Techerous

My name is Bill, I am a recent graduate in Information Sciences and Technology from Penn State University and this is a place for me to post or give my 2 cents on the fascinating world of technology. I am now working for a pretty big technology related company whose name I will leave out just to avoid any possible complications, however far-fetched them happening may be. Music gets included from time to time as well.

May 15, 2013 8:33 pm
techfeit: Tech Event: Larry Page Google CEO Complete Q & A at Google I/O 2013 (video) Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance on stage at Google IO today for a 35 minute… View Post I’m skeptical on how much of this is really his view vs. the appearance he wishes to project, but overall a very human and open message for the technology sector.

techfeit:

Tech Event: Larry Page Google CEO Complete Q & A at Google I/O 2013 (video)

Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance on stage at Google IO today for a 35 minute…

View Post

I’m skeptical on how much of this is really his view vs. the appearance he wishes to project, but overall a very human and open message for the technology sector.

March 13, 2013 11:06 pm
NetflixGraph: In-Memory Directed Graph Data

nosql:

Another open source project from Netflix: NetflixGraph:

NetflixGraph is a compact in-memory data structure used to represent directed graph data. You can use NetflixGraph to vastly reduce the size of your application’s memory footprint, potentially by an order of magnitude or more. If your application is I/O bound, you may be able to remove that bottleneck by holding your entire dataset in RAM. You’ll likely be very surprised by how little memory is actually required to represent your data.

At first glance it sounds sort of a Redis for graph data. Available on GitHub.

Original title and link: NetflixGraph: In-Memory Directed Graph Data (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

January 23, 2013 12:00 am
"In this sense, the decision to mothball the tech would be a violation of the developers’ ethical principles. But the argument is about more than whether putting the tech back in the hands of the public is the right thing to do. “The biggest issue we saw with all of the commercial election software we used was that it’s only updated every four years,” says Ryan. It was these outdated options that convinced team Obama to build all the campaign tech in-house. If the code OFA built was put on ice at the DNC until 2016, it would become effectively worthless. “None of that will be useful in four years, technology moves too fast,” said Ryan. “But if our work was open and people were forking it and improving it all the time, then it keeps up with changes as we go."

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As Obama heads back to office, a battle rages over the tech that got him reelected

November 22, 2012 8:18 pm
DreamWorks Releases Software Used in ‘Guardians’

DreamWorks Releases Software Used in ‘Guardians’

November 11, 2012 11:07 pm
Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

This post captures every aspect of how we are consuming entertainment today perfectly.

August 25, 2012 1:51 pm
"Today’s verdict should not be viewed as a win for Apple, but as a loss for the American consumer. It will lead to fewer choices, less innovation, and potentially higher prices. It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies."

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Apple Awarded $1.049 Billion In Damages As Jury Finds Samsung Infringed On Design And Software Patents | TechCrunch (via fred-wilson)

(via marksbirch)

July 19, 2012 3:46 am
"Poetry is not about words. Poetry is about the right words. Innovation isn’t about ideas. Innovation is about the right ideas. Innovators need to carefully select the features, functions, or experiences that comprise a new product, process or service. As poets need a large vocabulary to precisely convey their meaning, innovators need a deep vocabulary of science and practice, engineering and management, to construct their innovative wares."

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How Innovation Is More Poetry Than Science | Fast Company

(via infoneer-pulse)

June 28, 2012 9:05 pm
thedailywhat: Even Computers Love Cats of the Day: 16,000 linked Google computers, 10 million random YouTube thumbnail images, and over a billion connections in between led to one result: the computers, without human guidance, learned what a cat is. Google’s attempt of simulating the human brain, with thousands of processors in conjunction with thinking software, discovered the house cat. It’s a huge step forward in computing, and the best part is…it’s learning. [smithsonian] Same story I posted a couple of days ago, but this one has a picture of a cat, let’s see how it does now!

thedailywhat:

Even Computers Love Cats of the Day: 16,000 linked Google computers, 10 million random YouTube thumbnail images, and over a billion connections in between led to one result: the computers, without human guidance, learned what a cat is.

Google’s attempt of simulating the human brain, with thousands of processors in conjunction with thinking software, discovered the house cat. It’s a huge step forward in computing, and the best part is…it’s learning.

[smithsonian]

Same story I posted a couple of days ago, but this one has a picture of a cat, let’s see how it does now!

June 27, 2012 2:12 pm
"Saying that you’re going to make something “interactive” or launch some “video” is not the same thing as thinking about the medium. The medium is: app or web. Mobile or desktop. Kindle e-single or iOS in-app purchase. Facebook integration or push notification. These are the media channels that have yet to be thoroughly understood and colonized. If your thinking about the medium begins and ends with what you can stick on a web page, you’ve lost already."

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Christopher Mims, Technology Review. What’s Wrong With Almost Every Old Media-Inspired New Media Startup.

Mims lists companies he believes get it (eg., Newser, News.me and the Atavist), writing, “Notice that what all of these examples have in common is that where they’re really succeeding isn’t the web. If you think you have the money and clout to be the next Huffington Post, be my guest, go “innovate.” But the web is a surprisingly mature medium, and old-media pundits turned new media hucksters who think they’re going to tell anyone else how to launch a sustainable business there are emperors sans clothes. New media companies that will succeed are founded by two kinds of people: technologists, and media people who think like technologists.”

June 18, 2012 1:18 am
3 Overlooked Areas Ripe for Innovation.

“3. People

According to the principles of E-Myth, the systems run the business, and the people run the systems. In order to get the right processes in place, the people that are going to drive them must be able and empowered to innovate. In order to have innovative employees, a company must be innovative in how it attracts and retains such talent. Maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit of OtterBox, even as we grow, has allowed us to keep top talent stimulated and enthused by their work.”