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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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ML and flooding the zone with crap
Wisdom of the few is often better than wisdom of the crowds. If the crowd is shilled and fake, most of the data isn't useful for machine learning. To be useful,...
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Alternatives to Twitter
About five years ago, I moved most of my blogging from here to microblogging on Twitter. In part that was from the shut down of Google Reader. In part I was finally...
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Quoted in the Washington Post
I'm quoted in the Washington Post today in an article titled "It’s not your imagination: Shopping on Amazon has gotten worse." I'm talking about how Amazon used...
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Experimentation and metrics
Since the early days of the Web, I've been a fan of A/B testing for promoting innovation and ideas. But A/B testing is a tool. Like any tool, it can be used well...
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Making it more difficult to shill recommender systems
Lately I've been thinking about recommender algorithms and how they go wrong. I keep hitting examples of people arguing that we should ban the fewest accounts possible...
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Wisdom of the trusted
Flood-the-zone disinformation is a problem for crowdsourced data. Wisdom of the crowds, mass amateurization, and rejection of gatekeepers no longer works with coordinated...
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When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet.
About four years ago, Professor Daniel Lemire and I made a $100 bet on how quickly virtual reality would reach a broad, mainstream market. Specifically, my side...
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Facebook and investing in the long-term
Kevin Roose, Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel at the New York Times had a great piece ([1][2]) on the internal debate inside Facebook on removing disinformation:[1]...
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Papers and posting
If you haven't seen it, Adrian Colyer's excellent blog has great reviews and summaries of recent papers. Back when this blog started in 2004, there weren't many...
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Tech and Tech Idealism
It's been almost 2 years since my last post! I don't know if anyone is still reading this. If you are, thank you! Why haven't I posted more? Partly it is the...
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Two decades of Amazon.com recommendations
IEEE Internet Computing just celebrated its 20th anniversary. On its 20th anniversary, the editorial board created its first ever “The Test of Time” award. I'm...
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Quick links
Some of the tech news I found interesting lately, and you might too: Jeff Bezos: "Many decisions are reversible, two-way doors. Those decisions can use a light...
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All Crunchzilla tutorials now open source
All the code is now available for all the Crunchzilla coding tutorials. Code Monster, Code Maven, and Game Maven from Crunchzilla have been used by hundreds ofopen...
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Quick links
A carefully picked list of some of the tech news I enjoyed recently: So, you know that prototype we showed you? Turns out AI in real world conditions is hard...
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Book review: Radical Candor
This just came out, the book Radical Candor by Kim Scott. It's a good read on managing and focused on people. I'd recommend it if you are a manager or help others...
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More quick links
Some of the tech news I found interesting lately, and you might too: "In addition to making our systems more intelligent, we have to make them more intelligible...
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Quick links
Some of the tech news that caught my attention lately: Humans working for the AI: How we get ground truth for machine learning ([1]) Deep learning helping[1]...
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Book review: Chaos Monkeys
Cynical, mercenary, and dark, this book aptly serves as an opposing view for any idealism you may have been feeling about Silicon Valley startups or their bigger...
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Quick links
Some of the tech news I found interesting lately, and you might too. Heavy on the comics this time to lighten the mood: Jeff Bezos: "Good leaders ... seek to disconfirm...
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