Monthly Archives: September 2008
Know more about thy voter than she does
Swiss weekly Sonntagszeitung’s “Multimedia” section delivers almost every weekend some insights that catch my attention. This week I stumbled upon the term microtargeting in the US presidential race. Microtargeting are datamining techniques that are used by democrats and republicans to … Continue reading
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When Artificial Intelligence Plays Havoc
How to make United Airlines bankrupt and burn 75 percent of United Airlines stock value without any human interactions involved? 1. An algorithm at Sun Sentinel puts an archived article on the UAL bankruptcy filing in 2002 to the most … Continue reading
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No Privacy at Your Workplace?
[UPDATE: 9/23/2008/]: There are some corrections to this post in the comments by someone at oDesk concerning the privacy issues. I am too lazy to check. oDesk ‘s software allows employers to hire freelancers from a pool of thousands of … Continue reading
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How Magicians Use Cognitive Science
Just a link. In today’s issue of Swiss weekly “Sonntagszeitung” there is a piece “Magie im Kopf” on the cognitive science behind legerdemains. How magicians make use of our brain’s wrong predictions to trick us. Because I am reading OnIntelligece … Continue reading
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Two Notions OnIntelligence
Hawkins, Jeff (2004). On Intelligence. How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines. I am currently reading “On Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins, the inventor of the Palm Pilot who now tries to … Continue reading
The Economic Value of Personal Data
Why did people stop to value their privacy? A lot of internet users seem to be ok with giving away their personal data to third parties like Google or Facebook or everyone who’s interested. What are the economic reasons behind … Continue reading
