c o n d e n s e d fact b l o g

Chile Quake Shifted Earth's Axis

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The Onion

Postgarden

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Springwise

Talk is cheap

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Springwise

The State of The Internet

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JESS3 on Vimeo

Tweeting TED

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Nokia TED - Data Visualization

Apple Form Factor Evolution

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Flickr - Adam Crowe

Countries I've Visited

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TravBuddy Profile

Visualizing the Unusual

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Flickr: Adam Crowe's Photostream

The Most Efficient Way to Type

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FlowingData:

Obama’s Budget Proposal and Incorrect Forecasts

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FlowingData

People in motion: who moves where, when and why

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:21:00 +0000

United Nations - Human Development Report 2009

Hitler Finds out about Nokia's free Ovi Maps

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:07:00 +0000

YouTube - Maps for Free & Forever

Money & Politics

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YouTube

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The Chess Master and the Computer

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:00:00 +0000

The New York Review of Books:

"Instead of a computer that thought and played chess like a human, with human creativity and intuition, they got one that played like a machine, systematically evaluating 200 million possible moves on the chess board per second and winning with brute number-crunching force.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience."

"Advanced Chess." Each player had a PC at hand running the chess software of his choice during the game. The idea was to create the highest level of chess ever played, a synthesis of the best of man and machine.
Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a strong computer alone and, more remarkably, superior to a strong human + machine + inferior process."