“The TSA is experimenting with software that tries to detect, by scanning body language, which plane passengers have hostile intentions.”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“As Pole's computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a 'pregnancy prediction' score. More important, he could also estimate her due date to within a small window, so Target could send coupons timed to…”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“As in chess, we can expect to see dramatic gains in the personal and professional lives of people who interpret machine feedback—of all kinds—quickly. A particular personality trait that doesn't come easily to everyone will be needed in a lot of situations: the ability to handle or maybe just ignore…”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“It's interesting to see how Cleverbot convinces a lot of people that it is human. It doesn't try to respond logically to every query, or to correctly parse every sentence from the human. Instead it tries to mimic how an incoherent or slightly crazed human would converse—or perhaps how a pickup artis…”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“Outsourcing is still a smaller phenomenon than many people think. Currently imports from China are measured at about 2.7 percent of US consumer spending. Furthermore, for each dollar of imports from China, about fifty-five cents was ultimately spent in the United States preparing the import in some…”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“Immigration is vital to the future economic vitality of the United States. If that immigration is Latino, as indeed it often is in the United States, the longer-run effect is to build up entrepreneurship and democratic values in the other countries in this hemisphere.”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“Southern Germany is an extremely productive region and we can expect it will become more crowded and also more productive. The top German firms are generating some impressive learning curves.”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“...studies of spelling bees show that the winning spellers are those who not only work hard, but who engage in disciplined forms of study that do not always yield immediate positive feedback.”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“Of course, educational institutions aren't ready to admit how much they share with churches. These temples of secularism don't want to admit they are about simple tasks such as motivating the slugs or acculturating people into the work habits and sociological expectations of the so-called educated c…”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“It is rumored that Richard Eng, one of the leading tutor kings, pulls in $1.5 million a year; his face is on billboards, he drives a Lamborghini, and his license plate reads simply 'Richard.'”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“An intelligent machine might come up with a new theory of cosmology, and perhaps no human will be able to understand or articulate that theory. Maybe it will refer to non-visualizable dimensions of space or nonintuitive understandings of time. The machine will tell us that the theory makes good pred…”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“Men, on the other hand, were on edge. Moore goes so far in the study as to say that for men, public toilets are 'nightmarish spaces.' The anxiety they reported was centered around 'watching'—being watched by other men, or being perceived to be watching other men—and that this watching was linked to…”— Julie Beck, theatlantic.com
“At the beginning of the new moon, for example, one's acetylcholine rises along with the capacity to perform. Acetylcholine is traditionally associated with attention. 'The mood it evokes in us is an Energizer Bunny-like pep. That vibe can be used to initiate social interactions, do chores and routin…”— Dr. Mark Filippi, amazon.com
“Over the next week, we can enjoy the benefits of increased dopamine. This chemical—responsible for the rush one gets on heroin or after performing a death-defying stunt—is responsible for reward-driven learning. 'It allows us to expand our behaviors outside of our routines, decrease our intensity, a…”— Dr. Mark Filippi, amazon.com
“Finally, in the last moon phase, we are dominated by norepinephrine, an arousal chemical that regulates processes like the flight-or-flight response, anxiety, and other instinctual behaviors. 'We tend to be better off doing more structural tasks that don't involve a lot of reflection. Its binary nat…”— Dr. Mark Filippi, amazon.com
“Nearer to the full moon, an uptick in serotonin increases self-awareness, generating both high focus and high energy. Serotonin, the chemical that gets boosted by drugs like Prozac, is thought to communicate the abundance or dearth of food resources to our brain. 'When under its influence we can fee…”— Dr. Mark Filippi, amazon.com
“...children's playground activity has been observed to be paced by just one or two youngsters who move about seemingly randomly from one group to another, establishing fairly precise rhythms of activity. Social scientists believe this collaborative pacing allows for high levels of group coherence as…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“Leaving people in rooms with no external time cues, researchers found that the average person's biological clock would actually lengthen to a twenty-five-hour cycle. This, they concluded, is why traveling east, which shortens the day, is so much more disorienting than traveling west, which lengthens…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“...the survival of a species depends on adaptation and learning on six distinct timescales. On the shortest, most immediate scale, species must exist from year to year. The unit of survival for this year-to-year existence is the individual life form. Over decades, the unit of survival is the family,…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com