https://www.instapaper.com/liked http://www.wired.com/2014/11/algorithms-great-can-also-ruin-lives/ http://www.wired.com/2014/11/algorithms-great-can-also-ruin-lives/ On April 5, 2011, 41-year-old John Gass received a letter from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. The letter informed Gass that his driver’s license… Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:51:15 GMT http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/facebook-ai-director-yann-lecun-on-deep-learning http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/facebook-ai-director-yann-lecun-on-deep-learning Photo-illustration: Randi Klett Deep Learning expert Yann LeCun leads Facebook's AI research lab. Artificial intelligence has gone through some dismal periods,… Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:56:52 GMT http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-come http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-come “So much of our manufactured environment testifies to carelessness,” Ive says. Things are “developed to be different, not better.” Credit Photograph by Pari… Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:19:25 GMT https://medium.com/@pankaj/you-cant-stop-real-time-9e8d33644e7b https://medium.com/@pankaj/you-cant-stop-real-time-9e8d33644e7b Consumer products are often about processing and delivery of information, services or goods. The biggest “aha” for me in my last couple of years at Twitter was… Sat, 04 Oct 2014 02:48:42 GMT http://www.dbms2.com/2012/04/05/human-real-time/ http://www.dbms2.com/2012/04/05/human-real-time/ April 5, 2012 Human real-time I first became an analyst in 1981. And so I was around for the early days of the movement from batch to interactive computing, as… Sun, 05 Oct 2014 17:28:21 GMT http://www.slideshare.net/jtleek/10-things-statistics-taught-us-about-big-data http://www.slideshare.net/jtleek/10-things-statistics-taught-us-about-big-data 10 things statistics taught us about big data Upcoming SlideShare Loading in … 5 × 1 1 of 64 Email Email sent successfully! Embed Size (px) Start on Show… Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:21:47 GMT http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/the-elon-musk-interview-on-mars/ http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/the-elon-musk-interview-on-mars/ ‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’ We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX… Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:32:01 GMT http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/06/23/physicists-should-stop-saying-silly-things-about-philosophy/ http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/06/23/physicists-should-stop-saying-silly-things-about-philosophy/ The last few years have seen a number of prominent scientists step up to microphones and belittle the value of philosophy. Stephen Hawking , Lawrence Krauss ,… Sun, 06 Jul 2014 00:16:55 GMT http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore Disruption is a theory of change founded on panic, anxiety, and shaky evidence. Credit Illustration by Brian Stauffer In the last years of the… Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:25:45 GMT http://muslimreverie.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/mocking-foreign-accents-and-the-privilege-of-sounding-white/ http://muslimreverie.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/mocking-foreign-accents-and-the-privilege-of-sounding-white/ I’ve been giving this topic a lot of thought for a while, not only because of the observations I’ve made from white and people of color friends and allies, but… Fri, 18 Apr 2014 23:30:05 GMT