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Learn different strategies for incrementally adopting Next.js into your development workflow.

With diverse environments, we can analyze, diagnose and edit deep reinforcement learning models using attribution.

Hans Moravec famously claimed that robots will be our (mind) children. If true, then, it is natural to wonder What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots? This is the question that Laura Major and Julie Shah – two expert robot engineers, are addressing in their new book. Given the subject of robots and AI as […]

Build or buy? This is a question we run into often. Why should I buy your text mining product or something similar from one of your competitors when I can build it myself? Is there an easy answer to this question? Maybe not easy, but we think once you look at the different factors in […]

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DejaDup is the default backup application for Gnome. It’s a GUI for duplicity, focuses on simplicity, supports incremental encrypted backups and up until recently supported a large number of cloud providers. Unfortunately as of version 42.0, all major cloud providers have been removed. Thus given that Ubuntu 20.10 ships with the specific version, any user […]

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A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or luck about how YC got going, it can’t be that hard, and 2) if you can get it off the ground, the network effects are self-sustaining. More YC-like things are good for the world; I generally try to be helpful. But almost none of them work. People are right about the self-sustaining part, but they can’t

With the new qualitative content analysis functions of Provalis Research’s QDA Miner, market research firms and marketing analysts can shorten the analysis process and gain deeper client experience (CX) insights. Provalis Research, the leading provider of text analytics solutions, announces the release of version 6 of QDA Miner. The latest release of this qualitative content […]

Melanie Mitchell is the Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, and Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University. Prof. Mitchell is the author of a number of interesting books such as Complexity: A Guided Tour and Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. One interesting detail of her academic bio is […]

Why is Web Browser Engineering in Python? In short, Python is popular, readable, and has access to standard system APIs.

We all know that Covid-19 has decimated the travel industry. Most experts believe it will take years before travel returns to 2019 levels. What will it take to get there? In their paper Ugur & Akbiyik (2020) use text mining to look for some of the potential answers. The paper uses data from early in […]

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Examining the design of interactive articles by synthesizing theory from disciplines such as education, journalism, and visualization.

Content marketing is a strategic marketing method to develop valuable and relevant brand content to a target audience. It is not about pushing products but about relating and sharing stories to build relationships and connect with specific consumers. Content marketing has been used for years. There are many examples of specially targeted publications that were […]

Have you noticed that the byline on https://browser.engineering has changed? Chris Harrelson will be joining Web Browser Engineering as a co-author. He’s already working to make WBE deeper and more realistic based on his experience on the Chrome team.

A collection of articles and comments with the goal of understanding how to design robust and general purpose self-organizing systems.

Training an end-to-end differentiable, self-organising cellular automata for classifying MNIST digits.

Jenny Kleeman is a journalist who covers award-winning true stories in print, audio, and video. Most recently Kleeman is the author of a meticulously researched and extremely well-written book titled Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontiers of Birth, Food, Sex and Death. Given that birth, food, sex, and death encompass the human […]

Chapter 2 is ready. Read about window handles, display lists, and events. Our browser creates a window, draws text to it, and tells a story about a monkey. (My favorite part is the aside on Chinese line layout.)

Jacinta González is not an angel or venture capitalist. She is not a scientist or a technologist. She doesn’t have a Ph.D. in AI or quantum mechanics. She is not an entrepreneur who founded the next unicorn startup. Yet Jacinta’s decade-long first-hand experience of surveillance, and the system and technology that supports it, is as […]

The Datumbox Framework v0.8.2 has been released! Download it now from GitHub or Maven Central Repository. What is new? The version 0.8.2 is a limited incremental release that focuses on resolving bugs and updating the dependencies of the framework. Here are the details: Bug Fixes: Resolved an issue on ShapiroWilk which led to the incorrect […]

Discussions: Hacker News (397 points, 97 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (247 points, 27 comments) Translations: German, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Russian, Turkish The tech world is abuzz with GPT3 hype. Massive language models (like GPT3) are starting to surprise us with their abilities. While not yet completely reliable for most businesses to put in front of their customers, these models are showing sparks of cleverness that are sure to accelerate the march of automation and the possib

Here is an image from the 10th art of neuroscience contest. It is striking in that it gives a view of the brain, where there are two major parts: the cerebrum and the cerebellum. Of course there are a lot of interesting structures hidden within the cerebrum, but still: Is this a von Neumann architecture, […]

The Covid 19 virus has been with us since late 2019 but only spread into a pandemic in early 2020. That is just seven months ago. Since then there have been thousands of journal articles, news reports, editorials, reports, commentaries, blogs and all other matter of text documents dealing with the virus, its spread and […]

Last month I did an interview for Johan Steyn. It was a great 45-min-conversation where we covered a variety of topics such as: the definition of the singularity; whether we are making progress towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI); open vs closed systems; the importance of consciousness; my Amazon bestseller Conversations with the Future; how I […]

Renée Cummings is a criminologist, criminal psychologist, and an AI ethicist who, among other things, specializes in best-practice criminal justice interventions and implicit bias. Given the global Black Lives Matter movement and the fact that there have been numerous examples where technological solutions have been proven to exhibit a biased or even racist predisposition, I […]

Bibliometrics and scientometrics often involve the monitoring of research, the assessment of the scientific contribution of authors, journals, specific works, or citations as well as the analysis of the dissemination process of scientific knowledge. The discipline has grown rapidly over the last 10-20 years. One of the reasons is the advent of readily available computer […]

John Ford Public Sector Research Psychologist The author can be reached at johnford514@yahoo.com This is the second of two Blogs on the Hiller Dictionary. The first one is titled Hiller Vagueness Dictionary: A Content Analysis Dictionary that Keeps on Giving The Hiller Communication Vagueness scales are useful measures of document clarity because they use vocabulary […]

Any time you have a benchmark that gets taken seriously, some people will start gaming the benchmark. Some famous examples in computing are the CPU benchmark specfp and video game benchmarks. With specfp, Sun managed to increase its score on 179.art (a sub-benchmark of specfp) by 12x with a compiler tweak that essentially re-wrote the benchmark kernel, which increase

2020 is the year where machine learning on mobile is no longer the hot new thing. Adding some kind of intelligence to apps has become standard practice. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean Apple has stopped innovating. 😅 In this blog post, I’ll summarize what’s new

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I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always individual exceptions, on average it’s surprising to me how different the best people in these groups are (including in some qualities that I had assumed were present in great people everywhere, like very high levels of self-belief). So I’ve been thinking about the ways they’re the same, because maybe there is something to learn about qualities of really effective people in general. The best peopl

This is the first of two Blogs on the Hiller Vagueness Dictionary It all started back in the late sixties and early seventies when J.H. Hiller and his collaborators wrote a series of papers exploring communication vagueness. Back in those early days they used computer-assisted content analysis to analyze lectures, students papers and presentations to […]

Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world"

Part one of a three part deep dive into the curve neuron family.