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Diego Morelli

Semantics & Thought Networking in Primal Fusion Alpha Release - 0 views

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    Primal Fusion is a Waterloo-based startup that is about to come out of stealth mode, with a technology focused in semantic data retrieval. You can find transcription of the main issues of this video presentation down here below: .......
Levy Rivers

The brain's silent majority - 2009 FALL - Stanford Medicine Magazine - Stanford Univers... - 0 views

  • Unlike their flashier electronic cousins, glia speak in chemical whispers. Learning their language has been tougher. As a result, glial cells were long seen as inert nerve cement: just so many packing peanuts whose raison d’être is to keep our neurons from jiggling when we jog.
  • Because the placement and relative strengths of the brain’s 100-trillion-plus synapses are so intimately associated with what defines us — learning, thinking, feeling, remembering and forgetting — in a strictly material sense one could say the soul resides in the synapses.
Kerry J

The NOSE: Information Technology in Higher Education: Facebook is Insecure - 0 views

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    One of the surprising things that I learned pretty quickly (as an IT professional I should know this and should have checked it beforehand) is that the Facebook login session is unencrypted, which means that any five year old can hack into a Facebook account by sniffing passwords on the network. Encrypting login sessions is such a basic security measure that it's scandalous that the default login page for Facebook does not use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
Diego Morelli

Tangible Knowledge & Social Media - 0 views

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    Here's an interesting description by D. Roberts about social media as a collection of knowledge assets that have to be organized, in order to achieve what he calls "Tangible Knowledge, the Holy grail of finance". Some highlights from my transcription below... (continue...)
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