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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 ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Virtual ACM Celebrations of Women in Computing
It has been a whole year since the pandemic suddenly changed our lives. Uncertainty has been the major obstacle hindering us from making plans. We never lost our...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On What Matters: Cornerstones
Below the intro, which links to the 'cornerstones', good thoughts. Certainly we discovered these in the enterprise, for new and older tech. Intelligent automation...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Advancing and Counting
Announcing tomorrow’s Women in Data Science workshop, plus a US State Department event for International Women’s Day (also March 8) Santa Fe Inst. external faculty...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Advancing and Counting
Announcing tomorrow’s Women in Data Science workshop (global start tonight 8pm ET), plus a US State Department event for International Women’s Day (also March 8)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sidewalk Robots Get Rights
Coming changes in urban and suburban views.Sidewalk robots get legal rights as "pedestrians" By Jennifer A. Kingson in AxiosAs small robots proliferate on sidewalks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Non-Fungible, Blockchained, Unique and Expensive
Don't fully understand this, but if someone is willing to pay for something provably unique? The picture is shown at the link.How a 10-Second Video Clip Sold for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Effect in Erasing
Pondering the implications of this.The Demon Is in the Detail—Trinity Team Discovers Uniquely Quantum Effect in Erasing InformationTrinity College Dublin (Ireland)...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 6th 2021)
Increasing schooling does not improve social outcomes at a population level. Venitian glass was made near Venice as early as 450 BC. It spread worldwide through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Material AI Invention and Discovery
New directions in new material discovery. As it mentions, AI-driven molecular driven platform that is said to invent new molecular structureIBM launches AI platform...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stop Conversations Sooner?
Perhaps a guide for chatbots? Or is the guide for them different? Though like all such guides, and rules of thumb, depends highly on context.When Should You End...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google to Stop Tracking Users for Targeted Ads
Has long been done with cookies. More recently has been more dangerously proposed via 'CName Collusion' See: https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/808...
From Schneier on Security
On Not Fixing Old Vulnerabilities
How is this even possible? …26% of companies Positive Technologies tested were vulnerable to WannaCry, which was a threat years ago, and some even vulnerable to...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cartoon
Squid ink. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Digitally Signed PDF Files
Interesting paper: “Shadow Attacks: Hiding and Replacing Content in Signed PDFs“: Abstract: Digitally signed PDFs are used in contracts and invoices to guarantee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Imaginary Numbers Essential for a Quantum Reality
Good piece, math-technical, worth a skim regardless. Intro below. Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Quantum RealityA new thought experiment indicates...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook's Seer Recognizes Images
Thinking the implications of this in business practice.Facebook’s new AI model SEER can teach itself to recognize images By Mike Wheatley in SiliconAngleResearchers...
From Schneier on Security
No, RSA Is Not Broken
I have been seeing this paper by cryptographer Peter Schnorr making the rounds: “Fast Factoring Integers by SVP Algorithms.” It describes a new factoring method...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Changing Human Choice and Chance?
Perhaps it will, but its still in very small ways. We are not even close to major changes. .... AI is killing choice and chance—changing what it means to be ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Syncing time on Smartphones for Measurements
Can be useful for synchronization of measurement.Twist-n-Sync: Skoltech Scientists Use Smartphone Gyroscopes to Sync Time Across DevicesSkolkovo Institute of Science...
From Putting People First