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Neil Movold

The Hidden Secrets of the Creative Mind - 0 views

  • Virtually all of them. Many people believe creativity comes in a sudden moment of insight and that this "magical" burst of an idea is a different mental process from our everyday thinking. But extensive research has shown that when you're creative, your brain is using the same mental building blocks you use every day—like when you figure out a way around a traffic jam.
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    What is creativity? Where does it come from? The workings of the creative mind have been subjected to intense scrutiny over the past 25 years by an army of researchers in psychology, sociology, anthropology and neuroscience. But no one has a better overview of this mysterious mental process than Washington University psychologist R. Keith Sawyer, author of the new book Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation (Oxford; 336 pages). He's working on a version for the lay reader, due out in 2007 from Basic Books. In an interview with Francine Russo, Sawyer shares some of his findings and suggests ways in which we can enhance our creativity not just in art, science or business but in everyday life.
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Don't blame the information for your bad habits - 0 views

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    We assign blame for our overconsumption in odd ways. Gulp down one too many cupcakes and that's 100% on you. Yet, if you're overwhelmed by the fire hose/deluge/tsunami of information, blame must be placed elsewhere: on those glutton-minded information sources or the overall degradation of society or ... anywhere really, as long as it doesn't reflect back on your own lack of control. Information overload seems to always be someone else's fault.
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Querying the Whole Web of Data: a vision - 0 views

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    The holy grail of the Semantic Web is to have intelligent agents that will be able to do all types of stuff for us, similar to what Siri is starting to do. Imagine my Semantic Web agent knows that I'll be traveling to Bonn, Germany and will make a reservation at a restaurant that it thinks that I would like and that a friend has recommended. Theoretically, this is possible if all the data on the Web was published as Linked Data. Just imagine TripIt data linked to Facebook and to DBpedia which in turn is linked to Yelp and OpenTable. My Semantic Web agent would be able to query all of this data together and pull it off.
Neil Movold

Evaluating Text Extraction Algorithms - 0 views

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    Lately I've been working on evaluating and comparing algorithms, capable of extractinguseful content from arbitrary html documents. Before continuing I encourage you to pass trough some of my previous posts, just to get a better feel of what we're dealing with; I've written a short overview, compiled a list of resources if you want to dig deeper and made a feature wise comparison of related software and APIs.
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Real-time sensemaking with SCAN - 0 views

  • What do we do when we don’t know what to do? – and how do we ensure that whatever we do is the right thing to do? How do we make sense fast, at business-speed?
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    What do we do when we don't know what to do? - and how do we ensure that whatever we do is the right thing to do? How do we make sense fast, at business-speed?
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What Was Impossible Is Now Possible - 0 views

  • When beliefs change everything changes. With each year that passes one thing is certain, things will change. However the pace of change is no longer as usual and instead has become unusual. These unusual changes are influencing our beliefs. Whether for business or personal one change is certain, what used to be impossible is now possible.
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    When beliefs change everything changes. With each year that passes one thing is certain, things will change. However the pace of change is no longer as usual and instead has become unusual. These unusual changes are influencing our beliefs. Whether for business or personal one change is certain, what used to be impossible is now possible.
Neil Movold

Disruptive Thinkers Change Everything - 0 views

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    When competition can develop better products, better delivery, better marketing and stronger customer relations at lower cost you lose, they win.  Competitors like these are not competitors you already know they are those you don't know yet.  However they are coming and they will run you over and take your market share at the click of a mouse. Look at Apple, Groupon or Foursquare. All have launched game-changing products-not by being first to market, but by rethinking the market's needs. They didn't just ask, "How can we make a better product?" They asked, "How can we better serve a need?" Interestingly, the need they addressed was often not being explicitly requested by the consumer. In his book The Innovator's Solution, Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen describes this as addressing "non-consumption." By offering a product to a specific part of the market that's not currently buying, you're not competing with an established incumbent but, rather, creating a new market. And, often, you're introducing economics that make it difficult for entrenched competitors in other parts of the market to compete.
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9 Tips for Activating the Entrepreneurial Spirit - 0 views

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    As an entrepreneur, I've been invited to guest lecture for entrepreneurial programs at colleges from Harvard to the University of Michigan. Each time I stood before a group of aspiring entrepreneurs, I couldn't help but wonder whether people could actually learn the needed skills and qualities to become a successful entrepreneur, or if we're born into said skills.
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WeKnowIt - Colective Intelligence - 0 views

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    WeKnowIt is a 3 year Integrated Project developing novel techniques for exploiting multiple layers of intelligence from user-generated content, which together constitute Collective Intelligence, a form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and contributions of many individuals.
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Critical Thinking: weapon, or tool for self-development? - 0 views

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    "He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb One of the most persistent suggestions for curing what ails American education at all levels is to help students develop "critical thinking." Everywhere, you find people complaining that college graduates don't know how to think critically. Neither do younger students.
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Conversations That Share Tacit Knowledge - 0 views

