Ideas

What's on our radar.

Face recognition.

Defensive computing

The tools of defensive computing, whether they involve mascara and face paint or random autonomous web browsing, belong to the harsh reality we've built.

Jupyter Digest.

Jupyter Digest: 30 May 2017

Script generation from RNNs, Tensorflow book companion notebooks, transportation insights from notebooks, machine learning notebooks.

"Science & Invention," by John Augustus Walker, 1935; photographed by Carol M. Highsmith.
AI

Using AI to create new jobs

Tim O’Reilly delves into past technological transitions, speculates on the possibilities of AI, and looks at what's keeping us from making the right choices to govern our creations.

Wire art.

The data subject first?

Aurélie Pols draws a broad philosophical picture of the data ecosystem and then hones in on the right to data portability.

Data exchange.

Another one bytes the dust

Using the music industry as an example, Paul Brook shows how modern information points bring new data that changes the way an organization will make decisions.

Painting on wall of girl blowing question marks.

Ask more questions

Saron Yitbarek explores examples of technical projects in education, health, and grassroots political activism that moved too fast.

Lausanne Ouchy Skulptur.

Why choose open infrastructure?

Source code management, CI pipelines, and IaaS have open alternatives, but most projects are developed on proprietary infrastructure. Christopher Aedo explains how to make open choices.

Résumé Picasso style visage.

Step 1: Punch a tree

How Evan Booth's adventures in real-world transmogrification have shaped his perspective on open source hardware, manufacturing, and finding potential in the unremarkable.