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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 Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What has caught my attention lately: Lots of frequently updated, high resolution satellite images + automated object detection at massive scale = crazy cool and...
From Wild WebMink
MariaDB Progress
I just posted a State Of The Sea Lion report on the MariaDB blog detailing where we have reached with implementing a community-centric approach for the MariaDB...
From Schneier on Security
Spear Phishing Attack Against the Financial Times
Interesting story with a lot of details.
From Computational Complexity
Quantum Tecniques/Gen Functions- don't be afraid of new techniques
Ronald de Wolf gave a GREAT talk at CCC on the uses of Quantum techniques to Classical Problems. He made the analogy of using the Prob Method to prove non-prob...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do Data Scientists Scale?
Andrew Brust on the nature of data scientists and the scalability of what they do, or claim to do. I agree with many of the points made. I will summarize my...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Batch Mode Productivity
Our wealth of digital tools allow a broad range of time sharing to perform tasks. This can be selectively useful, but is clearly not the way to get real things...
From Putting People First
Talking Design with Dan Hill
We are pleased to invite you to the second in the “Talking Design” lecture series with Dan Hill, CEO of Fabrica. On Thursday July 4th, designer and urbanist Dan...
From Putting People First
Advice from a former Apple director who coined the term ‘user experience’
Having worked on Apple’s User Interface Technologies and introducing the term “user experience” to company execs in the early 90s, Mitch Stein knows a thing or...
From Putting People First
Brian David Johnson on being more human
Intel’s resident futurist reflects on how the steampunk culture offers clues to building a better tomorrow. “Steampunk reveals three relationships that people want...
From Putting People First
Thirteen tenets of user experience
Robert Hoekman Jr. provides his list of 13 beliefs on the value of user experience strategy, design, and designers, “one for every year [he has] been in the web...
From Schneier on Security
The Future of Satellite Surveillance
Pretty scary -- and cool. Remember, it's not any one thing that's worrisome; it's everything together.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 June 2013
Second year in a row I am not at ISTE this week. I understand that there are twice as many computer science sessions this year than last. That’s a good thing and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Nature of the Data Scientist
Stephen Few writes about the nature of the term 'data scientist'. I personally don't like the term, I prefer the term 'analyst', which has fewer implications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Now Topics
A piece on the access of topics in the intelligent assistant Google Now. Intrguing, but it did give me what I expected when I accessed the topics page. Interesting...
From My Biased Coin
How Should We Choose Students?
Some of my previous posts have led me to think about the following -- something I'm hoping to write a longer piece about in the near future.In the past few weeks...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Seeking Program Directors Within Division of Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS)
On June 21, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a nationwide search for multiple Program Directors in the Division of Information & Intelligent Systems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discarding the Loyalty Card
Albertson's drops the loyalty card. With all the data being generated by loyalty ideas, and new ones blooming, some retailers are moving the other way. And some...
From Wild WebMink
Brazil Protests Peaceful, And Not About Bus Fares
In preparation for FISL (where I hope to be speaking next week), I have been continuing to try to understand the protests in Brazil, which are now regularly bringing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
R in Action
Some time ago I ordered the Book: R in Action: Data Analysis and Graphics with R, by Robert I Kabakoff. Have had cause to refer to it a number of times, but have...
From The Eponymous Pickle