Hey, tech enthusiasts! Have you ever pondered the idea that our reality might not be as "real" as we think? A fascinating article by Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, dives deep into this intriguing concept, suggesting that we might be living in a computer-generated universe, also know in tech circles as simulation. Imagine...
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Noam Chomsky turns 95: the social justice advocate paved the way for AI. Does it keep him up at night?
Noam Chomsky, the revered and reviled genius once famously described as “the most important intellectual alive”, turned 95 on December 6th. He is a monumental figure in modern linguistics, and only a slightly lesser deity in psychology, philosophy and political activism. His work establishing cognitive science as a discipline is so fundamental to the rise...
How We Built a Meta Pixel Inspector
The first large-scale, crowdsourced study that monitors how Meta tracks people across the internet By: Surya Mattu, Angie Waller, Simon Fondrie-Teitler, and Micha Gorelick Introduction Have you ever shopped for a product online only to see the item appear ad nauseam in your Facebook or Instagram feeds? This is often the result of the Meta...
5 Data Processing Challenges Resolved for Data Scientists
Data processing is an essential step in analyzing large volumes of data and get the right insights to make key business decisions. Not only are data scientists expected to find ways to wade through the vast volume of data that businesses are receiving every day, but they also have to put it together in ways...
Edge Computing + Serverless Computing = Ephemeral Computing
What is Edge Computing? The concept of Edge Computing defines it as a networked computing component that resides at the periphery of the network. As such it functions as an interface between the network and the physical world. The “edge” can be composed of devices like cameras, sensors or actuators. Edge Computing is based on...
The Power of Experiments
Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you’ve probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments also known as randomized controlled trials designed to test the impact of different online experiences. Once an esoteric tool for academic research, the randomized controlled trial...
Why is A/B testing important?
A/B testing is essential to identify strengths and weaknesses of your app or service to improve it. A/B testing is a variable-experimentation technique to compare two versions of the same thing to see which one performs better. For example, you can test two different landing pages, two different subject lines, or two different offers. The...
There are fundamental Problems how we train AI
The current machine learning training and testing process is not rigorous enough to ensure that the models being trained will work in the real world. During the training process many different models can be produced that all perform equally well when tested in lab settings and differ only in small, arbitrary ways. The differences stem...
Here’s why Artificial Intelligence is so power-hungry
Artificial intelligence is getting more expensive to develop, and the cost is growing faster than the energy efficiency of the models. This is because they are trained many times with different structures, and the best one is selected. For example a model called Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) used 3.3 billion words from English books...
LAL – Little Activity Language
lal is a lightweight Service composition and execution language that is tailored towards the requirements of mobile infrastructures. lal has a considerable small set of abstractions that are easy to understand for people – in comparison with workflow languages like BPEL or YAWL. The latter are used to specify each step that is necessary towards...