The Story of Send
Nice animated journey of a mail sent by Gmail.
He who has database admin access is never to be messed with.
SportsChimp is now live.
It’s a great feeling to finally ship something after weeks months of hard work. An interesting experiment in binary decision-making, SportsChimp is a social hot-or-not
You and your (Facebook) friends pick teams to win, and when the match gets over you win “banana bucks” if your team wins. The fun doesn’t stop there, if your friends lose you get to rub it in their faces. Very satisfying, believe me!
If you love sports, specifically IPL (Indian Premier League) cricket, you should totally check it out.
Why you can't trust tech press to teach you about the tech industry | Anil Dash
If our industry had magazines, we’d have a lot of People but no Variety, a Rolling Stone, but no Billboard.
Private secret emails for users using google app engine
Lots of services give a user a private email address to mail stuff to account e.g. readability, instapaper, radbox etc. Using Gmail/Google app engine, this can be achieved by using single email address. Gmail has a nice feature where it ignores anything after ‘+’ sign in email address. Basically…
Measuring asshattery, Klouchebag
Behold, Pictureless Pinterest: A Twitter account featuring “the best of Pinterest without having to look at the pictures.” Too true!
Having said that, follow us on Pinterest.
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Named after George Bernard Shaw’s ingénue in Pygmalion, the ELIZA program operated within the Project MAC computer system at MIT and made natural language exchange between man and machine possible. ELIZA identified key words and phrases and responded with rote answers that simulated a conversation.
Here’s what happened when a young girl tried to reason with ELIZA in one of the first examples of The Turing Test.
(To hear the audio from this discussion, head over to Radiolab for their fantastic episode on the subject, “Talking to Machines”)
1966 / Cambridge, MA: Talking Cure
Client: Men are all alike.
ELIZA (a computer): In what way
Client: They’re always bugging us about something or other.
ELIZA: Can you think of a specific example
Client: Well, my boyfriend made me come here.
ELIZA: Your boyfriend made you come here
Client: He says I’m depressed much of the time.
ELIZA: I am sorry to hear you are depressed
Client: It’s true. I am unhappy.
ELIZA: Do you think coming here will help you not to be unhappy
Client: I need some help, that much seems certain.
ELIZA: What would it mean to you if you got some help
Client: Perhaps I could learn to get along with my mother.
ELIZA: Tell me more about your family
Client: My mother takes care of me.
ELIZA: Who else in your family takes care of you
Client: My father.
ELIZA: Your father
Client: You are like my father in some ways.
Time and taste | Marco.org
Time is twofold: nobody can time-travel to launch a product in the past, and nobody can change how they’ve allocated their time in the past.
Marco takes on the “Apple will lose to cheaper competitors” argument.
