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Facebook's false-news flagging: good intentions, bad UX(quod.us)
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New ‘E-Dermis’ Brings Sense of Touch, Pain to Prosthetic Hands(releases.jhu.edu)
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Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish(sciencemag.org)
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We overestimate our ability to spot fake news(quod.us)
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Electron sandwich doubles thermoelectric performance(eurekalert.org)
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by newman8r 8y ago
Yeah it's probably not that big of a deal, ideally you'd be able to choose to have it turned off when booking the room.
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China’s rise as a new AI superpower(ethz.ch)
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by newman8r 8y ago
Personally I wouldn't want to stay in a room with this device, but it seems like that's the direction things are going in.
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Amazon launches an alexa system for hotels(techcrunch.com)
2 points by newman8r 8y ago|3 comments
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by newman8r 8y ago
Do you know of a better term to describe a cognitive bias where people are quantitatively overestimating their ability? If so I'll gladly use it in the future.
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IBM pits computer against human debaters(sfgate.com)
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Dunning-Kruger on a massive scale: we're bad at recognizing misinformation(quod.us)
1 points by newman8r 8y ago|2 comments
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by newman8r 8y ago
Here's the original source that the article cites (should have linked it instead) http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/18/the-inspiration-for-hype...
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Apple's HyperCard was inspired by an acid trip(boingboing.net)
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Checking China's pollution by satellite(news.mit.edu)
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Everything big data claims to know about you could be wrong(news.berkeley.edu)
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Show HN: Crowdsourced misinformation tagging(quod.us)
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People overestimate their ability to recognize fake news(quod.us)
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Volvo builds a self-docking yacht(engadget.com)
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Misleading headlines can turn a quadcopter into a flying car(quod.us)
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by newman8r 8y ago
you nailed the color test but failed the reading comprehension test
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by newman8r 8y ago
I've seen NLU and NLG described as areas within NLP. I think generating headlines from an article would use a bit of both. A pure NLG task would be more like creating sentences to describe the weather based on weather data, or medical
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by newman8r 8y ago
Generating punny headlines from input text might be difficult, but maybe not. I'm not sure if anyone's specifically attempted that, most of the efforts I've seen have more to do with summarization. A lot of puns are pretty fo
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by newman8r 8y ago
I think with advances in computational humor it might be possible to come up with some pretty funny headlines. Could be a fun weekend project with NLTK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_humor
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Big data targets drug resistance(news.harvard.edu)
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NLP-generated summaries could replace traditional headlines(quod.us)
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The problem with Facebook's fake-news flagging system(quod.us)
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The Media has a Headline Problem(quod.us)
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Pebble smartwatches could get a new lease on life with Rebble.io(engadget.com)
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by newman8r 8y ago
A few years ago I converted one of my MBPs to debian and it was an amazing experience - I was a bit burned out, but switching to linux revitalized my interest in computing. I learned a ton about the kernel, really stepped up my knowledge in

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