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December 16, 2012

La technologie c’est cool, mais… - le hollandais volant

Conseil : ne vous fiez pas au numérique. Et c’est bien en tant que fan du numérique que je vous dis qu’il est très dangereux de s’y fier à 100%.

Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon | ExtremeTech

When we think about writing books, especially the technical kind, we think about a person or small group of people hunched over their keyboards typing away. There’s a good reason for that mental image: that’s how the majority of books are written. That’s not the way it has to be, though. Philip M. Parker, a marketing professor at INSEAD, has a patented system for algorithmically compiling data into book form. Thanks to Parker’s system, Amazon now has over 800,000 books for sale from his company. Other organizations pay for this service to compile data for their reports, so the system clearly has flexibility.