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Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg / Contributor | Bloomberg) This month, LinkedIn researchers revealed in Science that the company spent five years quietly researching more than 20 million users. By tweaking the professional networking platform’s algorithm, researchers were trying to determine through A/B testing whether users end up with more job opportunities when they connect with known […]
Enlarge (credit: Nathan Howard / Stringer | Getty Images News) For years, researchers have suggested that algorithms feeding users content aren’t the cause of online echo chambers, but are more likely due to users actively seeking out content that aligns with their beliefs. This week, New York University researchers for the Center for Social Media […]
What is STEM? Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are largely used to influence innovative solutions to our world’s problems. Day-to-day decisions are increasingly being driven by data, with 90% of the world’s data generated just in the last two years. The proliferation of global access to mobile technology, the internet, and other innovations indicates […]
The Scratch Programming Language Scratch may not be a programming language that you’re familiar with if you’ve grown up hearing about BASIC and Cobol, but today Scratch is used in colleges, universities, and workshops to teach the basics of coding to both children and adults. Scratch was a project created by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group […]
What Is An Algorithm? An algorithm is a set of step-by-step procedures, or a set of rules to follow, for completing a specific task or solving a particular problem. Algorithms are all around us. The recipe for baking a cake, the method we use to solve a long division problem, and the process of doing […]
Instagram is now patrolling your feed to flag threatening photos and comments.
Companies like Facebook use artificial intelligence to try to detect hate speech, but new research proves it’s a daunting task. https://media.wired.com/photos/5ba2d81dbc9a294fa13c6198/master/pass/hate%20speech%20algorithm.jpg
Enlarge / Vizaline owners Scott Dow and Brent Melton (right), standing in front of a sample Viza-plat property outline. (credit: Chuck Cook) When does drawing a digital line on a satellite map cross an ethereal threshold into the centuries-old practice of licensed land surveying? This is the existential question now before a Mississippi state court. […]
Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images YouTube is releasing an alternative version of its YouTube Kids app that will rely on human curation to sift through video content instead of an algorithm, according to Buzzfeed News. The whitelisted app will reportedly be available in a matter of weeks. The move comes after a Business Insider investigation revealed that […]
David Ramos/Getty Images Facebook’s algorithm could mean the beginning of the end for a certain type of video of the News Feed. The company has said it will penalize “passive content” in favor of content with which people can have meaningful interactions. But no one knows how that will play out. Some publishers that have […]
