As seen today at a Berlin bus stop: Google & Facebook side-by-side advertising their privacy.
As seen today at a Berlin bus stop: Google & Facebook side-by-side advertising their privacy.
"Successful interaction design requires a shift from seeing the machinery to seeing the lives of the people using it"
- Terry Winograd (The Design of Interaction, 1997)
Evolutionary Space Invaders: "shoot aliens as a genetic algorithm modifies them": https://github.com/victorqribeiro/invaderz Demo: https://victorribeiro.com/invaderz #ML
"Cybernetics & the design of the user experience of AI systems": http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/november-december-2018/cybernetics-and-the-design-of-the-user-experience-of-ai-systems #ML #HCI
"Reconstruction of visual images from human brain activity measured by fMRI". Created using the techniques from the paper "End-to-end deep image reconstruction from human brain activity": https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/02/27/272518
The "Situationist International" social/art movement (1957-1972) was Subversive, Political & highly Semantical. Made me think about current so called "A.I Art", which is mostly void of those things - focused on PixelPorn. Why?
Guy Debord in 1967 on Machine Learning:
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2YeJpkrTOQ
The importance of stupidity in scientific research:
http://jcs.biologists.org/content/121/11/1771 #Science #Culture #Creativity
"Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant. The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries"
"DNA is a fractal antenna in electromagnetic fields": http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21457072 by Martin Blank & Reba Goodman.
The wide frequency range of interaction with EMF is the functional characteristic of a fractal antenna, and DNA appears to possess the two structural characteristics of fractal antennas, electronic conduction and self symmetry. These properties contribute to greater reactivity of DNA with EMF in the environment, and the DNA damage could account for increases in cancer epidemiology, as well as variations in the rate of chemical evolution in early geologic history.
Blank's book "Overpowered - What Science Tells Us About the Dangers of Cell Phones & Other WiFi-Age Devices" is interesting: https://www.sevenstories.com/books/3399-overpowered
Statement by Elizabeth Kelley, Executive Director of Electromagnetic Safety Alliance:
https://emsafetyalliance.org/index.php/emf-health-safety
Electromagnetic fields (EMF) and Electromagnetic Radiation pose serious health threats to man and nature, and endangers planetary health. Artificial human-made electromagnetic fields were first introduced on planet Earth in the mid 19th Century when man started harnessing energy for electricity and wireless applications. All living organisms have evolved in natural background radiation.
#Magic and the Machine - essay by David Abram on #Technology and Animism in an age of ecological wipeout: https://emergencemagazine.org/story/magic-and-the-machine/
"Report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine says that researchers often make 'inappropriate requests' for data manipulation or fraud to statisticians": http://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2706170/researcher-requests-inappropriate-analysis-reporting-u-s-survey-consulting-biostatisticians
"1 In 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked To Commit Scientific Fraud": https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/10/30/1-4-statisticians-say-they-were-asked-commit-scientific-fraud-13554 #Politics
“Digital transformation” is the new “structural adjustment”, "Industry 4.0" is the new neo-liberalism. "Cult of Singularity" is the new fascism. "Predictive Policing" is the new Eugenics. "History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes"
"how to become filthy rich fast, by exploiting artificially intelligent humans" #ML
"Transduction of the Geomagnetic Field as Evidenced from Alpha-band Activity in the Human Brain": https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/10/20/448449.full.pdf Supported by DARPA's "RadioBio" program ( https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-02-07) which is finally letting the "electromagnetism in biological systems" cat out of the bag. #NeuroScience
Foundation In Exponentials: Energy - talk by Ramez Naam:
Why is it that nurses (help save lives) and teachers (educate our next generations) earn far less money than software developers (some working on important things, but many on societally irrelevant stuff) or finance people (value of work debatable) ?
"In Hungary, Latvia, & Greece, travelers will be given an automated lie-detection test—by an animated AI border agent. The system, called iBorderCtrl": https://gizmodo.com/an-ai-lie-detector-is-going-to-start-questioning-travel-1830126881 #ML #Politics
A case of AI hype gone horribly wrong. Using Fauxtomation to justify racist refugee policies.