I’ve been using Siri and Text Recognition Programs such as Dragon Dictation. Great Programs.
Today, i dictated the telephone number and text message with my phone. 100 other programs exist as stand alone applications.
Does this technology make captcha irrelevant now (at least with the listen features).
a. hook up voice recognition to any audio stream.
b. take output of voice recognition and port as a variable into automation software.
c. beat captcha.
Charlie Rose Interview with Pandora Founder, Tim Westergren.
Originally a musician! : )
Check it out
http://www.charlierose.com/view/content/11097
For anyone that knows me, they know that I am a huge van gogh fan. I learned something about van gogh today which was very moving. His variations seem never to be shown together, ever, one beside the other.
Just like all his series: the sunflowers, potato eaters, violets, fields, shoes, etc. all seem to be shown in singles. Single ones, because they are so valuable and are spread everywhere. Like a deck of cards or a calendar, make much more sense when part of a suite or series.
The Mme Roulin, is a perfect example. Each great museum seems to own just one. much of the meaning however seem to be aesthetic beauty from the variations on a theme that he uses.
She gets a bit technical, but clearly smart and sound regarding UX, Ideation and development.
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10129
Saying that there are only 12 notes in music is a lot like saying there are only 5 moods in people..
it’s the compass and the pole.
RIM AND MICROSOFT
You are 2 companies kinda sorta on the brink. Where once you were young and sexy, now you’re tattered and on the edge of a chasm, a couple stains on those suits and ties from 2000., If this sounds familiar – and coming from the music business – it does ring a familiar tune… rest safely in the arms of the one and only She-Ra of Song + Dance. Express Yourself.
Microsoft: Your name might do better as a sexier simpler ‘M’. Not MS, Not Msoft. ‘M’ Corporation. Like if you came from a James Bond film, you would be top secret and cool. Your name would be a single letter. The letter M.
Take pop lessons from Madonna who went from Ciconne to only Madonna. Essence. Easier.
People might call you M-Co, which would be somewhat cooler. I have drawn up a logo of the new M-Co. (below). What do you think?
Just like RBC, RBS, HBO, MGM to peel back into a single unit of the greco-roman alphabet M.
Simple, straight. The new M Co.
RIM: What do you have going for you now that those upstarts are here. iPhone, Android, Tabs, Pads and even the M-phone. What there isn’t is a suite of business tools aimed at a group of RIM users. Like how office was for business, but now on the phone and now with Basecamp integrated into the shell. That would kick you ahead.
Good Luck out there. Even Britney Spears is old now.
Bloggers + Lawyer Disclaimer. PLEASE NOTE: Above are personal subjective opinions about Microsoft and RIM from myself no others. They are only to be tongue in cheek, that is a joke, but with some sage biz strat somewhere in there hopefully. We should all practice a good sense of humor sometimes. Healthy.
Poem by yours truly – appears as part of Helena Zhang’s A Similar But Different Quality collection of poems.
PICNIC RHYTHM
public class picnic_rhythm extends c#rhythm
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
danger danger danger danger
cup! danger cup!
danger danger danger
cup! danger cup!
danger (>) danger (>) danger (>) danger (>)
cup (mf) danger danger cup (p)
danger (>) danger (>) danger (>) danger (>)
cup (pp<) cup cup cup (f)
danger (sf>) danger (>) danger (>) danger (>) danger danger danger
cup (sf>p) cup (<) cup (<) cup (<) cup cup cup
cup! danger cup!
dangerdanger cup dangerdanger cup
opossum opossum opossum opossum
danger cup danger cup
opossum opossum opossum opossum
opossum opossum cup!!
If understand_Loops {
for (cup=-1, cup++!, cups <2) {
cup
danger danger
opossum
}
}
Else print (
“cup
danger danger
opossum
cup!
danger danger
opossum
cup!!
danger danger
opossum
vasectomy”
)
legleglegleg (>) legleglegleg (>)
legleg (>) leg legleg leg
leg (>) leg (>) leg (>) leg (>)
leg (.) leg (.) leg (…)
}
}
George Soros coined the term Reflexivity in the sense which i referring to it. Essentially meaning things are in a constant feedback loop (and more Mandebrotian, than Gaussian). My hunch is that the problem of modelling/predictive problems of Finance/Economics & Quantum Electrodynamics of particles is essentially the same phenomenom. Much like the apple that falls to the ground is the same process by which galaxies form.. Essentially that of the reflexivity that George Soros mentioned so many years ago. This is probably why he called his hedge fund the Quantum Fund.
Random Walks, Lesky Walks
Some properties of it:
-In markets, people react to every scenario, the reaction deterministically affects the future scenario and so on in real-time.
-Far away a trend/pattern can be recognized, but as you zoom in, up close it is always almost 50/50 the direction the thing will take. This is true for news events as well. We always push up to the frontier of knowledge and then it is 50/50.
-large jumps happens, and the movement can be discontinuous
-guess: the break of symmetry in our universe causes constant turbulence as every particle interacts with every other particle; at least this is how it is in the markets, seeing the same process. An event happens, everyone is process it, that reaction creates more events and so forth. The net topological result (the asset price) is largely unpredictable from close up.
-almost every other aspect of QED seems to fit into the same process of how random walks in prices work. I think once we come up with tools to understand this (like every other major tool: calculus, alegebra etc, this is will be just one more process in the mix, that was once obscure, but which crops up everywhere in nature).
And all other fourway sports… but soccer seems as good a candidate as any.
The teams are aligned opposites face one another. Game Theory meets Bicycle Kicks.. teams can help each other out, encouraged, but not required. Teams with the highest score wins. A,B,C,D this encourages cooperation up to a certain point which is advantageous.
When a team is winning, the other teams are encouraged to make an alliance, that alliance breaks once the score is more even or the time is running short.
Just a thought’
