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Your Life as Data: The Rise of Personal Annual Reports

scaffeoa — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:35:45 -0500

Your Life as Data: The Rise of Personal Annual Reports:

Every time he drinks a cup of coffee, Dan Meyer makes a note on his phone. He does the same every time he opens a beer, turns on his TV or travels away from home. At the end of each month, he spends about three hours transferring these meticulously gathered notes into an excel spreadsheet. Me…

Google Heads-Up Display Glasses Are Coming by the End of 2012 [REPORT]

scaffeoa — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:20:57 -0500

Google Heads-Up Display Glasses Are Coming by the End of 2012 [REPORT]:

Google plans to launch glasses with a heads-up display by the end of 2012, the New York Times reports citing sources familiar with the matter. The glasses, who were previously rumored to have a front-facing camera with flash and a voice input interface, will be Android based, sources say. …

"We all go through life assuming that time is an external river that flows past us. But experiments..."

scaffeoa — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:26:51 -0400

“We all go through life assuming that time is an external river that flows past us. But experiments in my laboratory over the past decade have shown that this is not precisely the case. Time is an active construction of the brain. We can set up simple experiments to make you believe that a flashed image lasted longer or shorter than it actually did, or that a burst of light happened before you pressed a button (even though you actually caused it with the button), or that a sound is beeping at a faster or slower rate than it actually is, and so on. Time is a rubbery thing.”

- In a fantastic interview, neuroscientist David Eagleman shares insight on time and our capacity to know. Related, 7 essential books on understanding time from a cross-disciplinary perspective. (via curiositycounts)

Series of Videos by Deepak Chopra

scaffeoa — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:36:00 -0400

Deepak Chopra - Science vs Spirituality

scaffeoa — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:37:50 -0400

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

TimeScapes - Rapture

scaffeoa — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:34:45 -0400

TimeScapes: Rapture from Tom Lowe @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

The State of the Web: An Interactive HTML5 Infographic

scaffeoa — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:58:54 -0400

Created by: Online Schools

Deepak Chopra - Basic Principles of Quantum Mechanics

scaffeoa — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:00:00 -0400

Copenhagen version - a particle exists in several states in all locations till observed when it finds itself in 1state & 1location

When the wave functions of different particles get entangled their properties depend on each othe no matter how far apart

What is waving when a particle is behaving as a wave ? “Existence is waving” Particles are winking in & out of existence

When 2 particles interact they get entangled. Their properties depend on each other even when they are world’s apart

All physical structures are derived from atoms and are manifestations or actualization of forms of potentiality

Although particles appear randomly, they follow a distribution pattern. The wave function is an invisible guiding principle.

Poetic interlude “We come spinning out of nothingness scattering stars like dust” -Rumi

Schrodinger’s equation explains every atom in the periodic table of elements & its appearance from nothingness

Schrodinger’s equation is a mathematical formulation that accounts for the appearance of all atoms in the universe from nothingness

Schrodinger’s wave function equation describes the distribution map for a particle appearing in & out of existence from nothingness

Subatomic particles appear from the nothingness of space , exist, & disappear into the nothingness at lightening speed

Subatomic particles can travel along many paths simultaneously

Subatomic particles can be in more than one place at the same time

Subatomic particles can disappear & reappear in another location without existing in the intervening space

Waves of potentiality are trans-empirical , unobservable, but real as without them particles would not exist

Waves of potentiality , unlike particles, do not have physical units of mass or energy. They are numbers or ratios of numbers

When particles are left alone or not interfered with they spontaneously evolve into waves of potentiality

As particles quantum objects are material & in the empirical world (verified by observation/measurable) As waves they are not material

Quantum objects exist as particles /waves. As particles they have physical properties of mass & energy.As waves they are possibilities

Via: Medical Billing And Coding

scaffeoa — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:14:45 -0400

Via: Medical Billing And Coding

Is There a Social Media Tech Bubble? [INFOGRAPHIC]

scaffeoa — Sun, 29 May 2011 15:02:45 -0400

Google Correlate Tutorial

scaffeoa — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:09:00 -0400

Google Correlate is an experimental new tool on Google Labs which lets you use the same methodology and data as Google Flu Trends. Google Correlate is like Google Trends in reverse. With Google Trends, you type in a query and get back a series of its frequency (over time, or in each US state). With Google Correlate, you enter a data series (the target) and get back queries whose frequency follows a similar pattern. Try it out here - http://correlate.googlelabs.com/

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Apple’s 500k Approved iOS Apps by the Numbers

scaffeoa — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:43:56 -0400

Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity

scaffeoa — Tue, 24 May 2011 12:39:17 -0400

scaffeoa — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:33:42 -0400

Google Trends - "what does my name mean" searches are rising

scaffeoa — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:28:35 -0400

I believe people want to find meaning from their feelings. One way to find meaning is through their name which speaks to whether their name, a data point, is associated and connects with the feelings of the user. This analysis was studied using the top 5 searched words being wanting to be defined using Google search.

