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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
Institute for Large Scale Innovation
The Institute for Large Scale Innovation, and its founder John Kao was recently brought to mind. After our introduction to their work quite a while ago. ...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Are The Girls in Your Class Being Bullied?
Perhaps many of you have read the recent Letter to my daughter's high school programming teacher, a blog post from an impassioned journalist whose daughter was...
From Computational Complexity
Long Tails and Fat Heads
Sometimes words or phrases are used in MATH and then spread to the REAL WORLD. I have blogged about how the terms Prisoner's Dilemma has become a real-world-phrase...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Myths and Misconceptions
I am in the midst of preparing an executive presentation about the use of analytics for companies in our region. Our group consists of experienced practitioners...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Service Manual AR from Metaio and VW
What is growing as an application for Augmented Reality, the delivery of automobile service manuals for a concept car. Here for technicians. GigaOM discusses...
From My Biased Coin
Notes from the Andreessen Horowitz Academic Round Table
I've spent the last couple of days attending the Andreessen Horowitz Academic Round Table.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simpson's Paradox
I recall this coming up on some testing we did, the danger of a lurking explanatory variables. Is very easy to have conformation bias here. A visual of description...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 30 September 2013
If you are a regular (or irregular) reader of my blog here I hope you will do me the honor of taking a few minutes to respond to a short survey I created last week...
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