Category Archives: Web/Tech

Why …

Posted on December 7, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

What does Google prediction spit out when you type the word “why” on Google search? Here’s what we got when we tried this little experiment from our home in Orlando, Florida at approximately 2am EST on 7 December 2014:

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Markets in infrastructure?

Posted on November 21, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Why not? Brock Cusick‘s eloquent essay “Here’s an idea better than net neutrality” is by far the best thing we have read on this well-worn subject in some time. Spoiler alert: Mr Cusick recommends a market approach to Internet service. (Hat … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Google Scholar

Posted on November 18, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

How great is Google Scholar? Special thanks to Anurag Acharya for his pivotal role in creating the specialized Google Scholar search engine. His creation is ten years old today. (By the way, Gmail also turned ten years old in April of this … Continue reading →

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Why is Microsoft Outlook still so crappy?

Posted on November 1, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Let us count the ways … It is slow and laborious to open. Outlook Calendar is fundamentally flawed. Attaching a document requires a cumbersome five(!)-step procedure. It doesn’t let you cut-and-paste content from a Word file directly into the message of … Continue reading →

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Turing Trials?

Posted on October 28, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Is the current legal system broken or in need of repair? Instead of an endless number of motions, costly discovery, and randomly-selected jurors, why don’t we try a different method of resolving legal disputes, one based on the Turing Test in computer … Continue reading →

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Windowless fuselage?

Posted on October 28, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

“What if we could enjoy the journey, not just the destination?” Courtesy of the Center for Process Innovation, via our friends at digg.

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But can it solve Bayesian equations?

Posted on October 22, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Pocket Calculator, Meet the “PhotoMath” App: Complements or Substitutes?

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Watson Law?

Posted on October 16, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Remember Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy-winning supercomputer? According to this report in LTN (Law Technology News), IBM is developing Watson Debater, a computer that can synthesize rules and cases and argue different sides of a legal issue. Robert C. Weber, Senior Vice President of Legal & Regulatory Affairs … Continue reading →

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Research at Facebook

Posted on October 2, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Research about research? We are reblogging Facebook’s official (and self-serving) statement in defense of its non-consensual and possibly unlawful research methods. Among other things, Facebook states that “our own research … indicat[es] that people respond positively to positive posts from their … Continue reading →

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Battle of the computer-chess engines

Posted on September 27, 2014 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Albert Silver recently conducted a fascinating computer experiment — a chess tournament between the Komodo 8 chess engine (running on an Android smart phone) playing against the Shredder chess engine (running on a much faster desktop computer — 50 times faster, to be exact). In … Continue reading →

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