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Comment Innovators will find a use for it (Score 1) 336

Thomas Watson, IBM 1943 - "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers". And there's a Bill Gates quote I can't find that says something similar. 6 years ago, before the iPhone/smartphone revolution, you'd wonder who would ever want a dual-core chip in a phone. Now we can't make chips fast enough for the awesome games and apps coming out for the iPhone. Innovators will always figure out a way to use more computer power.

Comment CommonTag (Score 1) 102

There are a lot of companies and organizations trying to champion linked data, but linked data is nothing if those same companies and organizations don't adopt standards and push them ubiquitously. That was the motivation behind http://commontag.org/. It's a semantic data set of interrelated semantic concepts from various sources, but with a pretty impressive line of companies backing it up and implementing it.

Comment Re:So What! it's Chess all over again! (Score 1) 312

I believe Polaris has style-learning abilities as well.

"Polaris's second ability is learning. The program studies how opponents are playing and makes adjustments to its style in response. At last year's event in Vancouver, the machine played the first two matches purely on its memory, earning a draw and a victory. For the third and fourth matches, the scientists activated its learning mechanism, programming Polaris based on what they had seen from opponents Phil Laak and Ali Eslami."

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=714f37e4-c680-4863-8db1-a772c53e8dd9

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