beo daily - daily stuff

30 April 2002

Lessons from Giant-Scale Internet Services.
Death Master file
Fly around the Orion Nebula
A mention of AirEight, connected with squeak
E, the secure distributed pure-object platform and p2p scripting language for writing Capability-Based Smart Contracts.

This is cool. An experiment in minimally directed self-learning has been going fairly well, from the article: To test his ideas, Sugata Mitra launched something 13 months ago he calls "the hole in the wall experiment." He took a PC connected to a high-speed data connection and imbedded it in a concrete wall next to NIIT's headquarters in the south end of New Delhi. The wall separates the company's grounds from a garbage-strewn empty lot used by the poor as a public bathroom. Mitra simply left the computer on, connected to the Internet, and allowed any passerby to play with it...he discovered was that the most avid users of the machine were ghetto kids aged 6 to 12, most of whom have only the most rudimentary education and little knowledge of English. Yet within days, the kids had taught themselves to draw on the computer and to browse the Net.

Wired 10.04: Peace Is War
And a response
And the slashdot Coverage
The joys of neighbors
The Atlantic - April 2002 - Seeing Around Corners
Computer History Simulation Project
AspectS is an approach to general-purpose Aspect-Oriented Programming in the Squeak environment.

AI Wisdom is dedicated to cataloguing game AI articles that appeared in game programming books, magazines, or conference proceedings.
Ask Jeeves relaunces as Teoma
Instant Outlining, Instant Gratification

Last modified: Wed May 1 09:58:17 MEST 2002