Lifeboat Foundation

by Frederic Lardinois — TechCrunch

Designing a good-looking website has never been easy, and while many services promise to let you build a site without ever having to touch any code, you quickly reach their limits if you want to have a more advanced site. The Grid, which is launching its crowdfunding campaign today, promises to do away with all of this. Instead of designing your site pixel by pixel yourself, The Grid team wants to use artificial intelligence to design your site based on your content and goals (more followers, more customers, higher sales, etc.).

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WHITE SWAN BOOK: 10 Threats Worse Than Artificial Intelligence http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-devices/10-thre…id/1318210

WHITE SWAN BOOK: KURZWEIL: Human-Level AI Is Coming By 2029 http://www.businessinsider.com/ray-kurzweil-thinks-well-have…014-12

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Quoted: “If you understand the core innovations around the blockchain idea, you’ll realize that the technology concept behind it is similar to that of a database, except that the way you interact with that database is very different.

The blockchain concept represents a paradigm shift in how software engineers will write software applications in the future, and it is one of the key concepts behind the Bitcoin revolution that need to be well understood. In this post, I’d like to explain 5 of these concepts, and how they interrelate to one another in the context of this new computing paradigm that is unravelling in front of us. They are: the blockchain, decentralized consensus, trusted computing, smart contracts and proof of work / stake. This computing paradigm is important, because it is a catalyst for the creation of decentralized applications, a next-step evolution from distributed computing architectural constructs.

Read the article here > http://startupmanagement.org/2014/12/27/the-blockchain-is-th…verything/

Pete Rizzo — Coindesk

A member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines has introduced a bill that would seek to create a government-backed “e-peso” that would serve as an official medium of exchange for domestic online payments.

Introduced as part of the E-Peso Act of 2014, the payments tool would be considered legal tender for debt, taxes and goods and services, according to a report by The Philippine Star.

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Quoted: “Two individual blockchains have been successfully linked, as Blocknet announced last night that Xbridge technology had for the first time allowed communications between nodes on two separate blockchains through their Xhub protocol. Aiming to construct “the internet of blockchains,” the new protocol is designed to allow separate blockchains to inter-operate.”

Read the article here > Arms Race — Blockchain 2.0

Corporate Reconnoitering?

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Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

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WHITE SWAN BOOK: Google’s Secretive DeepMind Startup Unveils a “Neural Turing Machine” http://www.technologyreview.com/view/532156/googles-secretiv…g-machine/

WHITE SWAN BOOK: Hundreds of Portuguese Buses and Taxis Are Also Wi-Fi Routers http://www.technologyreview.com/news/533176/hundreds-of-port…i-routers/

DER SPIEGEL: Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA’s War on Internet Security http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s…10361.html

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By Dave Parrack — Gizmag

Microsoft Research has moved on from IllumiRoom, its concept for adding visuals to the periphery of gamers’ television sets. After concluding that that system — which used a Kinect camera and a projector to bring video games into the living room — was too expensive to be released commercially, the company has revealed RoomAlive, which is even more expensive and even less practical. Thankfully, it’s also an intriguing glimpse at the possible future of gaming.

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Actuarial Sciences Suffice?

QUESTION: Actuarial Sciences Suffice?

ANSWER: Absolutely used by actuaries and some futurists, actuarial sciences are structurally linear and incomplete in a world mired by explosive nonlinearity, fluidly and incessantly.

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