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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 Wild WebMink
Open, Free and Commercial
"Open" is never used honestly to mean "non-commercial". "Open" means no permission required; only salesmen pretend otherwise.— Simon Phipps (@webmink) November...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Wonderful Riff On Rank
The approximate rank of matrices—a great idea Santosh Vempala is one of the world experts on high-dimensional geometry, and has made many beautiful contributions...
From Schneier on Security
Security Theater in American Diplomatic Missions
I noticed this in an article about how increased security and a general risk aversion is harming US diplomatic missions: "Barbara Bodine, who was the U.S. ambassador...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 19 November 2012
I made some more changes to the blog this last week. I hope they are not too disruptive but I want to make the site more useable and interesting. The big changes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Great Visualizations
Tableau provides a paper on data visualization. Requires Registration. " ... This paper traces the history of visual representation, from early cave drawingsthe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Colleges and the Teachers Apple
A link just sent to me. An interesting blog that addresses changes in the education industry. " ... A decade ago, electronics and cell phones in the classroom...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ask Your Director of Analytics
In Forbes: What should the questions you ask your director of analytics? If you have such a person. Not the usual things, more about the business aspects. That...
From Putting People First
UK study: tech in schools requires a rethink of how learning is organised
In the last five years UK schools have spent more than £1 billion on digital technology. From interactive whiteboards to tablets, there is more digital technology...
From Putting People First
Scotland study: Tablet devices in schools beneficial to children
School children who use a tablet computer benefit the most when allowed to take it home, rather than just using it in school, reveals research from the University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Google Does Analytics
Gib Bassett sends along this piece from Bernard Marr. About Google's use of data and analytics to do decision making. They sound very industrial engineering "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moores Law Becoming Irrelevant
Has the ever increasing drumbeat to computing and data manipulation become irrelevant? The folks behind ARM say that as processors proliferate, efficiency will...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Progress On Progressive Algorithms
Another attempt to capture the notion of progressive and a wrong proof of mine Gary Miller is one of the great theorists. Starting with his award winning PhD thesis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mixed View of Self Checkout
A good overview of the phenomenon. My own decade long observation has seen the idea grow quickly. Some companies are embracing them, others are backing off...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Motivating People With Money
Have read Dan Pink's recent book Drive, which I enjoyed very much. Now a new method where he offers access as a reward to help promote the book. Another step...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Vampire Squid
Vampire squid eats marine wastes (paper and video). 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
Developments in Large Scale Online Education
The New York Times recently reported on how colleges may soon begin to allow massive open online courses (MOOCs) to be eligible for transfer credits, and used...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Computer Science Means to Students
I've been thinking a lot about computer science education recently. Specifically, as it applies to my students. As the K-8 CSTA board representative and a member...
From Putting People First
The Informal Economy Symposium (videos)
The first Informal Economy Symposium took place on October 12 in Barcelona. The goal was to abandon the conventional idea that the informal economy is the other...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog