RasterWeb!Recorded near Alterra Foundry on 1st Street, this captures some of the sounds of traffic on an August night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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To suggest that Google is busy would be an understatement.
You might even suggest that if they have their fingers in a lot of different things, that they are some multi-armed, thousand-fingered monster, trying to take over and control the entire web…
But I’m sure that’s not the case…
Happy Browsing!
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Years ago I worked with this crazy software developer who was always talking about these AI Bots he wanted to write that would battle each other with logic. Basically, the idea was (as I understood it) he would program one bot to have an opinion on something, and another bot to have a differing opinion, and then have them converse with each other to see who would win the argument. Of course in his early tests no one ever won the argument, as AI Bots are very good an arguing and one would never be defeated by the other.
Nowadays you don’t need to write any IA Bots to accomplish this… All you need is:
Now just post something on your wall, and hope that your friends see it, and start to argue with each other. You may need to make it controversial, but even this is not a requirement.
Once it’s posted, just wait for the replies… Hours of entertainment!
So far I’m not impressed with Infinite Campus…
I know, the school year hasn’t even started, and there probably isn’t much data in it yet, and the fact that they misplaced my daughter, and had someone completely unrelated to my family associated with my account (somehow living in my house, with my mobile phone number) is all probably the fault of some human rather than the system itself…
I’m interested to know how much Infinite Campus costs. From my preliminary research, it looks to be expensive. Really expensive. REALLY REALLY expensive. Aren’t there open source alternatives to these things? I mean, it’s not like there’s a need for software like this… it’s only the educational market, how big can that be? I probably wouldn’t mind having my tax dollars used for the development of open source software that pretty much every school district could have the option to use to manage things…
Obviously I’ve not seen the back end of this thing… If it makes life easier for the teachers and administration, that’s a good thing… My opinion is only that of a user. A user who has about 15 minutes of using it. So far… I’m not impressed, but I’ll keep an eye on it. It seems to work for other schools. Maybe it’ll just take time. Hopefully I won’t have to fix things myself like I did with WebGrader.
In the olden days (before Twitter or Facebook) we had blogs… and that was the “social network” as it were… Bloggers helped popularize the idea of self publishing updates, status, and what not… So here my friends, on this particular Friday, is a list of blogs I’ve read recently. Some I’ve read for years, some I’ve just read recently. Welcome to the new Follow Friday.
Bloggers, I salute you for your independence and willingness to publish under your own terms… keep up the good work! And if you’ve got a blog you think I’d be interested in, leave a comment!
Readers, consider checking in with some of these blogs, and if you like them, leave a comment, or drop the blogger a note… They’ll appreciate it.
