On 27 Apr 2009, at 15:36, Paul Harwood wrote:
Ah! modern internet humor is wasted on me. I prefer faulty towers
style humor.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4138503225675059137
This flickr data is valuable though? not just eye candy, especially
if shared and open. Feeding it into something like the new wolfram
engine along with say coordinates of power stations, you could
compute VERY rough temporal energy consumption maps pretty quickly I
guess amongst a multitude of other much better probable uses. (don't
shoot me down, probably the worst example I could have thought of).
Interesting ? :-) Accidental mapping could reveal a lot about 'us'
when coupled with other bits of pretty mundane static data.
If you missed it and have half an hour, here is an interesting
Wolfram interview; he mentions geodata in some of the spoken demo's
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/rudy-rucker-talks-to-stephen-wolfram/16378510
Yeah I've had the privilege of a demo too, it's pretty. Once upon a
time I worked at wolfram.
These kind of interfaces to data are going to be really interesting,
and hey one more step to the singularity!
Best
Steve
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