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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 My Biased Coin
Blogging from Bertinoro
I'm here at Bertinoro (a beautiful, out-of-the-way, small town in Italy) for the 2010 version of Random GRAALS (= graphs and algorithms), a workshop that we'vestandard...
From Schneier on Security
Canada Spending $1B on Security for G8/G20 Summit in June
Amazing: The Canadian government disclosed Tuesday that the total price tag to police the elite Group of Eight meeting in Muskoka, as well as the bigger-tent Group...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cosmic 140
A visualization of the 140 most important entities on Twitter. This reminds me of Stephen Few's recent document on the overuse of circular images for data visualization...
From Computational Complexity
24: Really Bad Game Theory, technology, and science
The TV show 24 aired its last episode on May 24. The show used computers and technology ALOT, more than on most shows. Was it realistic? What it interesting? ...
From Wild WebMink
? Transparency, Privacy and Genius
Analysis: this government is open to scrutiny Noble words that, if truly implemented, take Britain down a path to open governmnet and citizen scrutiny. But only...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 31 May 2010
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter as a Gaming Platform
In Readwriteweb: Thinking about Twitter as a gaming platform.I am still convinced that there is real value in overlaying game incentives on serious work. See my...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Some Privacy with Google
I good piece on what you can do to make it more difficult to invade your privacy via Google tools. ' ... Bottom line? Big Brother knows a whole lot more than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Things You Should Know About Statistics
Good overview piece about statistics. This wont tell you how, but will position your knowledge of when stats can be used, and classic errors in their use. A good...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pure Data
Do you know Pure Data? A way to analyze multi channel music data. Can it also be used for other kinds of real time data streams? More here, the system's site...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numeracy
In the Freakonomics blog, regarding numeracy. Like literacy, it should be valued. From the comments a quote I had not heard: Oscar Wilde said:
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Power of the Negative
Intriguing piece that is worth considering:" ... Tim Berry has noticed that when two strangers sit next to each other on a plane, the icebreaker that starts a conversation...
From Wild WebMink
? Transparency and Good Will
The SEC and The Python What does open source have to do with open data? This extremely insightful move by the SEC demonstrates that the syntax of open data is not...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS Teacher Job Opportuntity
We don't usually do job postings here on the CSTA Advocate blog, but this one is rather special and we want to let you know about the opportunity. Evan Glazer....
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 500-Million-Year-Old Squid
Early squid: New Canadian research into 500 million-year-old carnivore fossils has revealed an early ancestor of modern-day squids and octopuses, solving the mystery...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Shallows
Nick Carr overviews his newly released book and provides some links to excerpts. ' ... The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. ... draws on,...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Contents of Squid Stomachs
Not that interesting, really. Preliminarily, I can tell you that within my sample, cannibalism seems to be on the rise, myctophid consumption is falling, and a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoD support of university research
Attached is a new DoD directive, reinforcing and clarifying the role of fundamental research at universities.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value of Mobile Data
In MIT Tech Review: Mobile Data: A Gold Mine for Telcos, A snapshot of our activities, cell phone data attracts both academics and industry researchers. ... '
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM