Tag Archives: Mike Reeves-McMillan

Sep 28

I can see my Auckland Allies character Sparx making something like this. Only his would probably be magical as well.

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I can see my Auckland Allies character Sparx making something like this. Only his would probably be magical as well.

Originally shared by HACKADAY

What would it be like to see magnetic fields? Stephin Merritt is great, but you can also do it with an Arduino!!!

If you carry a smartphone around in your pocket, you have a GPS navigation system, a compass, an altimeter, and a very powerful computer at your fingertips. It’s the greatest navigational device ever created. To use this sextant of the modern era you’ve…

http://hackaday.com/2018/09/28/give-yourself-a-sixth-sense-with-an-arduino/

Sep 28

I’ve read this author’s Zero Sum Game, and really disliked the main character.

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I’ve read this author’s Zero Sum Game, and really disliked the main character. I would have disliked her just as much if she was a man, though.

It’s, on the whole, good advice here; I’d just caution that if you make the character unpleasant there will be people who aren’t into that, regardless of gender.

https://www.tor.com/2018/09/25/writing-women-with-sharp-edges/?utm_source=Feedburner:+Frontpage+Partial+RSS+Feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Torcom/Frontpage_Partial+(Tor.com+Frontpage+Partial+-+Blog+and+Stories)&inf_contact_key=3b34c1bf8afd3dd147aeb4c62c7efee1bf7ddf43f74b234d6d5725a16ed267ea
Sep 25

Programmable matter wrapped around non-programmable matter! That’s genius!

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Programmable matter wrapped around non-programmable matter! That’s genius!

(I wrote a novella about programmable matter: http://csidemedia.com/gu. But I never thought of this.)

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

This Robotic Skin Makes Inanimate Objects Move https://suhub.co/2IgSkoP

Sep 24

An idealistic, perhaps naive, but laudable vision of AIs used for the betterment of humanity.

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An idealistic, perhaps naive, but laudable vision of AIs used for the betterment of humanity. The problem I see with it is that making things widely available has historically not led to their use primarily by people with elevated moral consciousness and high ideals; rather the opposite.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

Instilling the Best of Human Values in AI https://suhub.co/2N1ihtc

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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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