Blog posts tagged: tech

7 part interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

See the 2005 commencement speech at Stanford by Steve Jobs.

Pretty cool map of the Internet

We're starting to see more and more contests which propel technology beyond their current boundaries. In these contents, an objective is given which has never been accomplished, and a cash prize is given for the first person or team of people to figure out the objective. This is a great thing, and wealthy people should be doing this same thing for their fields of interest. In 10 years or so, I plan to setup some similar prizes. It?s a good way to make your life useful and help advance civilization. I believe that this type of prize system will only increase in the future. It will become people?s full time careers to pursue some of these breakthroughs, or be sponsored by a company that is pursuing them. A good example of this is the Ansari X prize. Other more recent examples are the Hutter prize for compression human knowledge, and the anti-aging research prize.

There is a new contest relating to compression here. All you have to do is beat the previous record and you can win up to 50,000 Euro.