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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 Computational Complexity
paperfree?- we are not there yet
Last time I taught I had to decide if I would HAND OUT the HW or just say its posted (NOTE- I post it in any case.) This may seem old fashion but I think there...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How I learned mathematics (as a kid)
As I reported elsewhere, I technically failed kindergarten. For example, one of the test we had to pass was the memorization of our home phone number. I refused...
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Should You Learn Scala?
It depends on what you want to accomplish*, but the answer is probably yes.By way of background, Scala is a programming language originally developed at the Swiss...
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Upgrading to Scala 2.10.0
Scala 2.10.0 came out recently. It has many nice features I haven't used yet, for instance type tags, and production versions of many nice features that I was already...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UC Data Visualization Day
Reading with pleasure Stephen Few's book "Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten", Second Edition. It was good to see that Stephen FewData...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Securing the Internet of Things
In Wired: We are looking forward to leveraging the data generated by the internet of things. New trasparency in supply chain analysis, social behavior and transactional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HP's Big Data Analytics
Attending this on Wednesday at 9 AM in Cincinnati. More information. Lets meet there. " ... Are you interested in gaining insight into your business fasterThis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Big Data
Gib Bassett provides a note by Mark Zielinski on the value of big data social data. " ... Since late 2011, the market research industry and market research technology...
From Schneier on Security
The Origins of War
Philosophy professor David Livingstone Smith on the origins of war.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 January 2013
half way through January. How’s it going so far? Been interesting for me so far. Hope to have some news about my future plans soon as well. For now, always looking...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Crown Game Affair
What constitutes evidence of cheating? src Faye Dunaway is an Academy Award-winning actress who co-starred with the late Steve McQueen in the 1968 movie “The Thomas...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
On Allowing Boys Into a Girls' Camp
Today I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel about engaging girls in STEM at Actua's annual conference. I offered my perspective on computer science outreach...
From Apophenia
processing the loss of Aaron Swartz
The last 24 hours have been an emotional roller coaster. I woke up yesterday to find that a friend of mine – Aaron Swartz – had taken his life. My Twitter feed...
From My Biased Coin
Aaron Swartz : Links
If you haven't done so already, today is a good day to reflect upon the life of Aaron Swartz. If you haven't heard of him or need background, you can always start...
From Putting People First
How a simple smartphone can turn your car, home, or medical device into a deadly weapon
The day is not far off when the manipulation of medical devices will be done routinely by punching keys on a smartphone, writes Charles C. Mann in Vanity Fair,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Networked Refrigerators
At CES, Samsung once again pushes the smart refrigerator, " ... Technology has helped solve many problems for us. We make phone calls and read emails from wherever...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones as Lifephones
In the NYT: Smartphones as life's remote controls. Sufficient and increasingly necessary to make efficient decisions. And are becoming able to control our world...
From My Biased Coin
Government 1310 -- What's New?
So, as many of you may remember, Harvard had a rather embarrassing cheating scandal flare up at the start of the academic year, involving over 100 students. To...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pinning Criminals
An example of using Pinterest to place pictures of wanted criminals and provide other policing information. Apparently this has been useful. Have looked at related...
From The Eponymous Pickle