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Crypto100 – The 8 Most Influential Women In Crypto.

Merkwürdigkeit 5: Doch nicht wirklich dezentral.

Du denkst, du hast Bitcoin verstanden? Dann lass uns mal über einen Crash nachdenken.

Omoshiro Block: A Memo Pad That Excavates Objects as it Gets Used.

“The day I accidentally killed a little boy.”

We need to open the AI black box before it's too late.

For a number of years in the 1980s, applicants to St George’s Hospital Medical School in London were selected with a high-tech method. A computer program, one of the first of its kind, took the first look at their résumés, carrying out the initial selection of about 2,000 candidates every year. The program analyzed the admissions records to learn the characteristics of successful applications, and was adjusted until its decisions matched those of the admissions team.

But the program had learned to look for more than good grades and signs of academic prowess. Four years after the program was implemented, two doctors at the hospital discovered the program tended to reject female applicants and those with non-European-sounding names, regardless of their academic merit

When Quackery on the Radio Was a Public Health Crisis.

In the 1920s and 30s, regulators and experts grappled with how to stop the sale of dubious devices and miracle cures over the airwaves.

It's the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech.

At a time when anyone can broadcast live or post their thoughts to a social network, we should be living in a utopia of public discourse. We're not.

The way the sun shines on the picture is r/oddlysatisfying.

Source: i.redd.it

Refugees Code Hackathon on 3rd and 4th February 2018!

Google Memory Loss.

I think Google has stopped in­dex­ing the old­er parts of the We­b. I think I can prove it. Google’s com­pe­ti­tion is do­ing bet­ter.