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西宮中国大使が死去 - 時事通信: 西宮伸一駐中国大使が１６日朝、死去した。政府関係者が明らかにした。西宮大使は１３日に東京都内の自宅近くの路上で倒れ、都内の病院で治療を受けていた。 （2012/… http://t.co/YQMKYGOR - John Conners

中国当局　反日デモに催涙弾 http://t.co/N28HBKkn [button] ◆ 中国当局、深センで催涙弾使用 中国・深センの反日デモで、日系スーパーに向かう参加者阻止のため公安当局が催涙弾を数発、発射。 2012/09/16 12:15 【共同通信】 - John Conners

【50RT】【速報】 中国大使の西宮信一（60）が死去。 就任わずか2日で渋谷の路上で意識不明になっていた・・・ http://t.co/ORKVfox3 - John Conners

反日デモ　突如暴徒化　北京　日本大使館前に１万人 http://t.co/OvVVOAVW 「28日後…」やリメイク版「DOTD」で同じ光景は見てるので、ビジュアルに斬新さはない。民主的でない国がデモに訴えるとこうなるのか、日本人がデモのやり方を間違えてるのか。多分両方だね。 - John Conners

北京市公安 公式アカウントの昨日最後のツイート　http://t.co/7icaVCT... - John Conners

西宮伸一 中国大使が死去 http://t.co/eC1KLwoO #nhk_news - John Conners

[IMAGE] [IMAGE] An anonymous reader writes "For the past five years, the 2K BotPrize has challenged artificial intelligence researchers and programmers to create a computer-game-playing bot that plays like a person. It's one thing to make bots that play computer games very well — computers are faster and more accurate than a person can ever be — but it's a different thing to make bots that are fun to play against. In a breakthrough result, after years of striving and improvement from 14 different international teams from nine countries, two teams have crossed the humanness barrier! The teams share $7000 in prize money and a trip to games company 2K's Canberra studio. The winners are the UT^2 team from the University of Texas at Austin, and Mihai Polceanu, a doctoral student from Romania, currently studying Artificial Intelligence at ENIB CERV — Centre de Réalité Virtuelle, Brest, France. The UT^2 team is Professor Risto Miikulainen, and doctoral students Jacob Schrum and Igor Karpov.... - John Conners

Screen Shot 2012-09-15 at 7.37.45 PM LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman has become known for giving solid advice — both to the entrepreneurs in which he invests, as well as the general public with his recent book The Startup Of You. So when he came backstage at Disrupt SF earlier this week after his fireside chat with Michael Arrington, we just had to ask him: What is some bad advice that people often give to entrepreneurs that they should ignore? According to Hoffman, one big mistake is listening to others talk too much about making money. He said: “People frequently try to talk about business models too early. The question comes down to, when you’re a seed stage company people say, ‘Well what’s your business model?’ And the answer is, a seed stage consumer company, you hopefully have some puzzle pieces and you’re thinking about what the business model might be, but if you say it with confidence, you’re wrong. because most often those change.” We also asked about... - John Conners

zuck-1-7 Continuing our look back at the SF Disrupt conference video highlights, Tuesday featured the standing-room only interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In his first interview since the IPO, he called his stock performance disappointing and talked about his biggest mistake. Investors focused on the positive comments, including progress in the mobile business, and Facebook’s market value soared $6.785 billion after the speech. It might be the first nearly $7 billion interview. Besides Zuckerberg, many other founders and entrepreneurs made news earlier in the day. Kevin Rose denied a leaked memo from Paul Graham that claimed Google Ventures was lowballing valuations. Benchmark Capital’s Matt Cohler told Michael Arrington he hasn’t made any startup investments this year. And Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff talked about how he thinks Google “squandered its enterprise opportunity.” Another 15 startups presented their demos in the last 3 Battlefield sessions. The first company... - John Conners

Google Research Publication: Spanner Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, JJ Furman, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter ... はてなブックマーク - Google Research Publication: Spanner はてなブックマークに追加 - John Conners

Always makes me laugh! - John Conners

Wow! Wasn't expecting that! - John Conners

Think I'll keep a printout of this framed to motivate me! ;) - John Conners

That is one happy toad! - John Conners

This is why I hate flying economy! - John Conners

Bizarre! - John Conners

He's right, that is scary. - John Conners

He's right, that is scary. - John Conners

Whoa! Glad that's not my family photo! - John Conners

Excellent! No longer does everybody have to speak English! - John Conners

Had me in stitches - although Rachael didn't "get" them! - John Conners

Ha ha, an interesting theory on the classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off... - John Conners

A very interesting 50 minutes that remind me Joel is a clever guy. - John Conners

This one's for you Stu! ;-) - John Conners

Cats are cool! - John Conners

Must check these out when I get Leopard... - John Conners

Very clever move that. - John Conners

Always cracks me up! - John Conners

Rachael thinks I'm crazy but these crack me up every time! - John Conners

Always irks me when someone does this - and I thought I was being pedantic! - John Conners

Note to self: must use FriendFeed more. - John Conners