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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Concept Maps Delivered on an iPad
Brian Moon of Perigean Technologies helped us elicit knowledge from experts in the enterprise and convert it to the form of concept maps. He continues to work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
15% Unconnected
A remarkable 15% of Americans are choosing to opt out of the Internet. In a Computerworld article. " ... according to a study done by the Pew Internet & American...
From Writing
The 10x developer is NOT a myth
Last night, I tweeted the following:I'm confused by the claim that "10x" or "rockstar developers" are a myth. Are star athletes, artists, writers, and, uh, rock...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Two Bits About FOCS 2013
How to save money and attend the upcoming FOCS John Cherniavsky is a theorist who published a paper in FOCS 1973, forty years ago. He has done much great work at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding the Economics of Media
Google's chief economist speaks on the media. I can barely remember when we had chief economists in the enterprise. " ... Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Gearing Up for Grace Hopper Next Week
For me, today is all about getting ready for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing next week. As usual, I'm involved with the conference in many different...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Problems with Big Data Correlations
Short piece that makes good points. Most telling: People are discontinuous. Big Data suggests that the more data we have results in better correlations and thus...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Acquires Nets Research Company
Google acquires Neural net focused company DNNresearch. We worked with artificial neural nets to replace some statistical techniques for shopping behavior analysis...
From Putting People First
The problem with big data correlations
“The people using big data don’t presume to peer deeply into people’s souls,” argues David Brooks in the New York Times (in a March 2013 column). “They don’t try...
From Putting People First
The Qualified Self
Looking at yet another tweet and another post about the Quantified Self, I started reflecting this morning on the Silicon Valley-driven fascination with the quantification...
From Putting People First
The science behind using online communities to change behavior
Sean Young, a behavioral psychologist, a family medicine professor and director of innovation at the center for behavioral and addiction medicine at UCLA, addresses...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Share Your Ideas and Experiences at the CSTA Conference
The call for proposals for the 14th Annual CSTA Conference is now live. The conference will be held on July 14-15, 2014 at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GePhi Open Graphics Blog
Started to follow the GePhi open graphics blog. Its all about networks, big and small. Free and open research software. Examining now. " ... Networks are...
From Computational Complexity
Complexity and FOCS
The Conference on Computational Complexity Call for Papers is out, deadline November 27. The deadline for early registration and hotel for the FOCS conferenceavailable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asking Questions to Tell a Story
Speculative. Story-asking? ... A post by Althouse brought this to mind. Where she relates the game played in Tom Stoppard's play (and movie) Rosencrantz and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Story Driven Data Analysis
In the HBR blog (Registration required). A well told story is the essence of analytics." ... Great analysts tell great stories based on the results of their analyses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Realities of Mind Control
In Mind Hacks: A discussion of experiments in mind control. All communications, and most specifically, advertising, are methods of influence. So we are rightly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pay Attention Eye Tracking
An interesting concept .... can eye tracking software force you to pay attention during company training? Intrusive, but for some specialized applications. perhaps...
From Schneier on Security
Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Backbone
We know from the Snowden documents (and other sources) that the NSA taps Internet backbone through secret-agreements with major U.S. telcos., but the U.S. government...
From Putting People First