The Search

02Jan06

“The Search” by John Battelle is about the impact that search technology is having and will have on our culture. “Search” is defined quite broadly and includes the coming realm of ubiquitous computing. Google is a major focus of the book, and its influence and growth surely warrant that focus.
What motivated me to read this [...]

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On Intelligence

29Dec05

I recently read “On Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins. The book is about the author’s efforts to understand the human brain’s mechanism for intelligence and to apply it to machines. He presents a model of intelligence called the memory-prediction framework.
This was perhaps the first time I had read a somewhat detailed analysis of the possible mechanism [...]

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