The last New York Islanders playoff game I attended was in 1984, a 6-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers, the second game in a final that wou…
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Hi, I'm Jeff Beil. I created Timelinks. In the past I took Grandparents.com from business plan in 2006 to sale in 2010, and wrote and produced Shout about Movies for ODVD Games. I live in Brooklyn with my wife Meg and baby boy, Theodore.
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Hi, I'm Jeff Beil. I created Timelinks. In the past I took Grandparents.com from business plan in 2006 to sale in 2010, and wrote and produced Shout about Movies for ODVD Games. I live in Brooklyn with my wife Meg and baby boy, Theodore.
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Fred Wilson: Money Is Information, Like Bits, And We Want To Invest In Ways Of Moving It | TechCrunch
Fred Wilson, legendary New York venture capitalist and partner at Union Square Ventures, is the latest VC to highlight his interest in startups that help move money, “an area that is still very much up for grabs,” in his opinion. “Money is information, like bits,” he said today..
There you have it. Going into tonight’s first meaningful late-season game against the Rangers in what feels like several decades, the Islanders have an 86% chance of making the playoffs. Let’s go Islanders!
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The world’s oldest trees in an infographic by Michael Paukner, master of esoteric visualization. Pair with the world’s oldest trees in photos.
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What does collective intelligence mean? It’s important to realize that intelligence is not just something that happens inside individual brains. It also arises with groups of individuals. In fact, I’d define collective intelligence as groups of individuals acting collectively in ways that seem intelligent. By that definition, of course, collective intelligence has been around for a very long time. Families, companies, countries, and armies: those are all examples of groups of people working together in ways that at least sometimes seem intelligent.
It’s also possible for groups of people to work together in ways that seem pretty stupid, and I think collective stupidity is just as possible as collective intelligence…
What’s new, though, is a new kind of collective intelligence enabled by the Internet. Think of Google, for instance, where millions of people all over the world create web pages, and link those web pages to each other. Then all that knowledge is harvested by the Google technology so that when you type a question in the Google search bar the answers you get often seem amazingly intelligent, at least by some definition of the word “intelligence”….
Our future as a species may depend on our ability to use our global collective intelligence to make choices that are not just smart, but also wise.
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Thomas W. Malone, director of MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, on humanity’s evolving ‘global brain.’ Also see Christof Koch on the evolution of the global übermind.
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RIP Dave Brubeck.
Great looking product. I’ve been wanting this exact thing for years. Glad someone finally made one.
