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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A tightly curated list of what has caught my attention lately: New Yorker on AI: "A lot of what people are calling 'artificial intelligence' is really data analytics...
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A tightly curated list of what I enjoyed in the news recently: Bezos: "Every single important thing we’ve done has taken a lot of risk, risk-taking, perseverance...
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Code Monster from Crunchzilla is now open source
Code Monster from Crunchzilla is now open source, free to use and modify. Code Monster is a tutorial that has been used by hundreds of thousands of children around...
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What has caught my attention lately: "We simply don't know how to securely engineer anything but the simplest of systems" ([1]) Impressive at their scale: "Facebook...
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Virtual reality hitting the mainstream: The next $100 bet
Virtual reality is hot again, with dedicated hardware headsets launching from multiple manufacturers intended for general use. The world is substantially different...
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Tablets replacing PCs: Resolving the $100 bet
In 2012, Professor Daniel Lemire and I bet $100 over the question of whether tablets would replace PCs. Specifically, the bet was, "In some quarter of 2015, the...
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What caught my attention recently: "Big ideas emerge from spills, crashes, failed experiments and blind stabs .... As people dredge the unknown, they are engaging...
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