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Ruth Cuadra

When the Art Is Watching You - WSJ - 0 views

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    Museums are mining detailed information from visitors, raising questions about the use of Big Data in the arts.
Ruth Cuadra

The promise and peril of 'Big Data' - latimes.com - 1 views

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    Interesting take on thinking beyond privacy issues when considering regulations about recording information about Internet usage. "Regulators need to take care not to treat the analysis of anonymized information as if it were an ominous new form of surveillance."
Lisa Eriksen

CLOUDS Interactive Documentary on Digital Art - 0 views

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    Cool video on data art and crowd-scorce documentary
Ruth Cuadra

Data point: Consumers seek third-space experiences around food | JWT Intelligence - 0 views

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    millenials are eager for third space experiences at retail food outlets, e.g., grocery stories and restaurants gen-Xers also interested; baby boomers, less so Whole Foods comedy videos on YouTube showcase it as a spot for socializing and matchmaking
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    I sometimes wonder if museums might create a separate entrance for 'third place' side experiences... is there a way to take some less valuable square footage - and turn it into something unique... and build some buzz around the experience
Lisa Eriksen

Video from a dystopian future: how location data can be abused - Boing Boing - 0 views

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    Wow, this is scary, but not incomprehensible....
Ruth Cuadra

Mining Twitter gold, at five bucks a pop - 1 views

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    A man purchases fake Twitter followers that generate some very real results.  Reflects on whether "big data" is necessarily reliable.
Elizabeth Merritt

Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science? | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian - 0 views

  • we’ve realised that artificial intelligences (AIs), particularly a form of machine learning called neural networks, which learn from data without having to be fed explicit instructions, are themselves fallible.
  • The second is that humans turn out to be deeply uncomfortable with theory-free science.
  • there may still be plenty of theory of the traditional kind – that is, graspable by humans – that usefully explains much but has yet to be uncovered.
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  • The theories that make sense when you have huge amounts of data look quite different from those that make sense when you have small amounts
  • The bigger the dataset, the more inconsistencies the AI learns. The end result is not a theory in the traditional sense of a precise claim about how people make decisions, but a set of claims that is subject to certain constraints.
  • theory-free predictive engines embodied by Facebook or AlphaFold.
  • “Explainable AI”, which addresses how to bridge the interpretability gap, has become a hot topic. But that gap is only set to widen and we might instead be faced with a trade-off: how much predictability are we willing to give up for interpretability?
Elizabeth Merritt

Heatwaves Are Shutting Down Data Centers, Breaking the Internet - 1 views

  • Despite heat waves becoming a common occurrence globally, companies such as Twitter are grossly underprepared for the havoc that intense heat can wreak on the technology industry.
  • backup generators and external power equipment can also be affected by heat waves
David Bloom

5x5x5: Rick Smolan Of 'The Human Face Of Big Data' Talks About Transformative Tech - 0 views

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    Five guests from a variety of sectors will answer questions on how technology and innovation can be used for social good.
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