Here’s an amazing person. He didn’t wait for a teacher to tell him to make something. Despite the odds, he made it happen. This is well worth watching.
There’s a new meteorologist on Dragon TV, a news station based in China, and her bosses are raving about her work ethic.
The newbie takes no holidays. She’s never late to work and never stumbles on air. Of course, it’s easy to be the star employee when you’re really a robot. [Read more at stuff.co.nz]
Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist’s thirst for knowledge with a philosopher’s quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence, work that helped inspire the creation of the personal computer and the Internet, died on Sunday night in Boston. He was 88.
Well before the advent of the microprocessor and the supercomputer, Professor Minsky, a revered computer science educator at M.I.T., laid the foundation for the field of artificial intelligence by demonstrating the possibilities of imparting common-sense reasoning to computers.
Read more at the New York Times.
Here’s a product that claims to be the most advanced gesture tracking camera in the world.
What are some key features?
What doesn’t work as well as you’d hope?
How do you think it could be improved?
This video gives a practical example of growth mindset and demonstrates neural plasticity.
Do you think you could ride the bike?
As human beings, we get used to “the way things are” really fast. But for designers, the way things are is an opportunity … Could things be better? How? In this funny, breezy talk, the man behind the iPod and the Nest thermostat shares some of his tips for noticing — and driving — change.