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Four short links: 11 April 2016
SpeechKITT -- open source flexible GUI for interacting with Speech Recognition in your web app. The Humanities Majors Designing AI Interactions -- who else are you going to get to do it? As in...
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Four short links: 12 April 2016
Robust and Transparent Governance is Key to Building Trust in Driverless Cars (Robohub) -- I was just talking through this with my cousin. Who makes decisions and how accountable are they for them? We...
View ArticleFour short links: 13 April 2016
focusmotion.io -- the worldâs first machine learning SDK to track, learn, and analyze human motion on any sensor, on any OS, on any platform. You (or your users) train it on what combination of...
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Four Short Links: 14 April 2016
Tech CEOs Cast Themselves as the New Statesmen (Buzzfeed) -- the logical consequence of the corporation replacing elected government as the most efficacious unit of organization. How Many Miles of...
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Four short links: 15 April 2016
How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time (PDF) -- Hal Varian's article is to economics research what The Manual by the KLF is to pop music. Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? (Scientific...
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View ArticleFour short links: 18 April 2016
Classic Programmer Paintings -- hilarity has ensued. The captions are brilliant. Equality Takes Work -- Women do not prefer saying less: They anticipate the treatment they will receive when they say...
View ArticleFour short links: 19 April 2016
Security Controls for Computer Systems -- Declassified 1970s DoD security document is still relevant today. (via Ars Technica) Checking Up on Dataflow Analyses -- notable for a very easy-to-follow...
View ArticleFour short links: 20 April 2016
Why Should I Trust You?: Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier (PDF) -- LIME, a novel explanation technique that explains the predictions of any classifier in an interpretable and faithful...
View ArticleFour short links: 21 April 2016
Bribing Miners to Regulate Bitcoin -- interesting! A somewhat conspiracy-theoretical take on an MIT proposal to layer identity onto Bitcoin. Features repurposed DRM tech, no less. Tesla Model X...
View ArticleFour short links: 22 April 2016
Why The Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous to Everyone -- read with Fortune's take on the Tech IPO Market. "They profess to take a long-term view, but the data shows post-IPO stocks are...
View ArticleFour short links: 25 April 2016
Making Movies with Virtual Reality -- As Julia Kaganskiy, who runs an art-and-technology incubator at the New Museum, put it, âWeâre watching the semiotics come together in front of our eyes.â A...
View ArticleFour short links: 26 April 2016
Driverless Trucking Numbers (TechCrunch) -- $4.5k to truck something across country, 75% of which is labour. Trucks most fuel-efficient at 45mph but drivers are paid by the hour and their hours capped...
View ArticleFour short links: 27 April 2016
Idea Space VR -- CMS for VR worlds published on the open web. Does Science Advance One Funeral At a Time? (PDF) -- answer: yes. Research shows that when alpha scientists die, their collaborators...
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