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The History 2.0 Classroom: Explain Everything X Google Drive = Awesome! - 0 views
TerraCom and YourTel threaten journalists who exposed massive personal data breach - Bo... - 0 views
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"Journalists discovered that two companies had posted the personal data of 170,000 customers online. The leak, which exposed the victims to identity theft and fraud, was reportedly so bad that social security numbers, passport scans, financial data and home addresses were indexed by search engines. Rather than merely address the problem, however, TerraCom and YourTel threatened the reporters, referring to them as "hackers" and accusing them of "numerous violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act"
UK government online disability benefits signup requires IE6 - Boing Boing - 0 views
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"To claim Disability Living Allowance or Attendance Allowance in the UK people are being asked to use Internet Explorer 5 or 6 and other systems that are so out of date they are available on less than 2% of computers. If you want to claim online you will need to take a step back to the 1990s and hunt through second hand shops for an old PC that you can power up. "
Algorithmic cruelty: when Gmail adds your harasser to your speed-dial / Boing Boing - 0 views
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"It's not that Google wants to do this, it's that they didn't anticipate this outcome, and compounded that omission by likewise omitting a way to overrule the algorithm's judgment. As with other examples of algorithmic cruelty, it's not so much this specific example as was it presages for a future in which more and more of our external reality is determined by models derived from machine learning systems whose workings we're not privy to and have no say in. "
Real time face capture lets you control famous faces / Boing Boing - 0 views
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"Researchers at Stanford have developed face-capture technology that can alter pre-recorded videos in real-time on low cost computers. In other words, you can make George W Bush or Donald Trump appear intelligent. "
An "ahem" detector that uses deep learning to auto-clean recordings of speech / Boing B... - 0 views
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"Train the Deep Learning Ahem Detector with two sets of audio files, "a negative sample with clean voice/sound" (minimum 3 minutes) and "a positive one with 'ahem' sounds concatenated" (minimum 10s) and it will detect "ahems" in any voice sample thereafter."
New AI algorithm taught by humans learns beyond its training - 0 views
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"This figure compares a traditionally trained algorithm to Aarabi and Guo's heuristically trained neural net."
People really, really suck at using computers / Boing Boing - 0 views
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"95% of the US population, 93% of Europeans and 92% of Asians can't do "level three" tasks like "You want to know what percentage of the emails sent by John Smith last month were about sustainability" -- tasks where "use of tools (e.g. a sort function) is required to make progress towards the solution. The task may involve multiple steps and operators. The goal of the problem may have to be defined by the respondent, and the criteria to be met may or may not be explicit.""
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