Daily Thoughts 11/11/2015

Old Man Reading a Book, Rembrandt, 1628

Daily Thoughts 11/11/2015

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook this morning.

I read some more of Superforecasting today.  I am reading about the concept of the Fox and the Hedgehog.  The Hedgehog has one big idea which it sticks to.  The fox many different ideas from a variety of sources.  Philip E. Tetlock argues that most of the time, the fox is more accurate.

Web Bits

The Library in the Life of the User

http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2015/oclcresearch-library-in-life-of-user.html

What Libraries Should Look Like in the Future

http://www.dw.com/en/what-libraries-should-look-like-in-the-future/a-18823842

The Library's Global Future

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/11/libraries_are_changing_international_development.html?wpsrc=sh_all_mob_tw_top

International Games Day is On November 21, 2015

http://www.recordedbooksblog.com/2015/11/10/international-games-day/

The Room Where The Internet Was Born

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/where-was-the-internet-born/413221/

A Book Odyssey

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/nyregion/new-york-101-how-the-library-works-a-book-odyssey.html?_r=0

Artificial Intelligence

Google Offers Up Its Entire Machine Learning Library as Open Source Software

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/google-offers-up-its-entire-machine-learning-library-as-open-source