Monthly Archives: August 2010

If All Commercials Were Like This, I Wouldn’t FFWD Through Them

By admin | Published: August 27, 2010

Wasn’t branded entertainment christened “here” with BMW Films? Man, brands really need to get with it.

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It’s About Making Driving Better, Not Doing It For Me

By admin | Published: August 27, 2010

This company has just released an AR iphone app that you see above. And the first thing I thought was that with all of the DARPA (MIT, etc.) focus on robotic driving in recent years, where has the innovation been around making your driving experience better/safer etc.? This whole AR overlay on your driving experience [...]

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Crop Circles in the Stock Market

By admin | Published: August 26, 2010

I read an article in Zero Hedge a while ago about how the “flash crash” in the stock market was a direct result of “quote stuffing”, a fraudulent practice designed to manipulate stock prices in predictable directions enabled by the over-automation of the market through algorithmic trading. Recently I stumbled upon a daily blog dedicated [...]

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Some Summer Vacation Photos

By admin | Published: August 24, 2010

Here’s my summer vacation photo album. All shot with an iPhone 3GS using Hipstamatic (horrible name, great app). My only gripe about the application is that you retroactively apply photo effects and filters. Why can’t you change lenses after the fact? Use different film post-shot? I mean, it’s all a programmatic effect applied to the [...]

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Where Are the Ants?

By admin | Published: August 2, 2010
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This reminds me of a flex-coded, corporate version the machine in Darren Aronofsky’s Pi. Only with fewer ants creating the special sauce (sorry for the spoiler but I think 12 years is past the statute of limitations). Seriously though, data-mining and trend-spotting algorithms are big business in todays T.I.A. world. And that’s fine – the [...]

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