The various facets of artificial intelligence, history of telecommunication, how political views are affected by internet access, and how to spot BS effectively. Lyle, Brian, and Miles discuss all this and more in the week’s news.
During the 1/18/2017 Episode we talked about a class at The University of Washington: "Calling Bull
T-Mobile USA was the biggest winner in an auction that shifted
This is the first cellphone. It went on sale 30 years ago today for $4,000
In a statement [PDF], Pai called the FCC’s plan “ill-conceived” and said that tabling it permanently would be a “victory for Americans across the country.”
A Wisconsin congressman
We combine nine previously proposed measures to construct an index of political polarization among US adults. We find that the growth in polarization in recent years is largest for the demographic groups least likely to use the internet and social media. For example, our overall index and eight of the nine individual measures show greater increases for those older than 75 than for those aged 18
It will never be said that the Trump presidency began with a presumption of openness. His pre-election refusal to release his tax returns set a bit of precedent in that regard. The immediate post-election muffling of government agency social media accounts made the administration’s opacity goals
While the answers won
The ad, released Wednesday, features an actor dressed as a Burger King employee, who says,
We conclude that hidden Markov models allow near-perfect recovery of text redacted by mosaicing or blurring for many common fonts and parameter settings, and that mosaicing and blurring are not effective choices for textual document redaction
The researchers instead went about collecting images of the 20 volunteers the way any Google stalker might
To a human, a fooling image might look like a random tie-dye pattern or a burst of TV static, but show it to an AI image classifier and it
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