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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
Oculus Rift
In Gizmodo, continued raving for Oculus Rift. Here a hands on look. Still I don't think that most people would be comfortable with the 'strap a screen to your...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Focused CPG Ads
In EMarketer, continued brand focusing of ads:Study: $4.2B CPG digital ad market focuses on brandingConsumer packaged goods and consumer products companies in the...
From Apophenia
Matt Wolf’s “Teenage”
Close your eyes and imagine what it was like to be a teenager in the 1920s. Perhaps you are out late dancing swing to jazz or dressed up as a flapper. Most likely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Swarms
A good overview, non technical article on Swarms. We did some thinking about using robot swarms for repetitive tasks. You can build cheap robot swarms, making...
From Putting People First
Left to our own devices
Our well-being centers on the meaningfulness of our relationships: our intimate ties, our associations with a larger circle of people, and our sense of interconnectivity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eric Siegel: Predictive Analytics
Predictive Analytics speaker and consultant Eric Siegel gave the Keynote at today's UC Analytics Summit: Real-World Impact from Business Analytics. Very nicely...
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Detecting Spurious Correlations
Detailed piece by Vincent Granville. Useful for reference and application. Tutorial: How to detect spurious correlations, and how to find the real onesSpecifically...
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Wearable Device Supports Text Reading
(Abstract, full article requires purchase)FingerReader: a wearable device to support text reading on the goVisually impaired people report numerous difficulties...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Practical Machine Learning Problems
Short piece that addresses typical techniques. But it is not all about technique, it is how the technique is connected to the data from the domain of the problem...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
You shouldn’t use a spreadsheet for important work (I mean it)
I envy economists. Unlike computer scientists, they seem to be able to publish best-seller books with innovative research. One such book is Piketty’s Capital. The...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Moving From "CS for a Few" to "CS for All" to "CS For Each"
When I first joined CSTA almost a decade ago, computer science education was absent from most school districts. Rigorous computer science courses were often tucked...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
STOC 1500
What STOC might have been like in old times src Mikolaj Kopernik was a student of the professor mathematum Domenico Novara in 1500. They traveled from Bologna to...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
STOC 1500
What STOC might have been like in old times src Mikolaj Kopernik was a student of the professor mathematum Domenico Novara in 1500. They traveled from Bologna to...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink Cocktail
Del Campo, a restaurant in Washington DC, has a Bloody Mary made with squid ink. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in...
From Schneier on Security
Alan Watts on the Harms of Surveillance
Biologist Alan Watts makes some good points: Mammals don’t respond well to surveillance. We consider it a threat. It makes us paranoid, and aggressive and vengeful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata's Data Lab
It is very useful to have a lab to experiment with your data. Here is Teradata's approach. " ... Promote Exploration & ExperimentationA Teradata Data Lab lets...
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Intelligence Matters from O'Reilly
In OReilly: A new blog that appears to be of interest: " ... Today we’re kicking off Intelligence Matters (IM), a new series exploring current issues in artificial...
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Proposed Thermal Imaging Wearable AR Headset
New from Metaio. A video describe the future possibilities. Another level of sensor data will be possible. In the press release: " ... With “Thermal Touch”,“Thermal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Business Intelligence
An important consideration is often what the size of the time step needs to be. I often have to ask, What does your 'real-time' look like? In TDWI. " ... "Real...
From Computational Complexity