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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
Google Acquires Nets Research Company
Google acquires Neural net focused company DNNresearch. We worked with artificial neural nets to replace some statistical techniques for shopping behavior analysis...
From Putting People First
The problem with big data correlations
“The people using big data don’t presume to peer deeply into people’s souls,” argues David Brooks in the New York Times (in a March 2013 column). “They don’t try...
From Putting People First
The Qualified Self
Looking at yet another tweet and another post about the Quantified Self, I started reflecting this morning on the Silicon Valley-driven fascination with the quantification...
From Putting People First
The science behind using online communities to change behavior
Sean Young, a behavioral psychologist, a family medicine professor and director of innovation at the center for behavioral and addiction medicine at UCLA, addresses...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Share Your Ideas and Experiences at the CSTA Conference
The call for proposals for the 14th Annual CSTA Conference is now live. The conference will be held on July 14-15, 2014 at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GePhi Open Graphics Blog
Started to follow the GePhi open graphics blog. Its all about networks, big and small. Free and open research software. Examining now. " ... Networks are...
From Computational Complexity
Complexity and FOCS
The Conference on Computational Complexity Call for Papers is out, deadline November 27. The deadline for early registration and hotel for the FOCS conferenceavailable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asking Questions to Tell a Story
Speculative. Story-asking? ... A post by Althouse brought this to mind. Where she relates the game played in Tom Stoppard's play (and movie) Rosencrantz and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Story Driven Data Analysis
In the HBR blog (Registration required). A well told story is the essence of analytics." ... Great analysts tell great stories based on the results of their analyses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Realities of Mind Control
In Mind Hacks: A discussion of experiments in mind control. All communications, and most specifically, advertising, are methods of influence. So we are rightly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pay Attention Eye Tracking
An interesting concept .... can eye tracking software force you to pay attention during company training? Intrusive, but for some specialized applications. perhaps...
From Schneier on Security
Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Backbone
We know from the Snowden documents (and other sources) that the NSA taps Internet backbone through secret-agreements with major U.S. telcos., but the U.S. government...
From Putting People First
Ethnography and speculative fiction
Two new articles on Ethnography Matters: Ethnographies from the Future: What can ethnographers learn from science fiction and speculative design? Laura Forlano...
From Putting People First
Book: People-Centered Innovation
People-Centered Innovation: Becoming a Practitioner in Innovative Research by Pedro Oliveira Biblio Publishing, 2013 194 pages [Amazon] Written with a general audience...
From My Biased Coin
Yelp Reviews News
Giorgos Zervas is in the news again (with Michael Luca of Harvard Business School), this time for his work on filtered/fake Yelp reviews. See also this piece in...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Dictionary For Reading Proofs
What those phrases really mean Eduardo Tengan is a mathematician at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Computation in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has written...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: A Squid that Fishes
The Grimalditeuthis bonplandi is the only known squid to use its tenticles to fish: Its tentacles are thin and fragile, and almost always break off when it's captured...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Plans for 3D Printing in Supermarkets
Tesco as a center for 3D printing, to compete with office services stores, as opposed to printing some of their own products? But certainly also small parts to...
From Schneier on Security
Another Schneier Interview
I was interviewed for Technology Review on the NSA and the Snowden documents.
From My Biased Coin