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Curated News - The online future is personal, and that requires big data — Tech News and Analysis

March 24, 2012

We are now capable of collecting and analyzing orders of magnitude more information than at any other time in history,” thanks to the database tools we have, Kimball said, but “the one constrained resource is understanding.

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Curated News - If It Weren't For Tim Cook, The iPad Would Have Cost $5,000

March 24, 2012

The real reason Apple is the most valuable company in the world right now isn’t that it makes ultra-sexy iPads and iPhones. It’s because it makes ultra-sexy iPhones and iPads and charges the same price as its rivals, or less, for those gadgets.

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Curated News - Big Data + Mobile + Sensors + Visualization + Gamification = Quantified Self | TopCoder, Inc.

March 24, 2012

individuals are about to gain the power of digesting their own data creation in incredibly compelling ways.

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Curated News - Big Data + Mobile + Sensors + Visualization + Gamification = Quantified Self | TopCoder, Inc.

March 24, 2012

The movement represents a game-changing shift in how individuals – not multi-billion dollar corporations, but individuals – create & digest data in order to affect personal change.

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Curated News - Big Data + Mobile + Sensors + Visualization + Gamification = Quantified Self | TopCoder, Inc.

March 24, 2012

In its most concise form, self quantification is the tracking of daily activities through technologies, delivering back to the user some “performance” analytics. The data and metrics help the user alter a behavior in order to self-improve.

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Curated News - Big Data + Mobile + Sensors + Visualization + Gamification = Quantified Self | TopCoder, Inc.

March 24, 2012

This movement is about to get huge as the sheer volume of those classifying themselves as self-quantifiers is doubling annually.

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Curated News - What is the Future of Social Media Analysis? | SmartData Collective

March 24, 2012

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Curated News - Business: Where angels will tread | The Economist

March 24, 2012

Some 90% of the world’s data have been generated in the past two years.

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Curated News - Researchers prove that memories reside in specific brain cells | KurzweilAI

March 23, 2012

Our results show that memories really do reside in very specific brain cells,” says says co-author Xu Liu, a postdoc in Tonegawa’s lab, “and simply by reactivating these cells by physical means, such as light, an entire memory can be recalled.

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Curated News - Researchers prove that memories reside in specific brain cells | KurzweilAI

March 23, 2012

“We demonstrate that behavior based on high-level cognition, such as the expression of a specific memory, can be generated in a mammal by highly specific physical activation of a specific small subpopulation of brain cells, in this case by light,” says Susumu Tonegawa

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We are now capable of collecting and analyzing orders of magnitude more information than at any other time in history,” thanks to the database tools we have, Kimball said, but “the one constrained resource is understanding.

The real reason Apple is the most valuable company in the world right now isn’t that it makes ultra-sexy iPads and iPhones. It’s because it makes ultra-sexy iPhones and iPads and charges the same price as its rivals, or less, for those gadgets.

individuals are about to gain the power of digesting their own data creation in incredibly compelling ways.

The movement represents a game-changing shift in how individuals – not multi-billion dollar corporations, but individuals – create & digest data in order to affect personal change.

In its most concise form, self quantification is the tracking of daily activities through technologies, delivering back to the user some “performance” analytics. The data and metrics help the user alter a behavior in order to self-improve.

This movement is about to get huge as the sheer volume of those classifying themselves as self-quantifiers is doubling annually.

As people today create increasingly more data through social media channels, companies, government and academia have little choice but to engage with it to further enhance consumer experiences, create better products and services and understand human behaviour online and offline.

Some 90% of the world’s data have been generated in the past two years.

Our results show that memories really do reside in very specific brain cells,” says says co-author Xu Liu, a postdoc in Tonegawa’s lab, “and simply by reactivating these cells by physical means, such as light, an entire memory can be recalled.

“We demonstrate that behavior based on high-level cognition, such as the expression of a specific memory, can be generated in a mammal by highly specific physical activation of a specific small subpopulation of brain cells, in this case by light,” says Susumu Tonegawa