Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously

- It is about fishing net.

Jeff Hancock: 3 types of (digital) lies

From TEDxWinnipeg


- Three kinds of deception:

(from Jeff Hancock Speech)

- Butlers: Ambiguity buffer, such as "sorry, my battery is dead" (white lie)
- Sock Puppets: such as: author write own book review (mean to deceive, one person)
- Chinese Water Army: such as: many fake blog reviews (mean to deceive, brought up to scale)

- e-mail is the less lies, phone is the most lies, f2f in the middle.
- resume: paper vs. linkedin (more honest)
- facebook profile: (high correlation btw) four knew and four stranger judge on personality

- online dating: guys lie about height, lie frequently but by little bit

- How to explain why online deception is small?
- We are very bad at detecting lies (54% accuracy)

- We lie for a reason.

- Talking when there was no record.

- Now, all the fake review are staying.

- Fake review w/ algorithm; think about the situation, thus more on "I", and imaginable setting vs. real small details

- Lying online can be very dangerous, do I want to this to be part of my record?

1,000,000,000,000 Frames/Second Photography - Ramesh Raskar

- Trillion Frames per second; Femto Photography, it can capture light.
- The light bounce inside tomato.

- Expose many light on the object, scatter in all direction, GB of information integrate together. Tiny photons that come back.

Next area of imaging, not about mega pixel, but about time.

Gary Greenberg: The beautiful nano details of our world

- Beautiful Science. What we can see in very very small scale.
- The grain of sand are beautiful
- Three dimension microscope: easy to loose focus on small scale, need to take many different picture. And put them together using a program.

- "To see a world, in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in your hand, and eternity in one hour." William Blake

(Photo from Gary Greenberg TED speech)

Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music

- Classical Music
- The impulse is reduced; 6-> 11 years one-buttock playing
- Maybe it's not the audience, is the player

- One-buttock play, is the vision

- Why I am clapping, 7th grade kids said: "Because we were listening"

- How would you be, talk for "moving everybody love classical music" vs.  "moving 3% -> 4% to love classical music"

- My job is silence, and to awaken possibility with other people.

- If the eyes are not shinning, you get to ask: "Who am I being, that my players' eyes are not shining?"

- Definition for success: how many shining eyes around me?

- "I will never say anything, that couldn't stand at the last thing that I have ever said."


Takeaway:

That is how a video about passion should be, the speaker should be so full of passion, that there are many spillover on the audience. A evangelist that can't wait to convert everyone into.

I can't remembered a more passionate TED talk.

Malcolm Gladwell：The strange tale of the Norden bombsight

- It is machine that spent US$ 1.5 billion in WW II to developed (as compared to 3 billion in Manhattan project)
- A device to drop bomb from the air with precision (in practice).
- Only works Cloudless sky, low speed, low attitude.
- 750 acre chemical plant, 85,000 bombs only 10% lands, with 16% didn't go off.
- Many gadgets that claims to be Norden bombs, but it actually means very little: it solves the wrong problem.
- Droid killing in war was 95% effective, but suicide bombing increase 1000%.

Takeaway: 
Be flexible, change your way of attacking a problem. Be careful of metrics and KPI.

Ryan Merkley: Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped

Using HTML, JS, and CSS. That is a project that I can/should try.
http://mozillapopcorn.org/