Pi
The Economist :: Babbage Blog :: Humble Pi The Raspberry Pi is the brainchild of a couple of computer scientists at Cambridge University. Back in 2006, they lamented the decline in programming skills...
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Jude Robinson :: The single most useful thing in bash Create ~/.inputrc and fill it with this: "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward set show-all-if-ambiguous on set...
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Reading List for 23 September 2013
Arnold Kling :: Big Gods Here is a question to think about. If religions help to create social capital by allowing people to signal conscientiousness, conformity, and trustworthiness [as Norenzayan...
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Marketing to Algorithms?
Toby Gunton :: Computer says no – why brands might end up marketing to algorithms I know plenty about algorithms, and enough about marketing. 1 And despite that, I'm not sure what this headline...
View ArticleWill AI steal our jobs?
As an AI researcher, I think I am required to have an opinion about this. Here's what I have to say to the various tribes. AI-pessimists: please remember that the Luddites have been wrong about...
View ArticleAI's "one trick pony" has a hell of a trick
The MIT Technology Review has a recent article by James Somers about error backpropagation, "Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony?" Overall, I agree with the message in the article. We need to keep thinking...
View ArticleAIES 2018
Last week I attended the first annual conference on AI, Ethics & Society where I presented some work on a Decision Tree/Random Forest algorithm that makes decisions that are less biased or...
View ArticleWhy we worry about the Ethics of Machine Intelligence
This essay was co-authored by myself and Steve Mills. We worry about the ethics of Machine Intelligence (MI) and we fear our community is completely unprepared for the power we now wield. Let us tell...
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Art in Space
Today I'm going to put on my Tyler Cowen hat and speculate about what art work will be valuable when humans are space-faring. That's a pretty big range of possibilities, so let's keep things to a...
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Book List: 2019Q1
I think I did less reading this quarter than at any point since I beat dyslexia. Certainly less than any point since I started keeping track in 2011, and that includes the period when I finished my...
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