Tech: Meta’s AI-backed language system taken off line after 3 days
Galactica is an AI system designed to analyze and summarize science papers. Meta says it’s better than a search engine. Not only can it find sources, but it can write…
YouTube’s AI-based video recommendations skew, obviously, to what results in more views
The goal of Youtube, obviously, is to increase the percent of time you spend watching Youtube, and their ads every few minutes: New research published today by Mozilla backs that…
Increases in student loan availability lead to increases in tuition and fees
Increases in student loan availability are a cause of tuition hikes rather than in response to tuition hikes. This effect is also seen in housing (cheap loans made widely available)…
The problems with models versus the real world
The problem with reliance on models and simulations: "Model-land is a hypothetical world in which our simulations are perfect, an attractive fairy-tale state of mind in which optimising a simulation…
“Enabling High-level Application Development for the Internet of Things” (2015)
Patel, P., & Cassou, D. (2015). Enabling high-level application development for the Internet of Things. Journal of Systems and Software, 103, 62-84. Retrieved from: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.05080 File: 1501.05080.pdf Paper proposes a software…