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how to fail at biology and computer science
Seems that the Discovery Institute’s professional complainer Casey Luskin is taking his total lack of scientific education to new heights in a much belated rebuttal to Kitzmiller v. Dover case in...
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oh great, just what we need; sarcastic robots
Well, actually software which can detect sarcasm with impressive precision based on semantic cues if we wanted to be exact. It learned how to tell when someone is being sarcastic by tapping into the...
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mining biology for a communication model
Do biological cells compute? It’s a tricky question. From a purely technical standpoint, anything that takes an input of any kind and does something with it to produce an output is performing...
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do trading algorithms create a shadow market?
Your money is at the mercy of an enormous financial beast that even its human handlers can’t understand as it creates a complex shadow market almost undetectable to even the most experienced bankers...
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do we need a crackdown on stock trading bots?
I know, I know, this blog just went from discussing porn and medical research to a post on high frequency trading and its implications from a business and computer science perspective. But that’s just...
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why a conspiracy theorist and his money are soon parted
We live in a time when more voices than ever can be discovered and heard. There are fewer gatekeepers than ever. Technology that was once only available to professionals is an order of magnitude...
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why recommendation algorithms are a necessary evil
It really shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who owns a smartphone, uses any streaming video service, or social media site, that algorithms have a major effect on our lives today. Based on how much we...
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how cranks cheat algorithms and silence their critics
While recommendation and ranking algorithms may be a necessity to navigate our digital world, they’re not without their faults. In fact, you can argue that many of them are broken if we look at social...
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the real reason why hate continues to flourish on social media
A common refrain is that problematic content can’t be policed on social media because there are so many gray areas. To an extent, this is true, and if you want to get a handle on content you don’t...
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how social media algorithms turn us and our politicians into trolls
Over the last six years or so, you may have come to the conclusion that the tone of social media posts filling up your timelines has become noticeably angrier and more confrontational. Maybe you...
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