Comments on: Cyborg chess-masters http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5194 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:58:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: The outboard brain « Snarkmarket http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5194/comment-page-1#comment-12344 The outboard brain « Snarkmarket Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:07:41 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=5194#comment-12344 [...] also this post from Feb­ru­ary about com­put­ers and chess play­ers work­ing not against each other but [...] […] also this post from Feb­ru­ary about com­put­ers and chess play­ers work­ing not against each other but […]

]]> By: QWERTY, your day has come « Snarkmarket http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5194/comment-page-1#comment-8763 QWERTY, your day has come « Snarkmarket Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:51:50 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=5194#comment-8763 [...] The fail­ure of alter­na­tive typ­ing scheme is well-chronicled. But doesn’t the iPad change the equa­tion entirely? You could seam­lessly exper­i­ment and fall back to a stan­dard key­board if you got too frus­trated, or if you were in a hurry. Other users could switch over to a stan­dard key­board instead of being stuck with your chorded mon­ster. You could even—this is the cool part—design a chorded key­board that coached you along the way! The key­board could be on your team. [...] […] The fail­ure of alter­na­tive typ­ing scheme is well-chronicled. But doesn’t the iPad change the equa­tion entirely? You could seam­lessly exper­i­ment and fall back to a stan­dard key­board if you got too frus­trated, or if you were in a hurry. Other users could switch over to a stan­dard key­board instead of being stuck with your chorded mon­ster. You could even—this is the cool part—design a chorded key­board that coached you along the way! The key­board could be on your team. […]

]]> By: Robin Sloan http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5194/comment-page-1#comment-8762 Robin Sloan Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:31:04 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=5194#comment-8762 Ha haha. I am a big fan of the evenly-spaced comments here. As if it's a real-time narrative of this idea being digested in your brain. A+! Ha haha. I am a big fan of the evenly-spaced comments here. As if it’s a real-time narrative of this idea being digested in your brain. A+!

]]> By: Tim Maly http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5194/comment-page-1#comment-8757 Tim Maly Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:21:21 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=5194#comment-8757 P.P.S. this is exactly the kind of intelligence that Lyotard describes in <em>The Postmodern Condition</em> P.P.S. this is exactly the kind of intelligence that Lyotard describes in The Postmodern Condition

]]> By: Tim Maly http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5194/comment-page-1#comment-8748 Tim Maly Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:02:42 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=5194#comment-8748 Hot on the heels of reading this, I came across Chris Suellentrop writing for Wired about how videogames are making players better at Football. Football! http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_gamechanger/all/1 Hot on the heels of reading this, I came across Chris Suellentrop writing for Wired about how videogames are making players better at Football. Football!

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_gamechanger/all/1

]]> By: Tim Maly http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5194/comment-page-1#comment-8745 Tim Maly Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:12:39 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=5194#comment-8745 This is basically the most Quiet Babylonian thing I've ever read on Snarkmarket. In fact I am working on an idea about outsourced intelligence RIGHT NOW, that as of this moment is going to steal heavily from this post. This is basically the most Quiet Babylonian thing I’ve ever read on Snarkmarket. In fact I am working on an idea about outsourced intelligence RIGHT NOW, that as of this moment is going to steal heavily from this post.

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