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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
Making Sense of Big Data with Visualization
I have said it often, visualization, a form of descriptive analytics, should be the first method used to understand any kind of data. Especially large scale and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retaining Human Touch in Process
In CIOInsight: Some useful cautions about automation. Sure we want to do things as efficiently as possible, but there is still value to include humans in customer...
From Putting People First
Why government websites are terrible and how to fix them
By exposing how confusing food stamp applications and other government online services can be, Citizen Onboard hopes to make them better. Anna North reports in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Enterprise as a Connection of Things
In Baseline: Enterprise as a collection of things, and their internal and external connections. People too. " ... There's a growing interest in understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pangrammatic Tweets
Always have been interested in how to programmatically analyze text. We worked with large text bases long ago using what was then called 'content analysis', which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mind Tricks of Scammers
In the BBC: On the psychology of scamming. While we often pay attention to the technology involved, the scamming methods that exist have been around for a long...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Open Source Docker
Of interest, new to me:" ... Google is putting its considerable weight behind an open source technology that’s already one of the hottest new ideas in the world...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Basic Information About Apple Pay
A good, short overview of some of the technical and practical aspects of Apple Pay. Taking a closer look.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Burger
McDonald's has a Halloween-themed burger with a squid-ink bun. Only in Japan. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
From My Biased Coin
Andreessen-Horowitz Again
Andreessen Horowitz had a second Academic Roundtable, gathering together academics, VCs, and people in startups to talk for a few days about a variety of topics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transforming Messaging with the Data
Foodies Transforming grocery messaging. Not really a technical idea, but an understanding that the form of the message needs to adapt to change in consumer expectations...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Coffee is probably not killing your productivity
A recent Slate articles warns that coffee makes you less productive. The main claim is that coffee has no cognition enhancement ability but, instead, a range of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Bogus Reviews
How good is data science at detecting and flagging bogus reviews in Amazon or Yelp? Some interesting points about how these problems are created and their solution...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What a Phone Can't Tell Police
Fascinating, non technical look at the complexity of what can and cannot be derived from cell phone based location information.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procedurally Generated Games, Advertising
Procedurally generated games allow new kinds of backgrounds, components and interactions to be provided in a virtual world. This was discussed early on as wayIn...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Doing It My Way
I suspect that there are a lot of programs and websites available that let teachers enter a class roster and randomly pick out a student name. I know several teachers...
From Schneier on Security
William Binney Explains NSA Surveillance Using Snowden's Documents
Former NSA employee -- not technical director, as the link says -- explains how NSA bulk surveillance works, using some of the Snowden documents. Very interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lotus 1-2-3 Support Ended
Historical note. We used Lotus extensively in the enterprise in the late 80s. It was the second major electronic spreadsheet offering, after Visicalc. We also...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Intelligence in the World University
It has been a while since I have looked at Wikis outside of Wikipedia. We developed intra-Wikis experimentally, but not with great success. Check some of my other...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog