Launching Tech Ventures: The Cognitive Startup The customer usage data collected through rapid prototyping and iteration is essentially building a limbic system—a gut—that gives feedback on how customers are responding to the product. But a gut is not sufficient.

Jonathan Cohn: Why Don’t We Know Anything About The Quality Of America’s Day Care? | The New Republic To be sure, measuring the quality of day care is difficult. It’s hard to find good ways to measure quality, let alone collect the information. In that sense, it’s the same problem that plagues efforts to measure […]

Amazon EC2 Now #42 Supercomputer, IBM BlueGenes in the Dust Fujitsu’s architecture for “K” is based on a theoretical six-dimensional torus, which reduces the hop count for processes between nodes by half or more, and which enables as many as 12 fault-tolerance failovers per node.

Tangotiger on knowing when you have added value “Really, I figured: what is it that I as a single human being know more than the collective wisdom? I had no insight to add, that was really value-added. It’s hard for a person to recognize that he has nothing of value to add, but that’s how […]