AI, ABMs, and fun new stuff

First, let's dive into a few new additions to the site this week that will make your life so much easier. All add pages (add people, add sites, and add tags) have had a face lift and will provide an easier and more efficient way to grow your pin. My favorite addition was the NEW sites tab within add sites. However, it does take a section away from my Friday blog posts, but now you can see all new sites within the last week on one page. (If you have visited the site recently you should know this, due to a neat little notification bar at the top of our site, that's new too!)

Onto a much more complex issue surrounding the future of the web, computing artificial intelligence. Kevin and I recently had a meeting with Mikhail Gorelkin, and one of the highlights we discussed was around computing complex algorithms. As the web gets smarter and with the introduction of semantic and adaptive websites, the resources to power these sites will be incredibly large and quite costly. You must find a way to spread out and diversify certain functions, maybe personalized vs. basic. If you are able to split certain profiles and assign certain machines to compute these algorithms on the fly, you will be able to achieve cost effecitve, real time accurate personalization. Enter agent based computational models or multi agent systems. Without diving into too much detail in this post (I smell a whitepaper) what this will allow us to do is diversify computing systems(agents) and accurately measure personalized network structures by monitoring the actions(decisions) and relationships of agents (users), which tend to be of their own interests, interacting within a closed system. The outcome if done correctly will try to predict your thoughts, make trusted decisions on a users behalf, and define the future. Using artificial intelligence to mimic your intelligence.

Yikes, that was way too intense for a Friday.

New sites this week:

Check the new sites module on Pinyadda (suckers)

Cya next week,

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