As with the huge hotel and condo complex being constructed adjacent to the building where my office is located, tools for building new systems often require temporary scaffolding to reach the point where the intended system can support itself.
Vinton G. Cerf
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The QR code, a convenient mechanism for delivering digital information to a reader, does not come with any human-readable way to ascertain safety. You have no way to tell whether it is potentially malicious.
I am certainly no philosopher, but as I observe the apparent erosion of agreement on factual evidence in our society. Somewhere along the line, critical thinking must be given the stature it deserves.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
The more I think about the potential brittleness of neural networks and recognition or decision making, the more I wonder how we will be able to tell when a neural network choice or decision is incorrect.
Inventing an imaginary company helped me imagine how powerful it can be to have data available that permits fact-based analysis of business performance, projections for future business operations, and understanding of the marketplace the business serves.
The Internet is equally available for beneficial and harmful purposes as is often the case with infrastructure open to public use. How can we preserve its beneficial uses and diminish unwanted harmful abuse?
How Do I Rely on Thee, Smartphone?
The smartphone has become the Swiss Army knife of computing and communication. However, there are some downsides to this cornucopia of utility wrapped up in a pocket-sized device.
Computing is an endless frontier in which we have an unending supply of new problems to confront in the search for new solutions.
Frode Hegland has developed three remarkable tools for text generation, viewing, and referencing that illustrate the power of applying computing to text.
Can we discover language in the vocalizations and/or gestures of non-human species? Within that question lies another: whether rich machine learning methods can demonstrate that interspecies communication is possible.
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