Monthly Archives: September 2018

Sep 22

For your technothriller needs.

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For your technothriller needs.

Originally shared by HACKADAY

Here`s a DIY sensor which can send secret messages in plain sight using gestures such as tap, slide, twist, and stretch.

Serpentine is a gesture sensor that’s the equivalent of a membrane potentiometer, flex and stretch sensor, and more.  It’s self-powering and can be used in wearable hacks such as the necklace shown in the banner image though we’re thinking more along the…

http://hackaday.com/2018/09/22/there-are-multiple-ways-to-gesture-with-this-serpentine-sensor/

Sep 21

Origami opens up smart options for architecture on the Moon and Mars – Origami and high-performance textiles are…

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Originally shared by Phys.org

Origami opens up smart options for architecture on the Moon and Mars – Origami and high-performance textiles are transforming architecture plans for smart human habitats and research stations on the Moon and Mars. Initial field tests of the MoonMars project’s origami prototype will be presented at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2018 in Berlin by Dr. Anna Sitnikova.

http://ow.ly/HhOB50j6s9L

Sep 21

Via Raja Mitra.

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Via Raja Mitra.

I can imagine a story in which all the human characters work with AIs. One of them parents AIs to socialise them; one plays D&D with them to teach them about human interaction and storytelling; and one watches them for signs of bias and corrects it.

Originally shared by Eli Fennell

New IBM Tool Aims To Detect A.I. Bias

For all the promise of Artificial Intelligence, it also carries a huge risk: their algorithms can develop biases, and these biases can frequently be invisible to its human creators and operators, and quite dangerous as well.

IBM wants to help solve this with their new Fairness 360 Kit, a new project to detect biases in A.I. and make humans aware of them. Open source and designed to work with many commonly used frameworks for building learning algorithms, Fairness Kit 360 aims to provide Real Time insights, via a visual dashboard, into how learning algorithms are making their decisions.

This represents another valuable approach in solving the A.I. “Black Box Problem”, along with teaching A.I.’s to be better at showing their work (http://bit.ly/2xtugL9), and utilizing more transparent learning systems (http://bit.ly/2NjMBo7).

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45561955

Sep 21

To read later.

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To read later.

Originally shared by Irina T.

”Alan Turing’s crucial unscrambling of German messages in the Second World War was a tour de force of codebreaking. From 1940 onwards, Turing and his team engineered hundreds of electronic machines, dubbed bombes, which decrypted the thousands of missives sent by enemy commanders each day to guide their soldiers. This deluge of knowledge shortened the war. Bletchley Park, UK — the secret centre where it all happened — rightly gained its place in history. But as with all breakthroughs, many more people laid the foundations.”

#historyofsciencebooks

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06149-y
Sep 20

I’m fortunate enough to have a friend who’s a senior technologist in the fintech sector, and has enthused to me at…

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I’m fortunate enough to have a friend who’s a senior technologist in the fintech sector, and has enthused to me at length about it – giving me plenty of story ideas.

Financial technology might seem like an unpromising starting point for a story, but I’ve just written a technothriller involving an attack on a (partly magic-based) banking technology that’s an important front in an economic war.

How you do your banking can reinforce inequality, or disrupt it.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

The Biggest Tech-Driven Changes Happening in Finance and Banking https://suhub.co/2NVu9la

Sep 20

An interesting sidelight to that HuffPo article on obesity that was going round the other day.

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An interesting sidelight to that HuffPo article on obesity that was going round the other day. If an AI can predict obesity rates based on satellite imagery of the physical layout of neighbourhoods, that’s pretty good evidence that at least some of the problem is based on environmental factors rather than individual ones (which we knew, but it makes it clearer).

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

This AI Predicts Obesity Prevalence—All the Way from Space https://suhub.co/2D7P4NJ