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The Dark History of Algorithms
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

The Dark History of Algorithms

Zin Derfoufi, a Computer Science student at Queen Mary, delves into some of the dark secrets of algorithms past. Algorithms are used throughout modern life forContinue...

Using an Assistant  Leads to more Buggy Code
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using an Assistant Leads to more Buggy Code

Perhaps unexpected, but does depend on deeper understanding of the use context involved. AI Help Leads to Buggier CodeBy Ryan Daws | December 21, 2022 | TechForge...

Duolingo and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Duolingo and AI

How Duolingo’s AI Learns What You Need to Learn500+IEEE Spectrum by Burr Settles / February 05, 2023It’s lunchtime when your phone pings you with a green owl who...

CS Students–Learn Your IDE
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CS Students–Learn Your IDE

Eugene Wallingford had a great post on WHAT WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SUCCEED AS A CS STUDENT? It’s got a lot of good advice and I recommend it to students in high school...

From Computational Complexity

When is a paper `Easily Available' ?

I was looking at the paper                                 PSPACE-Completeness of reversible deterministic systemsby Erik Demaine, Robert Hearn,  Dylan Hendrickson...

Science and Technology links (February 12 2023)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (February 12 2023)

Kenny finds that the returns due to education are declining. Rich countries are spending more on education, with comparatively weaker test results. It costs more...

Bard Underwhelms in Debut
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bard Underwhelms in Debut

Still lots of Work to do for Human level performance,  An Update for chatbots, expensive reaction.Google's Bard AI bot mistake wipes $100bn off shares   in the ...

Quantum Communications, Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Communications, Computing

From Quantum Computing to Quantum CommunicationsBy Michael A. CusumanoCommunications of the ACM, January 2023, Vol. 66 No. 1, Pages 24-27, 10.1145/3571450Quantum...

Robotizing the Living Room
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robotizing the Living Room

 Don't think I want this,  just notable. Rent it for some rearrangement?Warehouse Robots to Automate Your Living Room Kachaka’s warehouse-inspired mobile base can...

Malvertizing Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Malvertizing Search

Now reemerging,  imagine Google is very concerned.   Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download softwareOver the past month, Google has been...

AI Powered Microsoft Bing
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Powered Microsoft Bing

 Tking a deeper look,  Need to quantify the comparison. ACM NEWSMicrosoft Unveils AI-Powered Bing, a New Challenge to Google SearchBy CNet, February 7, 2023, by...

Life in a Climate-Impacted Future
From Putting People First

Life in a Climate-Impacted Future

The latest annual research from Ericsson ConsumerLab (January 2023) outlines consumers’ concerns, expectations and personal technology actions related to climate...

Ericsson on AI ethics
From Putting People First

Ericsson on AI ethics

This report by the IndustryLab of Ericsson, the Swedish multinational, aims to introduce the ethics of AI and explore how this fast-growing technology needs to...

The Problem with the Privacy of ChatGPT Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Problem with the Privacy of ChatGPT Data

 Very key issue, when we converse with any chatbot, they have learned something about our needs. To predict your next question.    As Chatbots gets more sophisticated...

Exploring Dreams at MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group
From The Eponymous Pickle

Exploring Dreams at MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group

Way back I worked on some related topics, just happened on this.   A new interface? A way into the brain?  Anyone know other groups doing related things?Youtube...

Space Based Solar Power
From The Eponymous Pickle

Space Based Solar Power

A considerable next step for Space exploration.Caltech Tests Space-Based Solar Power Using a satellite as testbed for wirelessly beaming power from orbit  By Ned...

Solid State Vehicle Batteries
From The Eponymous Pickle

Solid State Vehicle Batteries

 New directions in battery power for cars,   I have senn nasty examples of flaming wrecks, will ehi remove that danger.Home/News/The Holy Grail of Electric Vehicles...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Are We Nuts?

Gil Kalai is one of the top researchers in the world in the area of combinatorics. His blog is one of the best in the universe. He also has some of the top results...

Voting, fast and slow
From Putting People First

Voting, fast and slow

The online voting platform that was used by Italy's Five Star Movement to select the candidates for the 2013 parliamentary elections didn't take account of human...

Lego Computer Science: Logic with Truth Tables
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Lego Computer Science: Logic with Truth Tables

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London We have seen how to represent truth tables in lego. Truth tables are a way of giving precise meaning to logicalContinue...
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