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Google acquires reCAPTCHA
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to Wolfram Alpha (screencast)
Building the ultimate computational knowledge engine is a highly ambitious and long-term project. The Wolfram|Alpha that you will get to start exploring next week is really just the beginning. Still, there are a lot of ways that you might use Wolfram|Alpha.
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Google Calculating Which Employees Are About to Quit
[Google] recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories in a mathematical formula Google says can identify which of its 20,000 employees are most likely to quit.
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John Resig dissects the neural network javascript OCR captcha code
A pretty amazing piece of JavaScript dropped yesterday and it’s going to take a little bit to digest it all. It’s a GreaseMonkey script, written by ‘ Shaun Friedle ‘, that automatically solves captchas provided by the site Megaupload . There’s a demo online if you wish to give it a spin.
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Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming
A computational knowledge engine accessing trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms will soon be released by Wolfram Research.
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Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos
This is a description of how ahathereitis.com works. The things I'll be looking for are basically just a bunch of lines on the ground (like...
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Robot hand ties knots, dribbles a ball, and uses tweezers (video)
A few blogs are passing around videos of the Ishikawa Komuro Lab's high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation. However, the video being passed around is slight on details. Meanwhile, their video presentation at ICRA 2009 (which took place in May in Kobe, Japan) has an…
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Designing Emergent AI
A lot of people have been curious about how the AI in AI War: Fleet Command works, since we have been able to achieve so much more realisti...
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Automatic Differentiation: The most underused tool in the machine learning toolbox?
Update: (November 2015) In the almost seven years since writing this, there has been an explosion of great tools for automatic differentiation and a corresponding upsurge in its use. Thus, happily,…
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Three Major Singularity Schools
( Originally appeared on the Machine Intelligence Research Institute blog, September 2007.)