Four short links: 8 March 2017
Geriatric Javascript, AI Discrimination, Weaponizing AI, and Math for CS
- Outdated Javascript Libraries on the Web (Paper a Day) — 36.7% of jQuery includes, 40.1% of Angular, and an astonishing 86.6% of Handlebars includes use a vulnerable version. […] the root causes are systemic in the JavaScript ecosystem.
- Yuval Harari Interview — Q: As a gay man, which discrimination do you prefer? A: There would really have to be some evil algorithm to do worse than human beings.
- Cooperation vs. Aggression (Mike Loukides) — Machines learn what we teach them. If you don’t want AI agents to shoot, don’t give them guns.
- Mathematics for Computer Science (PDF) — MIT coursebook, CC-BY-SA licensed.