Request for Feedback: WinnipegElection.ca
Hi folks,
On October 27 of this year the citizens of Winnipeg go to the polls to elect their Mayor, their City Councillors and their School Trustees.
Making an informed vote requires that you know the candidates, their platforms and the issues they discuss.
This is why we’ve created WinnipegElection.ca, a citizen driven website for the upcoming Winnipeg general election.
Our public launch is later this month, but we’d love you to take a sneak peak.
We’ll use your feedback to determine how to proceed with the site.
Currently you’ll find:
Video from SuperMe a multi-player resilience and happiness game from Channel 4’s education department.
It’s interesting to see these types of “life-hacking” games trend upwards. Related: EpicWin, RibbonHero, Future of Games, Jane McGonigal.
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Super Mario “Speed Run” Augmented Reality.
Respect. [via waxy, again]
Members chime in on what they’ve spent large portions of their life doing wrong.
Glad this didn’t get nixed as ChatFilter. [via]
“If we were trying to build a true, general AI, we would first need to create a way for it to get around and interact with the larger world. And we would need a system for rapid knowledge acquisition, so that we wouldn’t have to manually explain every detail of how the world works.”
Near future AI: Autonomous Automobiles and Learning by Reading.