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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Putting People First
Observing the technologists
Nick Seaver, a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at UC Irvine, makes the case for the importance of “studying up“: doing ethnographies not only of disempowered...
From Computational Complexity
Why do we think P NE NP? (inspired by Scott's post)
Recently Scott Posted an excellent essay on reasons to think that P NE NP. This inspired me to post on the same topic. Inspired is probably the right word. Some...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
How To Carry Fame
Long proofs are not always the most important results Michael Rabin is visiting Georgia Tech today and tomorrow to give a pair of distinguished lectures. Both of...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
How To Carry Fame
Long proofs are not always the most important results Michael Rabin is visiting Georgia Tech today and tomorrow to give a pair of distinguished lectures. Both of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Elegance as a luxury
As a young student, I was undisciplined. Though I did well in mathematics, I often couldn’t be bothered to write down clean computations. I would do the work mostly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 March 2014
I spent some time last week trying to keep up with what was happening in Austin Texas at SxSWedu and Atlanta Georgia with SIGCSE by watching Twitter. The good news...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Have We Reached a Consensus on a National CS Curriculum?
Oh boy are things up in the air in the HS CS curriculum these days. While we have some great advice from the CSTA () the implementation of those suggestions are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Markets from iBeacons
From Business Insider: A new market, and is what Apple up to really different? " ... Beacons are a low-cost piece of hardware — small enough to attach to a wall...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Interaction in Organizational Systems
This paper in Data Science Central relates to a number of previous projects, and proposals for enterprise work ongoing. An underlying goal, but still underachieved...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moving from Simulation to the Holodeck
Looking at beginnings of the Holodeck. How does this related to virtual reality in general? Again I think this should always be connected to virtual reality.Simulation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Types of Math Culture from Computers
In the ACM: More on a new type of math. With some interesting visuals. In the early days of common computing we saw indications that computing would support"...
From Putting People First
Swedish inspirations on design for public policy
The Forum for Social Innovation Sweden is a meeting place for academia, industry, government, civic society and non-profit organisations in Sweden striving to develop...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Codes Meet Numbers
Results and problems about primes that make us think of coding theory Cropped from source. Zhi-Wei Sun is a professor in Mathematics at Nanjing University in China...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Codes Meet Numbers
Results and problems about primes that make us think of coding theory Cropped from source. Zhi-Wei Sun is a professor in Mathematics at Nanjing University in China...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Wins at Sochi
In Knowledge@Wharton. A detailed look at Procter's brand development with the Sochi Olympics. " ... Along with athletes, brand marketers also competed for attention...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Running a Simple Classifier
Been following Machine Learning Mastery, by Jason Brownlee. He posted an item about a free classifier in Weka that I had not seen before. He includes a step...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Millennial Work Ethics
In CLO Mag: An interview with Ian Wolfe. president of Success Performance Solutions. " ... It’s no secret that today’s workforce isn’t into working 9 to 5, coming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Targeting with Mobile: Coupons are Moving
In Forbes: Good overall view of how promotion couponing is moving to mobile:" ... Those coupons that used to be available from red dispensers on grocery storeThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curious Calculations by Wolfram Alpha
Been a while since I looked at Wolfram Alpha. Here is an example page of questions that WA can solve when asked. Just click on each question on the link. AsWolfram...
From The Eponymous Pickle