data visualizations Amazing interactive globe shows the very different location of your city 750 million years ago David Pescovitz
anticloud "Edge AI": encapsulating machine learning classifiers in lightweight, energy-efficient, airgapped chips Cory Doctorow
parallelization The bubbles in VR, cryptocurrency and machine learning are all part of the parallel computing bubble Cory Doctorow
goodhart curse Wireheading: when machine learning systems jolt their reward centers by cheating Cory Doctorow
flying computers Trying to land on some runways causes the Boeing 737's control screens to go black Cory Doctorow
dated predictions AI, machine learning, and other frothy tech subjects remained overhyped in 2019 Cory Doctorow
belt and road AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow
rit Librecorps: an organization that connects student free/open source software developers with humanitarian NGOs Cory Doctorow
reward hacking Model stealing, rewarding hacking and poisoning attacks: a taxonomy of machine learning's failure modes Cory Doctorow
deep reinforcement Tiny alterations in training data can introduce "backdoors" into machine learning models Cory Doctorow
geneva Genetic Evasion: using genetic algorithms to beat state-level internet censorship Cory Doctorow
ST33 TPM Tpmfail: a timing attack that can extract keys from secure computing chips in 4-20 minutes Cory Doctorow
harder than it looks Behind the scenes, "plain" text editing is unbelievably complex and weird Cory Doctorow
licenses The Hippocratic License: A new software license that prohibits uses that contravene the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Cory Doctorow
cat and mouse games Researchers think that adversarial examples could help us maintain privacy from machine learning systems Cory Doctorow
