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Can Transaction Costs Explain Scale-Free Networks Born by Preferential Attachment?
Centralization leads to more efficient communication and control, which leads to lower transaction costs, which increases the useful work each node can spend on...
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AI's Jurassic Park Moment
New systems like chatGPT are enormously entertaining, and even mind-boggling, but also unreliable, and potentially dangerous.
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Will Free Open Access Publication Become a Mass Phenomenon?
In this blog post, I would like to go over the value of different publication platforms from the point of view of an ordinary scientific researcher.
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Logical Beats Sequential
Often, "we do this and then we do that" is just a lazy way of stating "to do that, we must have achieved this."
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What Does Meta AI's Diplomacy-Winning Cicero Mean for AI?
Hint: It's not all about scaling.
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Data Loss Prevention vs. Data-Centric Audit and Protection: What Is the Difference?
A look at the typical tasks solved by DCAP systems, and how they differ from those solved by DLP systems.
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Which Were the Most Influential Early Computers?
Considering early machines that had the greatest influence on the development of program-controlled computers.
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A History of One Brute-Force Attack
A classic brute-force attack boils down to guessing credentials. In my scenario, though, the perpetrators acted somewhat differently.
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Mitigating the Base-Rate Neglect Cognitive Bias in Data Science Education
How can machine learning educators help learners cope with the base rate neglect cognitive bias?
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On the Ethics of Writing With AIs
AI-generated text, even if accepted from an ethical standpoint, raises questions about the provenance of the generated text.
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AI as (an Ersatz) Natural Science?
The emergence of large learned models is changing the nature of artificial intelligence research in fundamental ways.
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Enterprise Metrics and Optimization
Metrics are critical; without them, you are flying blind. But be careful what you try to optimize, because you might just get it.
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InnovateFPGA: Wrong Strategy Drives One of the Best FPGA Development Contests into Crisis
In my opinion, the main problem of the InnovateFPGA contest is the lack of a permanent team to lead.
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5 Often Overlooked Coding Mistakes New Web Developers Need to Avoid
Avoiding these common, easily preventable blunders will help you maximize success in your career journey.
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Biases in Author Recognition
When reading papers, we make simplifications and have assumptions about author roles and relative contributions.
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How Scripting Misses the Mark
Scripting languages promise easy automation but prove difficult to learn. Let's stop focusing on simplified syntax and instead focus on understandability and learnability...
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Students Speak to Ethical Issues
What are the concerns of students after study of computer ethics?
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