I arrived back in #trondheim Thursday night and finished my week by giving a talk on #peopleanalytics at the #nail norwegian ai lab at NTNU.
The title of the talk was “from metrics to mistakes” and I discussed things that can go wrong when using #algorithms in personnel management of traditional organisations. It was a very fitting talk for a Friday the 13th, and I was really happy about the participation and the many questions people had.
#Norsktut #allheimen
At Secret Math Meeting, Researchers Struggle to Outsmart AI
The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs.
I was informally (mis)diagnosed as "probably psychopathic" by my supervisor when I did my Social Psychology postgraduate at the University of Leicester psychiatric teaching hospital back in 1989. Now I realise that I was really diagnosed with adult autism by a psychologist who didn't have the tools to differentiate.
It's interesting because it started me on my path to computerising the psychiatric investigation part of the DSM (well, initially Hare PCL) evaluation for my Master's degree. The psychometric question-and-answer model and demo I came up with had me firmly psychopathic in PCL's diagnostic terms, whereas these days it would be easily diagnosed as autism.
I went on to expand the idea from psychometrics, to behaviour analysis in virtual worlds, which I figured would be a better capture than psychometric questions - Would the person co-operate to attain a goal, would they show altruism, would they be quick to anger - There's a lot you can measure in the virtual world as we know very well now, but didn't in 1991. Sadly, the lack of modern technology and the need to feed myself brought this PhD to an end without a write-up - But it's no wonder I ended up working for OkCupid, I guess :D
The sad thing about that is that although it didn't impact my life at all, other than having an interesting topic to discuss at parties, the PCL is used as a tool by US prisons in their parole calculations. A PCL diagnosis is a heavy weighting against parole, even though Hare himself has said that isn't the way this should be used. I dread to think how many autistic people are stuck in prisons for evermore because of misdiagnosed psychopathy.
The psychopathy test puts a lot more emphasis on masking and social interactions than on kidnapping people and putting them in wells to skin them later, I feel.
I can't be bothered to write a blog post about this, so I will scream into the #Mastodon #Void instead - Except now I have to think of some other #Hashtags which is always the hard part, I get carried away, autism you see!
People keep coming back to this article (originally written in 2015). I've revised and expanded it with a few points that I haven't shared publicly before. The suggestions for identifying low quality content and improving content quality are still relevant today.
#google #quality #search #algorithms #eeat #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #panda
"How The Panda Algorithm Might Evaluate Your Site"
Years ago at the uni one prof annoyed me with his statement that "due to architecture limitations of current processors, Hanoi Towers can't be solved for more than 32 levels".
Challenge accepted. We built a tool that could create any step of any tower up to 32000 levels in linear time. We ran into the limitation of contemporary monitors as we were not able to visualise such tower.
recommendation #algorithms are so gross
Took a quick look at a camera and Amazon is already here with the "ohoho, looks like someone has an expensive new hobby" recommends
This is interesting.
Listening to The Quanta Podcast (In Computers, Memory Is More Useful Than Time): https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_11709_b2336f1f-74e3-4140-a44c-47a3470fd249&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fquantapodcast.quantamagazine.org%2F
One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science.
This week's guest is Ben Brubaker; he recently published "For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time.”
You Need Much Less #Memory than #Time
“Just as I was complaining that we haven't seen many surprising breakthroughs in complexity recently, we get an earthquake of a result to start the year, showing that all #algorithms can be simulated using considerable less memory than the time of the original algorithm. You can #reuse space (#memory) but you can't reuse time, and this new result from #RyanWilliams in an upcoming #STOC paper provides the first stark difference”
<https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/02/you-need-much-less-memory-than-time.html?m=1>
@alkatandan @coop Watch Party! Join to discuss how digital technologies impact our lives. This session we'll watch Cathy O'Neil, "The era of blind faith in big data must end", and Kevin Slavin, "How Algorithms Shape Our World". See Luma event to register and for more information.
https://lu.ma/fgbxenzx
#CoSocialCa #CoSocialWatchParty #algorithms
New release of the Total-Serialism library for JavaScript with many bug fixes and updates is on github/npm!
https://github.com/tmhglnd/total-serialism/releases/tag/v2.10.2
https://www.npmjs.com/package/total-serialism
total-serialism is a set of functions used for procedurally generating and transforming number sequences (mainly in the form of arrays). This library does not output anything else then numbers, but can therefore be integrated with frameworks like P5js, ToneJS, Node4Max, Hydra and any other javascript based project you want to generate arrays for.
TikTok bans the ‘unhealthy’ SkinnyTok hashtag after pressure from regulators.
Efforts to protect kids online are gaining traction in Europe.
Social media platform TikTok has banned worldwide the popular SkinnyTok hashtag linked to weight-loss videos following scrutiny from policymakers in Brussels and Paris.
But now, acc/to internal company docs obtained by NPR, up to 90% of all risk assessments will soon be automated.
In practice, this means things like critical updates to #Meta's #algorithms, new #safety features & changes to how #content is allowed to be shared across the company's platforms will be mostly approved by a system powered by #ArtificialIntelligence — no longer subject to scrutiny by staffers tasked w/debating how a #platform change could have unforeseen repercussions or be misused.
Algorithmic #discrimination: New reporting form to collect cases - AlgorithmWatch - https://algorithmwatch.org/en/press-release-reporting-form-collect-cases/ #algorithms #algoritmos
People without training in computer science or information retrieval, without access to Google's source code or internal training, are telling you that Googlers X, Y, and Z are liars. Think carefully about that.
Seems like everyone wants to be the first to read some fantastic patent and discover the secret to Google’s algorithms. If only it worked that way. If only it were that easy. If only some people weren’t consumed by hubris, announcing great discoveries every few months.
Technology companies love their patents. Many of them award bonuses, grants, and special recognition to employees who […]
This #Google patent does not appear to describe how AI Mode works. It lacks mention of specific key features associated with AI Mode. At best, it may describe one of the processes AI Mode could invoke.
#ai #searchengines #seo #searchengineoptimization #patents #algorithms
"Search With Stateful Chat"
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/62/d9/ad/33b121586dd23a/WO2024182453A1.pdf
“You blew my mind,” said the subject line of an email from #ACMTuringAward recipient Avi Wigderson to Ryan Williams, a theoretical computer scientist at MIT. Earlier, Williams has posted a proof online, establishing a mathematical procedure for transforming any algorithm — no matter what it does — into a form that uses much less space. Learn more: https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-algorithms-a-little-memory-outweighs-a-lot-of-time-20250521/
#TechNews #Algorithms #computing
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