Aug 8, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
“It was sort of a Eureka moment” says the Harvard researcher announcing new “folding robot”. We investigated cheap, fast, and easy ways of being able to build machines and robots based on folding. We worked with our collaborators at MIT, who...
by andflywrite | Aug 8, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
My favorite heading in this Wired article on IBM new chip is:”But Can It Learn?” All sorts of implications for chips like this, and it’s also made possible because we are in that sweet spot of innovation, where doubling of processing power according...
by andflywrite | Aug 7, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
We’ve noted for some years now that the big kahuna of change in learning options and access and employment opportunities is “Accreditation”. Assuming access becomes less and less of an obstacle, what will be left in the way of OTL will...
by andflywrite | Aug 6, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
Shai Reshef wants to democratize higher education. At University of the People, he runs a tuition-free online school that offers tuition-free college-level studies to students across the globe, offering bachelor’s and associate’s degrees in two...
