Tag Archives: Mike Reeves-McMillan

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

Sep 13

I have the beginnings of a story about “warmware,” androids that can do things like raise children because they’re…

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I have the beginnings of a story about “warmware,” androids that can do things like raise children because they’re emotionally intelligent.

Sounds like there are other New Zealanders thinking about this stuff as well.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

What We Have to Gain From Making Machines More Human https://suhub.co/2oZMRtD

Sep 11

Interesting, if a little wordy.

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Interesting, if a little wordy.

Why do people confuse “adopt” and “adapt”?

Originally shared by Winchell Chung

The politics of space mining – An account of a simulation game

Highlights

•The realization of space exploitation will disrupt world politics.

•The simulation highlighted the political tensions and different interests.

•Inclusive international process is needed to reach fast adaptation.

•Creative mechanisms are needed to allow sharing of new global wealth.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576516311584