  • Now when I’m asked, “What's the most effective way for people to share their tacit knowledge?” I always think of Hans and the answer I give is: “Tacit knowledge needs to be shared through conversation.” My reasoning is as follows. Our tacit knowledge is drawn from our experience as well as our years of study and is stored in bits and pieces in our brain, that is, it is not stored as answers or explanations but as fragments. What we call “tacit knowledge” is the human ability to draw on those fragments to construct a response to a new problem or question. Tacit knowledge is particularly useful when we are faced with a complex problem. By complex I mean a problem that does not have a factual, right or wrong answer, for example, "What architectural design would best fit this physical space and meet the needs of the client?" or “How would you stop an oil leak 5000 feet under water?” When an expert like Joachim faces a complex problem he brings together those bits and pieces of his experience and study that are relevant to that specific problem situation and puts those together to form a solution. Because he is embedded in the situation he knows the context and the end goal. In bringing together those bits and pieces that are in his head, he conducts, what Don Schon would call, a “reflective conversation with the situation.”
  • Tacit knowledge, then, is constructed in response to a question or to a problem at a specific moment in time. It is a magnificent human capability we have to be able to continually reconstruct what we know into new forms to face new situations.
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    Now when I'm asked, "What's the most effective way for people to share their tacit knowledge?" I always think of Hans and the answer I give is: "Tacit knowledge needs to be shared through conversation." My reasoning is as follows. Our tacit knowledge is drawn from our experience as well as our years of study and is stored in bits and pieces in our brain, that is, it is not stored as answers or explanations but as fragments. What we call "tacit knowledge" is the human ability to draw on those fragments to construct a response to a new problem or question.
Neil Movold

No real Artificial Intelligence in the next 40 years - 0 views

  • The real issue is that we don’t understand how human intelligence and “consciousness” work.
  • We don’t know the principles behind it; we can superficially imitate it but we cannot build something like it, or better – for now.What we need is a “cognitive computing” model (a theory) before we can build machines around it.
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    Can computing and science fiction collide to create a true Artificial Intelligence? A.I has been part of our computing landscape for a long time, first as an idea, then taking baby steps, thing started to move in the early days of computers. After that, there was a period of disillusion and with the rise of cloud computing and massively parallel consumer-level chips A.I is more than ever on our lips and in our minds - but how far are we really from the awakening of a digital form of consciousness?
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Sense-making through conversation - asking and telling - 0 views

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    Sense-making consists of both asking and telling. It's a continuing series of conversations. We know that conversation is the main way that tacit knowledge gets shared. So we continuously seek out explicit knowledge, in the form of written work or other knowledge artifacts left by others. We then have conversations around these artifacts to make sense of them. Finally, we share new, explicit knowledge artifacts which then grow our bodies of knowledge. Sharing closes the circle, because being a personal knowledge manager is every professional's part of the social learning contract.
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Why eBay is buying recommendation engine Hunch - accessing the "Taste Graph" - 0 views

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    EBay said it will use Hunch's "taste graph" technology to provide its users with non-obvious recommendations for items based on their unique tastes. The company said it will also apply Hunch's technology to other areas such as search, advertising and marketing, in order to better surface product information based on its customers' tastes.
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Schema.org - Why You're Behind if You're Not Using It... - 0 views

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    If someone told you that there was a quick and easy way that many of you could improve your SERP CTR for minimal effort, you'd all stop in your tracks and give them full attention. Yet, Schema.org and rich snippets are still horribly under-utilized. Since Google (and Bing!) officially introduced schema.org in June, it's fair to say motivation to implement it has been mixed. However since its introduction Schema.org has already evolved a lot, adding a lot of new stuff that people haven't paid attention to. Here I try to persuade you there are few downsides and plenty of upsides.
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Top Mobile Developer Priorities of 2011: Reach, Engagement, Loyalty & Monetization - 0 views

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    If you are a mobile developer, the findings of a report from framework provider Appcelerator and research firm IDC are fascinating. The Kindle Fire is, well, on fire. So, apparently, is the Barnes & Noble Nook Android tablet. Nokia and Microsoft are making headway with Windows Phone, BlackBerry continues its free fall and HTML5 has superseded everything but iOS and Android in developer interest. Freemium is becoming the standard mobile business model and with that developers are looking for tools to scale, create loyalty and enhance engagement to increase monetization. You can access the full report here. Check out our commentary and analysis below. Developers: what are your priorities and monetization strategies?
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Common Crawl - 5 billion pages! - 0 views

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    Today, thanks to the robust system that Ahad has built, we have an open repository of crawl data that covers approximately 5 billion pages and includes valuable metadata, such as page rank and link graphs. All of our data is stored on Amazon's S3 and is accessible to anyone via EC2.
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It's the Network... - 0 views

  • The learning delivery model is being obsolesced by ubiquitous connectivity and diverse social networks.
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    How do you manage a workforce that is both nomadic and collaborative? In a 24/7 always-on- and-interconnected world, do we need to rethink the industrial-workplace social contract that's based on hours worked and being on-the-job ? Join Harold Jarche to discuss how these and other trends mean a shift to perpetual Beta, where learning is the work.
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