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2017-04-10 08:01:48 Why algorithms aren't working for women | ||
http://www.feministcurrent.com/...ithms-arent-working-women/ | ||
Algorithms are everywhere. They’re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But there’s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr | ||
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2017-04-10 07:21:46 Inside Your Users’ Minds: The Cultural Probe · An A List Apart Article | ||
By analyzing the results of your cultural probe, you can... of how users behave: what they love and hate, what motiv... what they do and why. Solutions based on this knowledge ... give users what they need, rather than what they say the... also help i | ||
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2017-04-03 21:05:14 The Scottish Scoundrel Who Changed How We See Data - Atlas Obscura | ||
http://www.atlasobscura.com/...o-changed-how-we-see-data?... | ||
When he wasn’t blackmailing lords and being sued for l... Playfair invented the pie chart, the bar graph, and the ... | ||
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2017-03-29 23:52:52 Measuring Worth - About Us | ||
There are two missions of this site. The first is to mak... public the highest quality and most reliable historical ... economic aggregates, with particular emphasis on nominal... measures, as well as real (constant-price) measures. The... here on the | ||
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2017-03-23 07:59:41 Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals | ||
But does peer review `work' at all? A systematic review ... available evidence on peer review concluded that `the pr... review is based on faith in its effects, rather than on ... answer to the question on whether peer review works depe... `What is pe | ||
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2017-03-21 20:19:19 Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” Is Our Most Misread Poem | ||
https://www.theparisreview.org/...t-misread-poem-in-america/ | ||
Everyone knows Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”... everyone gets it wrong. | ||
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2017-03-17 18:15:08 A bad abstract is good enough to be published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | Quick Thoughts | ||
https://jcoynester.wordpress.com/...ntal-psychology-general/ | ||
Some abstract succeed in telling a good story by distort... details of what was done and what was found . Some manus... way into prestigious journals because the editor and rev... by what they read in the abstract and don’t notice tha... with what i | ||
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2017-03-13 18:47:54 Brain has more than 100 times higher computational capacity than previously thought, say UCLA scientists | KurzweilAI | ||
http://www.kurzweilai.net/...thought-say-ucla-scientists?... | ||
Illustration of neuron and dendrites. Dendrites receive ... stimulation (via synapses, not shown here) from neurons ... and propagate that stimulation to the neuron cell body (... sends electrochemical stimulation via an axon to communi... | ||
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2017-03-01 23:00:24 Inside the Macedonian Fake-News Complex | WIRED | ||
stories in The Guardian and on BuzzFeed revealed that th... of 55,000 was the registered home of at least 100 pro-Tr... of them filled with sensationalist, utterly fake news | ||
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2017-02-14 10:57:46 University attacked by its own vending machines, smart light bulbs & 5,000 IoT devices | Network World | ||
http://www.networkworld.com/...bs-and-5-000-iot-devices.html | ||
Today’s cautionary tale comes from Verizon’s sneak p... 2017 Data Breach Digest scenario. It involves an unnamed... seafood searches, and an IoT botnet; hackers used the un... vending machines and other IoT devices to attack the uni... network. | ||
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2017-02-06 08:46:22 In referees we trust?: Physics Today: Vol 70, No 2 | ||
http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.3463 | ||
In 1936 refereeing was not a universal practice at the w... scientific journals. It was not even a universal practic... Review. Einstein’s previous submission to that journal... Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paper, was not sent out fo... | ||
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2017-02-02 15:37:54 MacKay | Serendipity | ||
We started from the question of how to take “back of t... calculations and make them explicitly shareable over the... shareable, but to turn them into structured objects that... updated, linked to evidence and so on (in much the same ... entries are | ||
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2017-02-01 21:38:41 | ||
The inaugural address contains the first words uttered b... It is an untarnished moment during which the American le... presidential tone, inspire a country, put an election to... | ||
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2017-01-29 19:50:37 Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms - The Local | ||
http://www.thelocal.at/...-hackers-as-guests-locked-in-rooms | ||
One of Europe's top hotels has admitted they had to pay ... Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack the... system, locking hundreds of guests in or out of their ro... was paid. | ||
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2017-01-26 08:31:13 Based on a *True* True Story? — Information is Beautiful | ||
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/...-a-true-true-story/ | ||
Based on a True True Story? | ||
