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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 Schneier on Security
Racism as a Vestigal Remnant of a Security Mechanism
"Roots of Racism," by Elizabeth Culotta in Science: Our attitudes toward outgroups are part of a threat-detection system that allows us to rapidly determine friend...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Creating incentives for better science
Popper argued that science should be falsifiable. To determine truth, we simply try to disprove an hypothesis until we are exhausted. It is a nice theory, but actual...
From My Biased Coin
Non-travel
For the past few years, I've been the chair for one of the international review panels for Country X's research funding bodies. (It's probably all a matter of...
From Schneier on Security
Security Incentives and Advertising Fraud
Details are in the article, but here's the general idea: Let's follow the flow of the users: Scammer buys user traffic from PornoXo.com and sends it to HQTubeVideos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Dynamics
Recently visited: Material Demand Aggregation: Your Solution for Better Supply Chain PerformanceLeverage aggregate demand WITHOUT consigning material, installing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Occasion-Based Marketing at Coke
In CPGMatters: A classic approach to quantifying in-store behavior. Coke finds some insight along the way:Occasion-Based Marketing Triggers Coca-Cola's Solutions ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Grocery Shopping
Are you ready? Catalina's acquisition of Modiv media. What will the outcome of this be? Are consumers ready to broadly utilize in-store scanning? Based on "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Business Intelligence Tool
I have worked for a number of small and medium size business intelligence applications. When a business has to address these kinds of problems without a consultant...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast bitmap decoding
An old programming trick is to represent sets of integers as bitmaps. For example, the sequence of integers 1, 4, 6 becomes the number 0b1010010 in binary (or 82...
From My Biased Coin
Summer School on Massive Data Mining in Copenhagen
Rasmus Pagh asked me to advertise the following summer school he is organizing. Looks like a good deal to me:SUMMER SCHOOL ON MASSIVE DATA MININGAugust 8-10, 2012...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Mini-Course 2012: The Games
I have posted the 13 games I received from my mini-course students onto my website. They are in exe format that should work on Windows machines without Game Maker...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Commerce for the Mid Size Business
Good futures piece on this topic.To help companies understand the Smarter Commerce Institute, the SMB Group and CRM Essentials are working on a series of posts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curse of Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: Enumerating the curses of innovation. Regarding Intellectual property, and of course the patent system.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Smarts in Search
A report on how Google is adding new semantic smarts into its search." ... Reportedly spotted by several users, the search pages are now displaying semantic data...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CS URGE: A Resource for Undergraduates
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has developed a new website for undergraduates seeking summer research opportunities as well as advice and tips on applying...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 May 2012
I spent Friday visiting with high school Computer Science teachers at the St Joseph's College (Long Island NY) programming competition. This is always a good time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Synthetic Biology Accellerator
I have heard the term 'synthetic biology' used many times. Most recently in the funding proposal for a startup. It is usually is misused in odd ways. These...
From The Eponymous Pickle