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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
R Video
So just what just is the open source statistical, data science and visualization language R? A short video that describes the history, community and applications...
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Mathematics of Poker
Some recent exposure to card game theory led me to this WSJ article. " ... This growth over the past decade has been accompanied by a profound change in how the...
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Sharing Location Data
A Secure Location Data Locker: " ... OpenPaths is a secure data locker for personal location information .... Using our mobile apps you can track your location,...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Thirteen Sigma
Monitoring fabrication in industry and chess “Hall of Fame” source. Bill Smith joined Motorola as a quality control engineer in 1986. He coined the term Six Sigma...
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Government Controlling Your Car
In Forbes: A demonstration about how you can hack into an automobile via a government mandated port and perform some very worrisome actions. Hackers and the...
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Die Empty
Todd Henry of Accidential Creative's curiously named new book: Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day is available for pre-order. Link to read chapter 1 free...
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Big Data Theory and Analytics
Big Data Analytics at Microsoft Research. From a recent workshop there. " ... “The top-level takeaway for attendees was that big-data analytics is an area where...
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Google's IT Mission Statement
In Forbes: A view of where they are going and the kinds of empowerment being developed. Google CIO Ben Fried speaks: " ... Fried and his leadership team defined...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Song
It's "Sparky the Giant Squid." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the Centers of Excellence for Big Data Computing in the Biomedical Sciences (U54) funding opportunity announcement...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Cracked the Kryptos Sculpture Years Before the CIA Did
We interrupt this blog for some important inter-agency rivalry. The fourth part is still uncracked, though. Older links.
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Data Mining for the Midsize Business
In the large enterprise we constructed a number of datamining efforts that looked to classify solutions based on measurements we had gathered. One popular technique...
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Confronting Neuroscam
Roger Dooley author of Brainfluence, seeks to answer a number of the criticisms that have emerged recently about neuromarketing methods in the nontechnical press...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Honey bees are not going extinct
There is much argument about what science is. To some people, it appears to be mostly the belief that information should be derived reputed sources. That is, if...
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George Dyson on the Decision Problem
Historian of science George Dyson in The Edge. " ... The ultimate goal of signals intelligence and analysis is to learn not only what is being said, and what is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Innovation Performance
Bain & Company on the topic. Very well done. Taking measure is very important. " ... Innovation is one of the most popular acts in business, but one of the...
From Schneier on Security
Secret Information Is More Trusted
This is an interesting, if slightly disturbing, result: In one experiment, we had subjects read two government policy papers from 1995, one from the State Department...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Louis Zulli Jr
Lou Zulli Jr is a quiet unassuming man. What he does with his students is anything but minor though. The projects his students have done with smartphones, SharePoint...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots as Army Squad Members
Not unexpected. A play on the drone idea, but with a higher element of cooperation. Which should require a higher level of autonomy and AI. " .... The U.S. Army...
From Computational Complexity