Link - Automation and Jobs
You can't work here Dave
Technology Review - A new report promises that Automation is going to create new jobs as it replaces existing ones, if not more. Though as I understand it the problem has never been that AI will cause permanent unemployment problems, but like any disruption displace people near the end of their careers who are not as easily retrained. Like . . .
Link Post - App Magic App
That was the least bad Bowie Pun I could come up with.
Mental Floss - If you didn't live in a town where the traveling Bowie exhibit stopped, it is now being turned into a smartphone app.
Link Post - Social Fasting
Disco Posse - I used to think that most of these media diet trend stories were idiotic. But considering that both Facebook and Twitter are nigh unusable because of all the idiots clicking share before thinking, I agree that a break might be necessary. Intermittent fasting isn't a bad way to approach this. Not using it as just an idle time . . .
Link Post - 35 Best NES Games
Your daily dose of feeling old.
Jeremy Parish of Retronauts fame rounds up the best NES games still worth playing on its 35th anniversary.
Link Post: AI Time Wasting
Teaching AI To Beat Text Adventures
The Register - Microsoft makes a Text Adventure for AI's. I'll be impressed when an AI can figure out how to get the Babel Fish.
Link Post - How A Typo Can Ruin A Game
A Study In QA and Crunch Time Development
Ars Technica - Tether and Teather made all the difference in the performance of the AI in the notoriously bad Aliens: Colonial Maries.