Collaborate Disseminate
In a new article called “It’s Time To Get Real About Power in Silicon Valley“, I noticed much of the history is very wrong. For example, this is false history: Travis Kalanick who saw taxicab drivers not as solid middle class citizens, like many of us … Continue reading It’s Time To Get History Accurate About Power in Silicon Valley
A crucial point made in a lecture on computer heuristics by Richard Feynman is knowledge shouldn’t be treated like competition:
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The British Government has announced their Home Office will have a Director General for Homeland Security. Some in the UK reacted by saying it sounds American. Nice try. I thought everyone knows that America most definitely gets most of its English ter… Continue reading Homeland Isn’t an American Word
Keith Gunderson, a pioneering philosopher of robotics, in his 1964 paper called “Descartes, La Mettrie, Language and Machines” captured this Robert Stoothoff translation of the 1637 Discourse: If there were machines which bore a resemblance to our bodi… Continue reading Descartes on AI: I Think, Therefore I Am… Not a Machine
My head hurt when I read a new “insider” article on detecting and preventing hate on big data platforms. It’s awful on many, many levels. It’s like seeing a story on airplane safety where former staff reveal they couldn’t agree politically on how to me… Continue reading Big Tech Admits Security Teams Politically Directed and Intentionally Blind to Hate Groups
A new paper in Nature says they have an algorithm that can read tightly folded letters without opening them physically. The challenge tackled here is to reconstruct the intricate folds, tucks, and slits of unopened letters secured shut with “letterlock… Continue reading X-Rays Defeat LetterLocking: Secrets Exposed of Ancient Folded Papers
I’m curious about a theory posted in a rhyming-slang encoding guide meant to demystify some fun yet secretive communication: …no cake can be eaten that has not been given (by a shopkeeper) and taken… “Give and Take” is thus said to mean the word cake. … Continue reading The Give and Take of Cake
I recently had to explain that someone edited the Wikipedia entry on Woodrow Wilson to falsely claim that the very man who called for a return of the KKK, restarted the KKK as President, and led its rise to humanitarian disasters across America… was op… Continue reading Why is Wikepedia So Racist?
E-ink displays haven’t revolutionized the world so much as served us humbly in e-book readers such as the Kindle and its ilk. Most such readers are designed for extended sessions reading novels and the like, but [Roni Bandini] decided a …read more
by Paul Laurence Dunbar …born in Dayton, Ohio, on June 27, 1872. His parents, Joshua Dunbar and Matilda Murphy Dunbar, were married six months earlier, on December 24, 1871. Both slaves prior to the Civil War, Joshua Dunbar escaped and served in both t… Continue reading We Wear the Mask