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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 …
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US Navy keeps electromagnetic cannon in its sights
The US Navy is quietly pushing ahead with a radical new cannon that one day could transform how wars are fought, even though some Pentagon officials have voiced...
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Query Understanding: A Manifesto
Query understanding has been my obsession for years. But my recent work at Etsy and Pinterest has sharpened my thinking on the topic.Continue reading on Medium...
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Few Utah police report drone use, cite tough FAA regulations
Law enforcement agencies have touted drones as a powerful new tool for searches and investigations, but police in Utah report they've stopped using the devices...
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New service for reporting aviation safety occurrences
A new online service allows organisations and individuals to report aviation safety occurrences to aviation authorities. Developed by the JRC at the request of...
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Touchscreens for dogs, wearables for chickens—welcome to the world of animal technology
Imagine leaving your dog at home while it turns on the smart TV and chooses a programme to watch. Meanwhile you visit a zoo where you play interactive touchscreen...
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Why you should get ready to say goodbye to the humble lightbulb
Lightbulbs are disappearing. The traditional incandescent bulbs that revolutionised daily life in the 20th century have largely already gone and the energy efficient...
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MSFT Acquires LNKD: Raw Thoughts
Like everyone else in Silicon Valley, I woke up this morning to the news that Microsoft is acquiring LinkedIn, my former employer, for $26B…Continue reading on...
From The Noisy Channel
Mark, I did try migrating The Noisy Channel to Medium as a publication following these instructions…
I didn’t mind creating a publication — in fact, I saw that as a plus, since much my Noisy Channel material is a bit different from the…Continue reading on Medium...
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Math. Science. Recess. Minecraft? Twitch club brings gaming to school
Seventh-grader Brayden Foxhoven hurries to finish his chicken fingers. He has bases to capture. Gems to collect. Viewers to entertain.
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Few insurers cut rates for new electronic safety devices
After hearing good things about the latest in crash-prevention technologies, you decided to add automatic emergency braking to your new car.
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Dissertation finds more ways to use footprints found at crime scenes
A final-year student at the University of Dundee has used his dissertation to find more ways to use footprints found at crime scenes.
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Why is the black box not stored in the cloud?
Professor David Stupples, City's Professor of Electronic and Radio Systems, says the time has come for the flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit data recorder...
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Union: No room for old technology in new airport towers
Two state-of-the-art airport towers due to go into operation this fall in San Francisco and Las Vegas will first need extensive remodeling to make room for technology...
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A lesson in backups
Michael Friedman learned the hard way how important it is to back up computers.
From My Biased Coin
STOC 2017 (and STOC 2016)
I'm starting to get asked about STOC 2017 dates -- we recently executed the hotel contract, and STOC will be June 18-23 in Montreal. (It will really "start" the...
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Is photoshopping science universally wrong?
"Photoshop should be banned from every scientific research institution".
From The Noisy Channel
False positives suck, of course.
If you ignore the bigrams, then most of your results are irrelevant. Boost bigram matches a little bit? Then you still have a lot of…Continue reading on Medium...
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Let Bigrams be Bigrams
I’ve spent most of my career advocating for the use of query understanding to improve search relevance. It’s not that I don’t value search…Continue reading on Medium...
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Class Evaluations, Again
I've not been blogging much, but I have an excuse now that class evaluations have arrived. By posting about the evaluations, the students know I read them. And...
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