Jeopardy, IBM versus Wolfram|Alpha

Stephen Wolfram, the creator of Wolfram|Alpha explains the relation between Wolfram|Alpha and the IBM Jeopardy project. Contrast of IBM's language processing system for question answering on Jeopardy versus Wolfram|Alpha's approach using computable knowledge to derive answers.

via blog.stephenwolfram.com

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Hierarchy Of Visual Understanding?

swissmiss often have interesting, smart people come visit Studiomates (our studio collective) and they’ve been talking for a while that they should simply start a digital guestbook of all the fantastic people that stop by.

This week guest was David McCandless a London-based author, writer and designer. This is his virtual Guestbook entry on swissmiss studio-ideapaint wall.

via www.informationisbeautiful.net

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How to Explain the Internet to a 19th-Century Street Urchin

Do you know how the internet really works -- how you're able to read this article on a magical glowing rectangle attached to a keyboard?

This cheat sheet created by flowchart guru Doogie Horner  explain the inner workings of the web to someone even less informed.

via www.fastcodesign.com

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