Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Tools are easy now, data is hard; Background culture; Tingly is a decision I have to live with; Uniqueness Index … Kissane linked to an MIT Tech Review piece on weather forecasting 6 . Writing the code is easier. Processing the data is easier -- but kind of? The importance of …
- It Was Supposed To Be Different; Reading Material … I probably started in the very very late 2000s, and ended up writing about it in Domus back in 2012 3 and again in 2019 in MIT Technology …
- A Very Short Announcement … In the meantime, you might be interested in a related op ed I wrote for the MIT Technology Review, From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the …
- Just Put A Fucking Warning Label On It; A Sort Of Qualified Immunity; Doing a Spreadsheets is Coding; Rotate 75 Degrees Around The Vertical … Fixing the internet Katie Notopoulos' How to fix the internet [8] in the MIT Technology Review caught my attention! It draws a through-line from the commercial internet …
- Consensual Hallucination; Hospitals; Warm, Statistically Plausible Generic Platitudes … are called "kismet" [6] and a product of the now clearly morally problematic MIT Media Lab. And then what I will leave you with is my thought that …
- It's still about Ethics in Dataset Collection, Attribution and Licensing, but also Governance … How are you doing? Best, Dan The walls are closing in on Clearview AI , Melissa Heikkilä, May 24, 2022, MIT Tech Review ↩︎ Making things that have processors in …
- The Ridiculously Complex, Subtle and Glorious Dynamic Context of Human Relationships … They often don't. ", in the MIT Tech Review. I did a thing where I write about it in a newsletter, then write about the newsletter in a …
- Technology and Being a Person … which is a nice collision in my head with this MIT Tech Review piece by Tanya Basu, " Chore apps were meant to make mothers' lives easier. They often …
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15 … When we say “accountable”, we mean Karen Hao has a new-ish piece in the MIT Tech Review: “ Big Tech’s guide to talking about AI ethics ” Caught …
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things … As of June 8, 2020, Facebook had 15,000 content moderators [ MIT Technology Review ]. A Verge investigation in 2019 found that Facebook’s contract content moderators from Cognizant …
- The Return of Snow Crash - Snow Crashing: Chapter 14, part 2 … Rife divulges this in an interview with, get this: “a celebrity professor from MIT” and well let me tell you does observation age well with the benefit of …
- Despairing sisyphean absurdity … The prompt for that first thread was Cat Ferguson’s What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system , published by the MIT Technology Review, also …
- Why design experiences, when you can design states of mind? … does the Lab, and by extension MIT, actually want to change? It is, after all, an institution. The lab is 35 years old now. MIT is positively ancient …
- They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They? … I said I’d write more about MIT’s search for a new Media Lab Director in this episode, but it doesn’t look like I’ve gotten …
- An Institution at the Intersection of Technology and Society … And what of MIT’s diversity ? In 2005, MIT's faculty at the assistant level was 5% Black or African American (3% in 2020), 4% for Associates (4 …
- This Is Your Regular Reminder … A false positive or false match rate is when a match is found when there isn’t actually a match. [ MIT Technology Review reporting on Part 3 of …
- Take your time reading this one … loved doing) I write, like about ECGs in smartwatches in last year’s MIT Tech Review on breakthrough technologies, guest edited by Bill Gates, and about topics like …
- Tireless five year olds … Applin , I saw a tweet from @ hypervisible about Streetscore , an algorithm from MIT Media Lab. Streetscore “assigns a score to a street view based on how safe it …
- Safer Routes Home? … Joppa is most likely a really smart person who is not at all like the Farm in a Box lead at MIT’s Media Lab who did not …
- "Leverage-meets-Parks-and-Rec" … Xeni , who I would like to say is a very nice Internet Friend, has been screaming about MIT and the MIT Media Lab’s connections with Jeffrey Epstein …
- Do Better … Stallman was already problematic before his support Jeffrey Epstein came out in his emails to the MIT CSAIL list. There was already a whisper network. I wasn’t …
- The Inevitable And Possibly Ill-Advised Reboot … She graduated from MIT in 1989, and got a Master’s from MIT, too. In 1990, she co-founded iRobot with two other guys. One of which I …
- Interesting Times … 2.0 Grab bag Researchers at MIT have published a paper about a deep-learning artificial neural network implemented in photonic circuitry instead of traditional Von-Neuman/Turing …
- Politeness … security robot) [7] Baidu's Deep-Learning System Rivals People at Speech Recognition | MIT Technology Review [8] Finishing school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [9] Ladette to Lady - Wikipedia …
- Uncanny Valley; Network Du Jour; Streaking Considered Harmful … in a network. [0] Graph Genome Offers New Reference Map of Human Genes | MIT Technology Review 3.0 Streaking Considered Harmful I got ill recently, the kind of …
- The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density … Bruce Sterling [3] The Latest Chat App for iPhone Needs No Internet Connection - MIT Tech Review [4] Little Brother - Cory Doctorow -- 10:20pm, a day full of hiding …
- Sketchy; Don't Call It Sharing; Walking Sensors, Contd.; 2014 (3) … A woman has won the Fields Medal for the first time, and IKEA is updating its minimum wage in the USA by using a tool built by MIT …
- Dark Value; The Latest Attempt; Five Eyes … were, take a stress pill. Or at least get up and walk. Bonus: MIT obviously open-sourced the algorithm, so first one to the Mac App Store wins …
- Solid 2 of 2; Requests - GOV.UK 2018; Next … Neil Gershenfeld from the Centre for Bits and Atoms at MIT delivered another well-received keynote[2] that I interpreted as a sort of smart materials science. It …
- The Difficulty … Here we digress as Adams asks why there are moving icons on the screen - Baker explains they're "micons", invented by Hans Peter Brandmo at MIT in 1989 …