June 2010
1 post
Lawrence Lessig Killed Coke for Me
On May 27th, Lawrence Lessig gave a talk at Dartmouth about rebooting our democracy. He started by making a case how the US government subsidizes obese kids, by subsidizing corn and erecting tariffs against pure cane sugar; then the price of corn becomes negative and high fructose corn syrup is stuffed into 40% of the products. BTW my doc said pure cane sugar will make you obese still.
But...
May 2010
3 posts
Jim Hendler's Social Machines
Jim Hendler of RPI has visited with our group last week and gave a talk at the Jones seminar. Jim is a cool guy deeply immersed in semantic web and more so in the human one. He brandished the first iPad I’ve seen, neatly tucked into a magenta rubber case and a zipped larger case. Now there’s somebody who understands how to care for gadgets properly.
Jim’s talk was about...
What Does Twitter Compute?
When discussing social network processes with Sergey Bratus, we’ve come to a formulation and a question. The latter is worth a few PhDs.
A Twitter is a social computer. It’s a computing network. What does it compute?
My thesis is, a form of social capital. A kind of a social future; it molds perceptions, forms groups, elevates ideas, inflates and crushes hopes, etc. How can we...
The Khrabrov Update, May 2010
Greetings friends — it’s been a while since we’ve been in touch with some of you, so the time has come to tell a few stories of what we’ve been up to.
In 2007, I left Amazon to catch up on a project of pretty high importance: my family. I wanted to live in Moscow with Olga, my then future — and now current — wife. First, I did what I wanted for a while...
December 2009
1 post
Testing MarsEdit=>Tumblr/Markdown Setup
Well, it’s time to write.