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2017-01-24 09:42:15 WikiCFP : Call For Papers of Conferences, Workshops and Journals | ||
WikiCFP is a semantic wiki for Calls For Papers in scien... fields. There are about 50,000 CFPs on WikiCFP. Over 100... use WikiCFP each month. | ||
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2017-01-19 20:05:39 Humans aren’t the only great apes that can ‘read minds’ | Science | AAAS | ||
http://www.sciencemag.org/...-only-great-apes-can-read-minds | ||
For years, only humans were thought to have this key cog... attributing “false belief,” which is believed to und... empathy, teaching, and perhaps even language. But three ... apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans—also know ... a false bel | ||
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2017-01-15 15:33:53 Impact of Social Sciences – 10 Chrome extensions to help manage references, notes, citations and capture information. | ||
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/...citations-and-capture-information/ | ||
From literature searches to collaborative online writing... amount of the research process now takes place online.®.. Tattersall provides a list of useful Google Chrome exte... added to the browser to help facilitate the daily academ... Recommendat | ||
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2017-01-15 10:10:30 Why time management is ruining our lives | Oliver Burkeman | Technology | The Guardian | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...nagement-is-ruining-our-lives | ||
The allure of the doctrine of time management is that, o... might finally be under control. Yet work in the modern e... for its limitlessness. And if the stream of incoming ema... Inbox Zero can never bring liberation: you’re still Si... boulder up | ||
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2017-01-11 13:03:40 Study finds women don't get same credit men do for co-authored papers | ||
https://www.insidehighered.com/...-do-co-authored-papers?... | ||
Her findings: | ||
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2017-01-09 21:58:36 The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain | ||
https://hbr.org/.../the-humans-working-behind-the-ai-curtain | ||
Our team learned from two years of researching the world... where content moderation is a steady stream of gig work,... practices of both the largest and the smallest companies... involve literally thousands of decisions about what cont... delete. | ||
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2017-01-03 15:06:38 Automated book-culling software drives librarians to create fake patrons to "check out" endangered titles / Boing Boing | ||
https://boingboing.net/...utomated-book-culling-softwar.html | ||
Two employees at the East Lake County Library created a ... called Chuck Finley -- entering fake driver's license an... into the library system -- and then used the account to ... books over nine months in 2016, in order to trick the sy... that the bo | ||
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2016-12-27 19:54:49 Mapped: Which country is across the sea from Wales' coast? - BBC News | ||
Have you ever stood on a beach in Wales and wondered wha... side of the ocean? | ||
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2016-12-27 09:25:00 BBC - Future - The man who studies the spread of ignorance | ||
http://www.bbc.com/...an-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance | ||
Proctor had found that the cigarette industry did not wa... know the harms of its product, and it spent billions obs... the health effects of smoking. This search led him to cr... | ||
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2016-12-27 08:59:23 The farmer who built her own broadband - BBC News | ||
"I'm just a farmer's wife," says Christine Conder, modes... members of the rural communities of Lancashire she is al... internet pioneer. | ||
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2016-12-25 08:31:14 From yoga pants to smart shoes: The technology of touch - BBC News | ||
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38385039?CMP=share_btn_me | ||
Imagine being able to navigate the streets just by recei... your footwear. Or feeling a tingle in your yoga tights i... position needs improvement. | ||
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2016-12-24 08:09:57 About - Our World In Data | ||
Our World in Data (OWID) is an online publication that s... conditions are changing. The aim is to give a global ove... | ||
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2016-12-13 11:16:16 About - the Datahub | ||
CKAN is a tool for managing and publishing collections o... by national and local governments, research institutions... organisations which collect a lot of data. With its powe... faceting, users can browse and find the data they need, ... using maps, | ||
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2016-12-13 10:06:47 CWTS Journal Indicators | ||
CWTS Journal Indicators provides free access to bibliome... scientific journals. The indicators have been calculated... University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies... the Scopus bibliographic database produced by Elsevier. ... available f | ||
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2016-12-13 08:21:57 Citation-Based Indices of Scholarly Impact: Databases and Norms – Association for Psychological Science | ||
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/...tabases-and-norms#... | ||
Scholarly impact has long been an intriguing research to... 2010; Sternberg, 2003) as well as a crucial factor in ma... decisions (e.g., hiring, tenure, promotion, research sup... honors). As decision makers ramp up their reliance on ... (Abbott, Cy | ||
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