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by jasonhong 4y ago
Somewhat related to the original post, our research team at Carnegie Mellon University has been investigating how well developers can fill out these kinds of privacy nutrition labels. This paper looks at iOS developers. We found that there
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by jasonhong 4y ago
While I love 2x2 matrices, there are two incredibly important things missing. The first is the career of the PhD students you (as the faculty) are mentoring and supervising. Sure, you might do fun things, but if it ends up not helping their
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by jasonhong 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect The Matthew effect of accumulated advantage, Matthew principle, or Matthew effect for short, is sometimes summarized by the adage "the rich get richer and the poor get
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by jasonhong 4y ago
Funny coincidence, our (Carnegie Mellon's) IT department recently re-encoded lectures by John Reynolds on Separation Logic, you can view the entire course here: https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Ses
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by jasonhong 4y ago
Economist Robert Solow famously said in 1987 that the computer age was everywhere except for productivity statistics. Wikipedia has a pretty good article about this Productivity Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr
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by jasonhong 4y ago
I've studied HCI and Engelbart's work for quite a long time, and I'm not sure I would fully agree that things would have been better had Engelbart continued working on NLS, or if NLS had won out. One simple example is with co
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by jasonhong 4y ago
Consider taking a more Bayesian view of the world, especially with scientific papers. I informally tell the students I work with to look for a constellation of papers that offer supporting evidence from multiple perspectives.
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by jasonhong 5y ago
I'd recommend two things. The first is Brad Myers' Software Structures for User Interfaces course at Carnegie Mellon University, which focuses on the guts of how graphical user interfaces work. https://www.cs.cmu.edu&#x
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by jasonhong 5y ago
It seems that a lot of historians strongly disagree with Jared Diamond's methods and thesis in Guns, Germs, and Steel. See here for /r/AskHistorians FAQ about him: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians&#
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by jasonhong 5y ago
Seconding IEEE Spectrum, it covers a broad number of fun technical topics. Off the top of my head, some articles over the past year included supersonic transportation, satellite transmissions, crowdfunded space travel, COVID detection mecha
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by jasonhong 5y ago
Yes, Tufte's most popular book, The Display of Quantitative Information, is quite good, though he pushes minimalism far too much. Note that Tufte also makes a lot of assertions without evidence to back it up. His philosophy on design i
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by jasonhong 5y ago
Don Norman has a rather good example in his book The Design of Everyday Things. He presents a two player game. Each player alternately chooses a number from 1 to 9. Each number can only be chosen at most once. The first player to pick three
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by jasonhong 5y ago
Yes, CHI is quite broad as a field. It started out primarily as computer scientists and psychologists, grew to include design, and has since then expanded to include elements of anthropology, art, material sciences, ICT4D (tech for developi
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by jasonhong 5y ago
You will be very interested in my colleague Brad Myers' work on Natural Programming. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/ In particular, one of his PhD students John Pane did a number of studies looking at how people
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by jasonhong 5y ago
This is a really good question, one that we've discussed amongst at our university (a lot of researchers at Carnegie Mellon). To be useful, ML systems have to have some kind of bias. However, the distinction here is that some of these
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by jasonhong 5y ago
> I wonder when we'll see the last GUIs, and everything will be speech-based The answer is never. The reason is that different kinds of UIs are effective for different kinds of tasks. I can't remember who I heard this from, but
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by jasonhong 6y ago
> If a study doesn’t replicate then it’s almost certainly nonsense. For some fields, especially natural sciences, this statement makes sense. However, for sciences of the artificial (to use Herb Simon's term) I would respectfully di
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by jasonhong 6y ago
This leads to another problem that we (the science community) are already facing: how should we allocate funds between older and more established researchers vs new researchers? Or, who will be the next Einsteins? If you only fund the more
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by jasonhong 6y ago
I find it interesting how, in the other current thread about an antitrust suit against Google ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25448718 ) that people there are criticizing Google's lack of ethics, and in this thre
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by jasonhong 6y ago
Helen Nissenbaum (now at Cornell Tech) wrote a famous paper framing privacy as Contextual Integrity, which has been highly influential for researchers on computer privacy as well as public policy makers. The Wikipedia entry on Contextual In
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by jasonhong 6y ago
My current office at CMU is actually Randy's last office before he passed away. He was really fun in faculty meetings, everything you see in the video was exactly what he was like in real life. When I was in grad school, I heard from s
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by jasonhong 6y ago
The book shows for me as $35 on Amazon (paperback) and $150 for hardback, so I'd suggest getting the Kindle or paperback version. I've used parts of the book in a class I taught on the Social Web, and yes, I did find it really use
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by jasonhong 6y ago
Here is a very good book that summarizes a lot of the scientific research about creating and fostering online communities. Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design Here are the chapters: * Encouraging Contrib
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by jasonhong 6y ago
My colleagues and I recently published a paper at CHI 2020 that was inspired in large part by this problem of hidden cameras in AirBnBs. Here is a link to ACM Digital Library ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145&#x2
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by jasonhong 6y ago
I don't have full answers for all of your questions, but my colleagues doing Learning Science often mention this two-sigma improvement, and are working on computer-based cognitive tutors that can adapt and model what a student is learn
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by jasonhong 6y ago
Famed mathematician William Thurston has a good response here (from On Proof and Progress in Mathematics https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/9404236.pdf ): "The rapid advance of computers has helped dramatize this poin
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by jasonhong 6y ago
To followup, I believe there's a subtle problem with funding in general, which is that increasing the funding available means that more research positions will be created, which means that eventually grant proposals go back to the same
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by jasonhong 6y ago
This will only address part of your question, about API design. I'd highly recommend Josh Bloch's writings. Josh is perhaps best known for the book Effective Java and the Java Collections library. Here is a paper he wrote about go
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by jasonhong 6y ago
I'm a faculty in CMU's School of Computer Science, and wanted to share a few quick things. Please note that these are my solely my personal opinions. First, as you note, CMU is incredibly competitive. Here are some stats for stude
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by jasonhong 7y ago
Here's a brief summary of why this article and why Vannevar Bush was so impactful. (Please note that this is all from memory, so while some of the specifics might be off, the general thrust is right) Vannevar Bush helped organize the A

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