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Equality, diversity and inclusion in the R Project: collaborative community coding & curating with Dr Heather Turner
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Equality, diversity and inclusion in the R Project: collaborative community coding & curating with Dr Heather Turner

Find out about Dr Heather Turner's EPSRC project to increase diversity and representation in software (R programming language) and about the role of Research Software...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

One Day, Three Stories

NYT Science puzzlers, Claudine Gay’s resignation, and in memoriam Frank Ryan Clockwise: src1, src2, src3 Roxanne and George Miller, Claudine Gay, and Frank Ryan...

From Computational Complexity

The Betty White Award for 2023: Tommy Smothers

Betty White died on December 31, 2021. When I mention that, even now, some people are surprised that they didn't hear about it. Why? Because she died AFTER allarticles...

TikTok Editorial Analysis
From Schneier on Security

TikTok Editorial Analysis

TikTok seems to be skewing things in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. (This is a serious analysis, and the methodology looks sound.) Conclusion: Substantial...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Things We Did Not Know How to Compute

Artificial Intelligence and P=NP Enio Moraes is the Product and Engineering Director of Semantix in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Semantix provides AI platforms for businesses...

Science and Technology links (December 30th 2023)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (December 30th 2023)

Parenting does not appear to be able to determine the personality traits of a child. When the last ice age ended, 12,000 years ago, the Sahara was green and full...

@HPCpodcast: A Parting Look at 2023 — What a Year for HPC-AI!
From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: A Parting Look at 2023 — What a Year for HPC-AI!

As we embark on 2024, Shahin and Doug offer this 2023 Year in Review special edition looking back at one of the most eventful years in the recent history of HPC...

AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos
From Schneier on Security

AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos

Wow: To test PIGEON’s performance, I gave it five personal photos from a trip I took across America years ago, none of which have been published online. Some photos...

Friday Squid Blogging: Sqids
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Sqids

They’re short unique strings: Sqids (pronounced “squids”) is an open-source library that lets you generate YouTube-looking IDs from numbers. These IDs are short...

AI and Lossy Bottlenecks
From Schneier on Security

AI and Lossy Bottlenecks

Artificial intelligence is poised to upend much of society, removing human limitations inherent in many systems. One such limitation is information and logistical...

Book excerpt: First pages of the book
From Geeking with Greg

Book excerpt: First pages of the book

(This is an excerpt from my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It". The first sentence and first ...

New iPhone Security Features to Protect Stolen Devices
From Schneier on Security

New iPhone Security Features to Protect Stolen Devices

Apple is rolling out a new “Stolen Device Protection” feature that seems well thought out: When Stolen Device Protection is turned on, Face ID or Touch ID authentication...

Tonight, 8pm on BBC Four – the first of three Christmas Lectures for young people on Artificial Intelligence
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Tonight, 8pm on BBC Four – the first of three Christmas Lectures for young people on Artificial Intelligence

If you're near a television or computer at 8pm you can watch the first of this year's Christmas Lectures, all about artificial intelligence.

Google Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps
From Schneier on Security

Google Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps

Google Maps now stores location data locally on your device, meaning that Google no longer has that data to turn over to the police.

CS4FN Advent Calendar – Day 25 bonus Christmas crackers: have you ever seen this cracker joke?
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

CS4FN Advent Calendar – Day 25 bonus Christmas crackers: have you ever seen this cracker joke?

If you’re pulling a Christmas cracker today look out for this now famous but fairly puzzling ‘joke’ – Q: What kind of cough medicine does Dracula take?A: Con medicine...

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 23: Father Christmas – checking his list, spotting the errors
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

CS4FN Advent 2023 – Day 23: Father Christmas – checking his list, spotting the errors

Our CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar has now been running for 23 days! That’s one post every single day, matching a computing-themed blog post to the image...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Parts into Fertilizer
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Parts into Fertilizer

It’s squid parts from college dissections, so it’s not a volume operation. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in thehere...

Data Exfiltration Using Indirect Prompt Injection
From Schneier on Security

Data Exfiltration Using Indirect Prompt Injection

Interesting attack on a LLM: In Writer, users can enter a ChatGPT-like session to edit or create their documents. In this chat session, the LLM can retrieve information...

CS4FN Advent 2023: wreaths and rope memory – weave your own space age computer
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

CS4FN Advent 2023: wreaths and rope memory – weave your own space age computer

Each day throughout December (until Christmas Day) we’ll be publishing a computing-themed blog post suggested by the picture on the front of our Advent Calendar...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Have I Been Cheating at Wordle?

What natural streaks say about recent facile chess cheating accusations Sundials source Frank King programmed an ancestor of Wordle at Cambridge University in the...
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