IDEA - Why the top 5 most frequently defined words on Google may describe what we vision and how we feel

scaffeoa — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:28:18 -0400

I was curious today - given that Google collectively has superintelligence, can its Google suggestion feature in search for words defined tell us what we see and how we may feel based on the collective wisdom of the world? As on May 3, 2011, the top five Google suggestion searches for finding a defined word was culture, love, ethics, irony and media.

I find that when I want to understand the world around me and inside me, I quantify those feelings into words I know or I may not know through searching words defined on Google. This allows me to truly understand what they mean so I may evaluate my feelings and thus vision of the world - the process of creating wisdom.

Exploring the meaning of the top 5 words

A definition is a statement of the exact meaning of a word. I have looked at how these 5 words may have meaning in the form of personal and societal feelings as a whole. If we search for meaning, we define feelings. If we define feelings, we speak to the world differently leading to personal traits such as happiness and love.

Culture, Love, Ethics, Irony, Media

Culture is “the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively” - this speaks out to the fact that our world is so interconnected these days that people want to understand what the various data points in their life mean externally. This speaks to our social life.

Love is “an intense feeling of deep affection” - this speaks out to how we feel internally and may be linked to our personal and social life.

Interesting how what exists outside of us, culture, “may” be more frequently sought after in terms of understanding than what exists inside ourselves. Many thought leaders I follow in the world like Deepak Chopra, Umair Haque and Don Tapscott have a passion and commitment with the inside (love) and outside world (culture) (ie. Don Tapscott is educated in Psychology, which speaks to a wisdom and understanding of love, as well as an author of a book called Macrowikinomics, which speaks to the wisdom and understanding of culture. Deepak and Umair are always discussing the distinction between the outside world and the inside world.

Ethics, to me, is a cross-section between culture and love (society and people). Its the difference between “motivations based on ideas of right and wrong”. It’s a balance that speaks out to what we see/feel externally and what we see/feel internally. I’m pretty sure Umair’s next book will be on ethics - he is passionate about aligning the inside with the outside ~ where things truly matter. However, ethics may be disrupting that balance.

Irony is “the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect”. Given the many different people (culture) we are surrounded by offline and online these days along with how we truly feel (love), we may use the feelings of irony to describe ethical situations, to describe love in our personal life or to describe culture in social situations.

Lastly, media, which is “the main means of mass communication regarded collectively” pieces all these variables together. So when you blame the media, rethink your connectivity inside your world and assess how what you see everyday (culture), how you feel (love), and the cross section of the two (ethics) which maybe ironic may be the basis for one’s attitude towards understanding what media is.

Wikipedia

The medium is the message” is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived.

Thus the components of the message (media) is perceived as follows collectivity based on one’s perception of culture+love+ethics+irony

Other notable top define words were globalization, integrity and leadership (in my mind, globalization speaks to culture, integrity speaks to ethics and leadership speaks to culture and love).

Now, go study every letter from a to z and see what kinda crazy idea you can come up with! “define a, define b, define c ….”

How can we expand on this formula? Is this formula flawed?

Also: check out how “Google searches are rising for “what does my name mean”.

Is Klout the next Tweetdeck? (view of relevant influencers)

scaffeoa — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:17:36 -0400

Is Klout the next Tweetdeck? (view of relevant influencers):

Twitter recently purchased Tweetdeck for 50 million given that Ubermedia, the owner of Tweetdeck, was becoming too much of a competitor of Twitter’s thus threatening the future share and influence twitter has on its ecosystem.

scaffeoa — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:10:42 -0400

Kurzweil: 3 Supplements To Let You Live Until The Singularity (video)

scaffeoa — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:06:56 -0400

HILTER announced dead on May 1, 1945

scaffeoa — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:29:00 -0400

Osama Bin Laden announced dead on May 1, 2011, 66 years after Hitler!