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"Suppose your story situation is this. Character A is telling a story, but it’s a lie. Character B realizes it’s a lie, but doesn’t signal that recognition. This is really two problems in one: How do you tell the audience A is lying? And how do you convey that B knows but doesn’t reveal that knowledge?"
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"Private online platforms have an increasingly essential role in free speech andparticipation in democratic culture. But while it might appear that any internet user canpublish freely and instantly online, many platforms actively curate the content posted bytheir users. How and why these platforms operate to moderate speech is largely opaque. This Article provides the first analysis of what these platforms are actually doing tomoderate online speech under a regulatory and First Amendment framework."
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Add movement to a bar chart, and you’ve got yourself a captive audience.
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"Carbolytics is a project at the intersection of art and research that aims to raise awareness and call for action on the environmental impact of pervasive surveillance within the advertising technology ecosystem (AdTech), as well as to provide a new perspective to address the social and environmental costs of opaque data collection practices."
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“If you go out seeking to learn why blockchains and the systems built atop them are apparently the future of our web, you’ll begin to see some common themes. These fall apart under further scrutiny.”
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"Maltego is a comprehensive tool for graphical link analyses that offers real-time data mining and information gathering, as well as the representation of this information on a node-based graph, making patterns and multiple order connections between said information easily identifiable."
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What Is A PACT Analysis? People: relevant user characteristics and skills Activities: how is the activity currently carried out? Why? What can be improved? Context: the environment of the activity Technologies: what tools are used now, and how might new developments be used?
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The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive.
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Full text searchable tweet archive: $ pip install csvs-to-sqlite datasette [download archive from…
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All the slides plus analysis.
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'The question posed in that meeting (Why don’t we just use Material Design?) reverses the design process in a way that epitomizes the problem with any design system. The question that should have been asked was: “Would employing Material Design solve some, or all, of our problems?”'
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"The goal of a STAMP-based analysis is to determine why the events occurred… and to identify the changes that could prevent them and similar events in the future. 1 One of my big heroes is Nancy Leveson, who did a bunch of stuff like the Therac-25 investigation and debunking N-version programming. She studies what makes software unsafe and what we can do about that. More recently she’s advocated the “STAMP model” for understanding systems."
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Web technology information profiler tool. Find out what a website is built with.
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Last week we detailed the camera hardware changes of the iPhone XS vs. the iPhone X, and I wondered why Apple’s keynote focused on changes in camera software rather than the new hardware. After…
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RiskIQ data shows Magecart was behind the British Airways breach by compromising javascript on the airline's website with an extremely targeted attack.
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"When you have rising monetization, rising growth and rising data collection, it drives a lot of regulatory scrutiny whether it’s related to data privacy, competition or safety in content."
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Analyze text using ML to extract relevant entities, understand the overall sentiment, identify parts of speech and create dependency parse trees.
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"The Engauge Digitizer tool accepts image files (like PNG, JPEG and TIFF) containing graphs, and recovers the data points from those graphs. The resulting data points are usually used as input to other software applications. Conceptually, Engauge Digitizer is the opposite of a graphing tool that converts data points to graphs. "
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"When we begin to look at AI stories over time, as we did in the prior post and will continue in this one, one of the basic changes we can track is how the stories seem to want us to feel about AI, or their tone. Are they more positive about AI, more negative, or neutral/balanced?"
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"There's a pretty common argument in tech that though of course there are billions more smartphones than PCs, and will be many more still, smartphones are not really the next computing platform, just a computing platform, because smartphones (and the tablets that derive from them) are only used for consumption where PCs are used for creation. You might look at your smartphone a lot, but once you need to create, you'll go back to a PC. There are two pretty basic problems with this line of thinking. First, the idea that you cannot create on a smartphone or tablet assumes both that the software on the new device doesn't change and that the nature of the work won't change. Neither are good assumptions. "
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"I was working with a large css codebase and wanted to see if our rules were becoming more specific as the css source grew, so I built css.benjaminbenben.com to look at how css rules are applied to a page."
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"User Centered Design Canvas is an easy to use and effective tool for analysing, organising and facilitating user experience design."
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coala provides a common command-line interface for linting and fixing all your code, regardless of the programming languages you use.
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"Rogue One is a great addition to the Star Wars universe because it takes a glaringly stupid plot mechanism—the exhaust port vulnerability in the Death Star—and attributes it to an architect’s sabotage. One of the dumbest things about the Star Wars franchise then becomes something sad, poignant, and believable. But Rogue One also raises new questions about its fictional world. Some really burning, important questions. Like, what’s the deal with the disk formats of the Star Wars universe?"
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"Kano Model Analysis is a useful technique for deciding which features you want to include in a product or service. It helps you break away from a profit-minimizing mindset that says you've got to have as many features as possible in a product, and helps you think more subtly about the features you include."
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Bookmarked primarily for the data visualisation aspect.
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Radiohead’s BURN THE WITCH – Instrumental and Theoretical Analysis It may clock in at under four minutes, but Burn The Witch is an incredibly dense track. The amount of precision and thought that went...
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Open source network intrusion and monitoring. Stupid name.
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"To implement a project successfully, you need to manage risks well. This tool gives you a framework for prioritizing risks quickly and effectively."
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This article explains how to use Decision Matrix Analysis - a useful technique for making a choice when many factors must be balanced
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Complete guide to E-Commerce tracking in Google Universal Analytics.
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"I’ve picked on a single dataset, the list of price paid for property from The Land Registry, and every day over the next month I’ll use it to make 30 small things to talk about open data and visualisation."
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A general purpose real-time charting library for building beautiful, smooth, and high performance visualizations.
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There's a simple formula for finding your sample size.
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