In just 4 hours Deepmind AI trained it self to play chess, without the use of any chess play libraries and was able to defeat the world champion chess-playing program, Stockfish. [...]
While inspecting the roof of our country cottage barn preparing to replace the barge-boards I noticed some severe dry rot at the top. As I liked the perspective I took a picture. I did not realise at the time that I literal had a surprise waiting under my fingertips!
Various themes are combined by Maciej Ceglowski into a thoughtful, though bleak, talk on the development of the commercial internet: "The Internet with a human face" delivered at the Beyond Tellerrand 2014 Conference
With starting Red Planet Dust I had multiple objectives but without having a clear goal or format in mind. One of my objectives was to gain first hand experience to [...]
Finextra: Bitcoin exchange MT. Gox introduces account verification: In a statement on its Web site about the new verification system, MT. Gox says: "The Bitcoin market continues to evolve, as [...]
Now, with the media hype about bitcoin residing a little over the last two weeks it is time to get into the reflective mode. Today Leika Consult releases the first [...]
(This is part 6 of a series of posts that will be bundled in apaper on crypto-currencies at Red Planet Dust. See for Part 1) We need to understand our [...]
In an earlier post I referred to an analysis that showed the effect of lead on the development of crime in our societies. We have difficulty seeing longer term developments, [...]
Yesterday, I attended a conference of EACHA, the European Association of Automatic Clearing Houses (in SEPA parlance CSM’s: Clearing and Settlement Mechanisms) in Berlin. This is a group of payments [...]
What we today perceive as money is the result of thousands of years of evolution. And looking at history, why we would be the “lucky guys” to live in the [...]
The article of Felix Salmon ”The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency” triggered me to write a series of posts on Crypto-currency at Red Planet Dust (see part 1). [...]
Big data will push out human factor more and more in decision-making. An interesting quote from the economist article "How might your choice of browser affect your job prospects?" underlines [...]
(This is part 3 of an article on crypto-currencies at Red Planet Dust. See for Part 1, Part 2) Human collaboration is based on trust. We do not have a [...]
(This is part 2 of an article on crypto-currencies at Red Planet Dust. See for Part 1) Many call Bitcoin “digital money” but not all types of digital money are [...]
While aware of bitcoin for some time being professionally involved in payments, my interest in bitcoin was triggered when I had the opportunity to discuss bitcoin backgrounds and developments with [...]
With February 2014 looming around the corner and many companies scrambling to get their act together to implement SEPA in time it might be regarded as to early to start [...]
Most people are not aware about the staggering amount of standardisations that is scoping their lives. Most probably you are reading this post on some sort of electronic device that [...]
Payments are about the logistics to transfer money (value) from one to an other. Governments have long tried to control the mechanisms to pay as payments are an important part [...]
In an earlier post I stated that we are changing due to the effects of placing our memory outside of our brains (aka “exomemory”) and suggested that is even taking [...]
Traffic Jams: the ultimate in human collaboration When thinking about the daily horror of traffic jams most will just have negative associations with the incapability of humans to [...]
In an earlier post I pointed to an undercurrent tech trend I dubbed "unified devices" for lack of better terminology at hand: a reality where users can pick up any [...]
Marco Arment has been very successful in creating Instapaper and more recently The Magazine app. Arment has been experimenting with new business models for electronic publishing. In his recent blog-post [...]
Whenever I talk to people within the payments industry about Bitcoin the absence of a central issuer and the regulatory void it is operating in will be one of the [...]
For those who use Dropbox it is synonymous with seamless file synching and sharing over multiple devices. Mailbox is a very recently launched email-client - Gmail centric for the time [...]
Often I hear business managers solely talk about the "WHAT"-part of their envisioned strategy, the easy part. "Team we have a new strategy! We want to set up a base-camp [...]
