PORTABLE OPEN STREET MAP (POSM)
source: http://news.spatialdev.com/portable-open-street-map/
The team is just getting started and you can follow along with the action here: https://github.com/AmericanRedCross/posm
Digital Democracy is working on something similar
http://www.digital-democracy.org/blog/open-maps-for-everyone/
just_testing explains the importance of it:
There are offline OpenStreetMap clients, but there aren’t ways to update said map offilne, or to create “mini-OSM” that later can sync with the main one.
Aral Balkan: “You Are The Product”
https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html#balkan
Inspiring, depressing and insightful talk (2015, TU/e)
Aral Balkan talks about our digital self, systemic inequality, and ethical design.
1914 map of how long it took travel to different places from London.
Bartholomew, J. G. (John George); Lyde, Lionel William: An atlas of economic geography. 1914.
View/download the complete atlas here.
A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities
An article in the journal Science reported a type of machine learning that outperformed human capabilities for a narrow range of vision-related tasks.
Source: A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities
Global Rich List
Didn’t make it onto the yearly roll call of the mega-wealthy? Why not find out where you’d actually sit in comparison to the rest of the world? You might be surprised.
Source: Global Rich List
How to Create Social Sharing Button without any Plugin and Script Loading? WordPress Speed Optimization Goal
We can’t imagine a site without Social Sharing button. It’s must and absolutely required. As title mentions in this tutorial we will go over steps on how
Getting Started with the WordPress Customizer | CSS-Tricks
The following is a guest post by Scott Fennell, a WordPress theme & plugin developer in Anchorage, AK and a regular contributor around here. Let’s say you
Source: Getting Started with the WordPress Customizer | CSS-Tricks
Controversial Quantum Machine Bought by NASA and Google Shows Promise | MIT Technology Review
Researchers from Google’s AI Lab say a controversial quantum machine that it and NASA bought in 2013 resoundingly beat a conventional computer in a series of tests.
Source: Controversial Quantum Machine Bought by NASA and Google Shows Promise | MIT Technology Review