Over at Mutating Pictures, Philipp Lensman started wit a pool of 1000 randomly created images, and is asking people to rate how much each image looks like a face. He put the site up yesterday, and look how far it’s come. There’s also a forum at Google Blogoscoped, where technical details and the implementation are [...]
Entries Tagged as 'hacking'
Fascinating visual evolution experiment
October 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · evolutionaryalgorithms, hacking, internet, participation, philosophy, statistical models, systems
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BarCamp / iPhoneDevCamp
July 6th, 2007 · No Comments · apple, friends, hacking
I have to hand it to my friends William and Raven – 3 weeks ago they decided they wanted to have the first iPhone-centric hacking session, and lo and behold: the iPhoneDevCamp. It sounds like fun – 300 attendees with a bunch of iPhones, trying to figure out some useful/fun/elegant hacks. Wish I could be [...]
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Why the enterprise software industry should be afraid
May 30th, 2006 · No Comments · IT Industry, economics, hacking, participation, philosophy
What I like best about 37Signals, poster child of the Web 2.0 “movement” because in an odd, tangential way, it captures the essence of the Internet-flavored gung-ho attitude that is fueling the trend. As a complete aside, check out the etymology of phrase gung-ho. Who knew that the most reproduced GI Joe figure was named [...]
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There is no Open Source bubble
May 30th, 2006 · No Comments · IT Industry, economics, hacking, internet, participation
I’ve heard rumblings from some quarters about a return to the salad days of the ’90′s for the IT industry, this time with Open Source and Web 2.0 inflating the bubble. Setting aside the question of whether the dot-com bubble was something to which we’d actually want to return (it isn’t), the possibility of a [...]
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