Brain Drain: How Your Smartphone Takes a Toll on Your Thinking | Journal of the Association for Consumer Research: Vol 2, No 2
Chance are high that your read these lines on a smartphone . Maybe your were even alerted by a push notification.
Category: Science
The Geometry of Thought | Edge.org
Barabara Tversky discusses what she calls geometry of thought in this very intersting EDGE cast : Slowly, the significance of spatial thinking is being…
Perception As Controlled Hallucination | Edge.org
An EDGE conversation with Andy Clark on perception and the role of predictive processing. The concept of predictive processing describes the brain as pediction machine gathering statistical information to adapt its model of the world. Sources: https://www.edge.org/conversation/andy_clark-perception-as-controlled-hallucination https://www.mindcoolness.com/blog/bayesian-brain-predictive-processing/
The Challenge of Crafting Intelligible Intelligence | June 2019 | Communications of the ACM
Modern AI approaches often work like black boxes: nobody really knows why things work the way they work.
Hidden Heroines of Chaos: Ellen Fetter and Margaret Hamilton | Quanta Magazine
The untold story of two women who played an essential part in developing chaos theory [1]. While a lot has changed since 1960ies still many programmers…
Towards a Proxemics Driven Software Architecture
We’ve build software for decades now. Starting with running software on remote mainframes and providing access via (dumb) terminals we moved toward…
Smart Environments = Edge Computing + Bots + AI
The concept of smart environments can regarded as byproduct of pervasive computing with a strong focus on the interaction of humans and technology.