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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
An ethnography of the Brixton Pound
Mario Campana (@mariocampana), a PhD student at City University London’s Cass Business School, researches the growing trend of local currencies – of which there...
From Putting People First
Interview with man at the heart of Facebook ethnography kerfuffle
Tricia Wang interviewed Daniel Miller, the anthropologist at the heart of the Facebook ethnography kerfuffle, and published the transcript on EthnographyMatters...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Seeing Atoms
How can we possibly see atoms? John Sidles is a medical researcher and a quantum systems engineer. His major focus is on quantum spin microscopy for regenerative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning in Neural Nets
General outline and technical detailed article in the WP about deep learning in neural nets. And further about deep learning in general: " ... Deep learningDeep...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netflix Using Distributed Neural Nets
In the enterprise we actively used artificial neural nets to perform various scoring functions for analytical learning methods. They were particularly useful for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ultra Simple User Interfaces
The best user interface should predictively anticipate our needs. Focus us on the right data and tools to do our job best. Feed us the proper sensor readings...
From Schneier on Security
GOPHERSET: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: GOPHERSET (TS//SI//REL) GOPHERSET is a software implant for GSM (Global System...
From Putting People First
Exploring new markets for Firefox OS: mobile and internet behaviours in Central Europe
Experientia has lately been doing a lot of work on mobile OSes, from feature evaluations of some of the more interesting new arrivals, to comparisons of some of...
From Putting People First
Qualitative research in industry – videos from the Qualitative 360 Asia Pacific conference
Qualitative 360 Asia Pacific 2013 took place in Singapore in November 2013, and some videos are now available: Winning with shoppers via qualitative research [23...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ford Autonomous Vehicle
A look at an autonomous vehicle prototype by Ford. When will the vision of fully autonomous vehicles become common? Still wonder the liability issues.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Companies vs Amazon or With Them?
In Retailwire:" ... Are CPG companies consciously deciding to align with the logistic powerhouse of the future instead of the distribution giants (brick-and-mortar...
From Putting People First
A case study on inclusive design: ethnography and energy use
Energy usage and conservation can be a seemingly mundane part of an individual’s daily life on one hand, but a politically, ecologically, and economically critical...
From Schneier on Security
Finding People's Location Based on Their Activities in Cyberspace
Glenn Greenwald is back reporting about the NSA, now with Pierre Omidyar's news organization FirstLook and its introductory publication, The Intercept. Writingfirst...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Square at Whole Foods
Did an early experiment with the Square system for client payment, it has continued to progress in POS system, here it continues its push into retailer payment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Applied Concept Mapping
Some time ago I mentioned the book Applied Concept Mapping, by Brian Moon, et al and also posts about concept mapping in general. Also about how it can be implemented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Team Robotics: Loving the Swarm
New research on a topic we had examined. Using cheap, simple and disposable robots to perform sensor activity, like performing inventory in a warehouse. ...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Hitting a Block and Feeling Stuck
I recently received an email asking whether I've ever faced programmer's block. The emailer was referring to those times you sit and stare at a problem but never...
From Computational Complexity
IEEE and the Conference on Computational Complexity
Dieter van Melkebeek, current conference chair of the IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity has set up a forum to discuss the future affiliation of the conference...
From Schneier on Security
DROPOUTJEEP: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: DROPOUTJEEP (TS//SI//REL) DROPOUTJEEP is a STRAITBIZARRE based software implant...
From The Eponymous Pickle