A new radio format is becoming popular: Boasting they’re “like an iPod on shuffle,” the new stations typically dump their disc jockeys in favor of huge song playlists that mimic a well-stocked portable music player. The Jack format, which is already spawning imitators, could be a key to FM’s survival as an alternative to satellite [...]

One of the first real successes of the AI community was in the field of expert systems. The idea goes like this: what if we could distill all of the experience, knowledge, and wisdom of an expert in a field and put all of that concentrated knowledge into a computer program? Then anyone could use [...]

I’m going to write a series of posts on artificial intelligence. I don’t know how many posts there will be, I’m just going to keep writing about it until I’m done. I have many thoughts and opinions on the subject, as I’ve been thinking about it off and on for about 14 years now. But [...]

via Geof Amount of music on your computer? iTunes sez 2774 songs, 7.7 days, 15.04 GB of AAC files. This is with… 3/4ths of my CD collection ripped into iTunes at 192kbps (so it takes up a huge amount of space.) I have an additional 8.8 GB (1997 files) of mp3s in various directories of [...]