Tag: vision
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humans interacting with computers
I was first introduced to the concept of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in the spring of 2002 while working on a system that would ostensibly tell Congress where the money they allocated to the Intelligence community in the “black budget” was going and whether or not it was producing valuable returns. This, of course, was never…
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The problem with APIs
The problem with APIs is that they are dead — they just sit there like an Easter egg waiting to be discovered, and once found, waiting to be asked a question, and then (maybe) they respond with an answer. This dead-ness then permeates all the things we try to do with APIs, from building applications…
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An Internet that fits my notion of what the Internet is
We are all reflections of the world that raised us, shimmering and twisting and deforming as ripples distort our surface, and so it is that our notions of what should be and of what ought be and of what could be are each derivative of this reflection. The Internet is a technology, and like any…
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A Cloudy Future
I am woken at the peak of my sleep cycle nearest to the hour I need to get up, my alarm using a fuzzy logic algorithm flashed to the internal circuits, which blends my typical snooze-cycle (stored on-line in the home NAS) and the bio-metric sensor placed under my mattress with today’s calendar appointments and…