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Giants behaving badly: Google, Facebook and Amazon show us the downside of monopolies and black-box algorithmsgigaom.com
Google, Facebook and Amazon have shown us again this week why the combination of a quasi-monopoly, vested interests and an inscrutable algorithm can be a dangerous thing for internet users, since it allows them to influence what we see, know and buy -
First Recorded Usage of "Hacker" - Gustavo Duarteduartes.org
Here’s the first known recorded usage of the word “hacker” in the tech sense, published in 1963 in MIT’s The Tech newspaper: … -
Legion Meter - Charge your smartphone 92% fasterkickstarter.com
A USB multimeter with integrated OLED display designed to accelerate your smartphone or tablet's charge speed up to 92% faster. -
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Final Word on U.S. Law Isn’t: Supreme Court Keeps Editingnytimes.com
The Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions years after they were issued, a secretive process that has led judges, lawyers and scholars astray. - millcomputing.com
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Meet the algorithm that can learn "everything about anything"gigaom.com
Researchers from Allen Institute for AI have built a computer system capable of teaching itself many facets of broad concepts by scouring and analyzing search engines using natural language processing and computer vision techniques. -
What do the Piketty data problems really mean?marginalrevolution.com
In some ways the new FT criticisms may not matter much, although I think not in a way which is reassuring for Piketty. There were already several major problems with Piketty’s analysis and also empirics, including what Alex has called […] -
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Don’t Believe Anyone Who Tells You Learning To Code Is Easy | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
One of the most dangerous things I’ve seen happen to people who are just starting to code is being told that it’s easy. -
The Perfect Crime by Brian C. Kalt :: SSRNpapers.ssrn.com
This article argues that there is a 50-square-mile swath of Idaho in which one can commit felonies with impunity. This is because of the intersection of a poorl - krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
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Solar Roadwaysindiegogo.com
Solar panels that you can drive, park, and walk on. They melt snow and... cut greenhouse gases by 75-percent?!!! -
Using Genetic Algorithms to Break Things - Words, In Some Orderwestleyargentum.github.io
Few topics have the power to capture the imaginations of computer science undergrads like machine learning. And for many of us, genetic algorithms in … -
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A wireless network for gadgets set to arrive in San Franciscocomputerworld.com
The San Francisco Bay Area and south to San Jose will soon have what may be the nation's first dedicated Internet of Things network. It may change the way you think about the future of the IoT.