Foreign languages and data streams
When you listen to foreign language you know, it's like you're hard…
NYT article on IBM’s Jeopardy-playing computer
We've been waiting for months for this New York Times magazine article…
Data hostages: The emerging business model of Web 2.0
For years, as growing millions blogged, Tweeted, posted videos on YouTube and…
Keeping count of people (and things)
I learned while researching The Numerati that the Chinese have 11 different…
Hugo Chavez should optimize Twitter
Venezuela's charismatic president, Hugo Chavez, is the country's most popular twitterer, with…
Statisticians zero in on Euro crooner
Kaggle, a British-based platform for prediction contests, has sponsored an unusual statistics…
Amazon’s foreign publishing push: A customer data play
I'm trying to imagine everything Amazon knows about me. The company's computers…