Researchers Find a “Fake News Vaccine” for Climate Change Skeptics | Big Think
The spreading of misinformation and doubt has undermined support for climate change. Despite broad consensus from climate scientists that humans are largely responsible for climate change, only 27% of Americans think there is agreement. New research points to a possible way to "vaccinate" against this misinformation.
Today, ten years after the iPhone launched, I have some of the same sense of early constraints and assumptions being abandoned and new models emerging. If
Not if, but when. You and your team have already given up on carrier pigeons, typewriters and probably, fax machines. And the spreadsheet has totally changed not only your accounting, but much of y…
Melody Kramer is one of the smartest, most thoughtful people I know in journalism. She has a new post up at Poynter talking about ways to design the news that take into account that news can be overwhelming. People tak
Book Review: Eichmann In Jerusalem | Slate Star Codex
[Content warning: Holocaust. This is a complicated and emotional subject and I make no claims to know much more than what I read in the book, nor to be 100% certain I am representing Arendt’s…
Susan Sons on maintaining and securing the internet's infrastructure
The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Saving the Network Time Protocol, recruiting and building future open source maintainers, and how speed and security aren’t at odds with each other.
At Curalate, we constantly dream up big ideas for new products and services. Big ideas that require lots of work. Lots of boring, repetitive, simple work that we honestly do not want to do ourselves. In situations like this we turn to the industry standard for getting other people to do work for you, Amazon Mechanical Turk. Amazon’s “Artificial Artificial Intelligence” service connects requesters to people from across the globe (known as “Turkers”) to complete a set of Human Intelligence Tasks or HITs. We’ve used Mechanical Turk in the past to create labeled datasets for use in our machine learning models to tackle various deep learning problems here at Curalate (such as the Emojini 3000 and Intelligent Product Tagging). In the process we have learned a few lessons that would have saved us a lot of time if known beforehand, so here they are to help if you want to get the most out of your valuable Turk time.
Reuters editor-in-chief Steve Adler wrote a message to staff called "Covering Trump the Reuters Way." After noting that "Reuters is a global news organization that reports independently and fairly in more
B.C. tech industry buoyed by Trump immigration order - British Columbia - CBC News
B.C.'s technology sector is poised to take advantage of U.S. President Donald Trump's tough new immigration policy to recruit foreign talent that has previously been more attracted to big American cities.
Concept Of 3P’s For A Strong Information Security Practice
Information loss or data leaks can harm an organization in more ways than one. This is the reason companies spend a lot of money to get the best security for the business data. The 3P's for information security can be useful to create a strong security fr
