industryterm:internet meme

A Quick Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and #tensorflow
▻https://hackernoon.com/a-quick-introduction-to-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-deep-le

What used to be just a pipe dream in the realms of science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI) is now mainstream technology in our everyday lives with applications in image and voice recognition, language translations, chatbots, and predictive data analysis.In this article, we’ll introduce AI along with its related terms machine learning and deep learning. By the end of the article you should understand these terms, how things generally work and be more familiar with terms like Inception and YOLO (and no, we’re not talking about the Leonardo DiCaprio movie or some internet meme).Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence by computers. Machine learning is a branch of AI where algorithms are used to learn from data to make future decisions or predictions. Deep (...)

#open-source #artificial-intelligence #deep-learning #machine-learning

Oculus Founder Plots a Comeback With a Virtual Border Wall
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/business/oculus-palmer-luckey-new-start-up.html

Palmer Freeman Luckey was the kind of wunderkind Silicon Valley venerates. When he was just 21, he made an overnight fortune selling his start-up, a company called Oculus VR that made virtual-reality gear, to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014. But the success story took a sideways turn this year when Mr. Luckey was pressured to leave Facebook months after news spread that he had secretly donated to an organization dedicated to spreading anti-Hillary Clinton internet memes. While Mr. Luckey (...)

#Oculus #frontières #surveillance

Mike Godwin’s Law: from counter-memes to countering the FBI | Culture | theguardian.com

▻http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/oct/29/mike-godwin-nazi-analogies-meme-update#start-of-comments

Back in 1990 – before users referred to the internet as the World Wide Web and a negligible number of mavericks held discussions on Usenet newsgroups, the Well, and Bulletin board systems (BBS) – Mike Godwin, then an Austin law student, created one of the first internet memes.

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It was called “Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies”, and the assertion went like this:

“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

After he seeded Godwin’s Law within various BBS threads, it caught on with ease, even morphing into different versions of the same basic idea, much like the ubiquitous “condescending Willy Wonka”, or, aptly, “Hitler’s reactions to things”. Now, anyone who wields “Godwin’s Law” in any forum knows they’re talking about pretty much the same thing, regardless of context.

#point_godwin

Finding Goatse: The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History
►http://gawker.com/5899787

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Sometime in the late 20th century a naked man bent over, spread his ass and took a picture. Eventually that picture, known as Goatse, became one of the most venerable memes in internet history. Who is this man, and how did his ass take over the internet?

#goatse #meme

William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong | Underwire | Wired.com
▻http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/interview-with-william-gibson/all

In this Wired interview, which will be published over the next three days, Gibson discusses a dizzying range of subjects, including antique watches, comic books, punk rock, fortune tellers, internet memes and the long-running plans for a Neuromancer movie.

Part II : William Gibson on Twitter, Antique Watches and Internet Obsessions ▻http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/william-gibson-part-2-twitter/all

I think that the #TED phenomenon is the kind of hypertrophied expanse of the sort of cultural impulses that we’ve talked about in part today. It’s really the same thing…. “Yay! He’s going to tell us….” I’m usually not really interested in that sort of thing. I’m also not very often invited; it’s probably all for the best.

Part III : William Gibson on Punk Rock, Internet #Memes, and ‘Gangnam Style’ ▻http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/william-gibson-part-3-punk-memes/all

“That’s something from a subculture we would have no way of knowing anything about, and suddenly it’s on YouTube and it’s got millions and millions of hits, and people all over the world are saying, ‘Wow, will you check this out?’” Gibson said.

It’s unlikely, Gibson noted, that the video will be more than a blip in popular culture — soon to be supplanted by the next big meme. But, as he added with a laugh, “I want to see his next video. I will be totally on it. I’m sure I will be, because people will tell me about it on Twitter.”

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’LED smiles’ — how a nonexistent Japanese schoolgirl craze became a #meme | The Japan Times Online
►http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fd20110130a1.html

A nonexistent Japanese style trend turned into Internet meme this past week, thanks to a New York Times blog, the online version of The Guardian and other news websites. If the report — which was passed verbatim from site to site, tweet to tweet — was to be believed, the latest craze among Japanese schoolgirls was a colorful dental accessory: flashing LED lights, held in the mouth. The Japanese artists who created the device, however, say it’s a stretch.