Collaborate Disseminate
Which programming language saw the biggest jump on TIOBE’s index of language popularity over the last year?
Unlike last year — it’s not Python. An anonymous reader quotes TIOBE.com:
It is good old language C that wins the award this time with an ye… Continue reading 2019’s Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says TIOBE
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 quotes Science Alert:
Among the 100,000 most cited scientists between 1996 to 2017, there’s a stealthy pocket of researchers who represent “extreme self-citations and ‘citation farms’ (relatively small clusters of aut… Continue reading Some of the World’s Most-Cited Scientists Have a Secret That’s Just Been Exposed
One 2016 human resources study found that 48% of American businesses — and 57% of U.K. businesses — used personality questionnaires for hiring decisions, a new article reports. They add that the personality test industry may now be bringing in up to … Continue reading Do Personality Tests Give Companies Too Much Power?
One of America’s top foodservice distributor’s recently surveyed 1,518 customers of food-delivery services — and then also surveyed 500 delivery drivers. Restaurant Business magazine shares one surprising result:
About 21% of delivery customers worry… Continue reading 28% of Delivery Drivers Have Tasted Your Food, Survey Finds
schwit1 writes: Nearly everything we buy, how we buy, and where we’re buying from is secretly fed into AI-powered verification services that help companies guard against credit-card and other forms of fraud, according to the Wall Street Journal.
More … Continue reading We’re All Being Judged By a Secret ‘Trustworthiness’ Score
schwit1 writes: Nearly everything we buy, how we buy, and where we’re buying from is secretly fed into AI-powered verification services that help companies guard against credit-card and other forms of fraud, according to the Wall Street Journal.
More … Continue reading We’re All Being Judged By a Secret ‘Trustworthiness’ Score
An anonymous reader quotes NPR:
In recent months, a slew of studies has debunked predictions that we’re witnessing the dawn of a new “gig economy.” The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) found that there was actually a decline in the categories of … Continue reading Why Hasn’t The Gig Economy Killed Traditional Work?
Long-time Slashdot reader kbahey writes: The increased reliance on machine-learning techniques used by thousands of scientists to analyze data, is producing results that are misleading and often completely wrong, according to the BBC.
Dr. Genevera Al… Continue reading Misleading Results From Widely-Used Machine-Learning Data Analysis Techniques
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: U.S. cable Internet customers are using an average of 268.7GB per month, and 4.1 percent of households use at least 1TB, according to new research by the vendor OpenVault. Households that use at le… Continue reading Terabyte-Using Cable Customers Double, Increasing Risk of Data Cap Fees
As the saying goes, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” We know that’s true because statisticians themselves just said so. From a report: A stunning report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine concludes that rese… Continue reading 1 In 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked To Commit Scientific Fraud