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why you just can't black box an a.i.

AI enthusiasts love to write about machines as black boxes with inputs and outputs because they don't know how they would actually be built.
why you just can't black box an a.i.

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technophobia is alive, well, and still wrong

Ted Kaczynski's technophobic manifesto lives on and its ideas found an appreciative audience.
technophobia is alive, well, and still wrong

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censoring the web one keyword at a time

Governments censoring, filtering, and manipulating the internet, so hot right now.
censoring the web one keyword at a time

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and now, here's electrogonorrhea, the noisy killer

Would human-robot relationships really take off when machines are smart enough?
and now, here's electrogonorrhea, the noisy killer

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can crowdsourcing create the jobs of tomorrow?

The jobs tech execs are thinking would be gained through monetized crowdsourcing don't seem like the kind of sustainable jobs we'll need in the future.
can crowdsourcing create the jobs of tomorrow?

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measuring our brains with the wrong ruler

North Korea's computer-based insult towards South Korea's head of state was supposed to be meaningless but offensive nonsense. Too bad pop sci writers took the bait and tried to explain it anyway.
measuring our brains with the wrong ruler

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how not to hire yourself a programmer

Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror shows us just how crazy the hiring process can be today by laying out his dream version of it.
how not to hire yourself a programmer

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welcome to the very socially awkward future?

We might not be quite ready for the kind of augmented reality that Google has in mind for us..
welcome to the very socially awkward future?

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why we won't build a dyson sphere soon

No, a Dyson sphere around our sun isn't a plausible project for the next few thousand years. And maybe not even then.
why we won't build a dyson sphere soon

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how to make random machines do your bidding

How do you connect multiple robots into a single hive mind? Yours truly has been trying to come up with a way to do exactly that.
how to make random machines do your bidding

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inside the mind of a very angry crank

Pseudoscience and fact-free manifestos, now with anger management issues...
inside the mind of a very angry crank

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new name, new accent, same old singularity…

A Singularity by any other name is still just a utopian cold reading of where technology is headed.
new name, new accent, same old singularity…

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how would the nsa surf a tsunami of data?

The NSA wants to scan the internet in real time and store whatever it can catch for later. But are they ready for the challenge that poses?
how would the nsa surf a tsunami of data?

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it's tough being an open source messiah

Like all communities, open source programming has its fair share of drama and emotional flareups over prominent tools and apps.
it's tough being an open source messiah

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are neutrino beams the wi-fi of the future?

Can we improve the throughput of a wi-fi signal with neutrinos instead of radio signals? A team of researchers thinks so.
are neutrino beams the wi-fi of the future?

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