High grades might be awarded to papers that show the structural features of highly persuasive writing – papers that follow the “persuasion script”, so to speak.
Sport algorithms aren’t working for business.
Shutterstock
This is how marketers are taking advantage of customer data to build predictive algorithms, and even tailor their products and offerings.
There’s a global war going on, and a global arms race to go with it. It’s not a race for physical weapons, it’s a race to develop cyber weapons of psychological, emotional, financial and infrastructure attack.
(Shutterstock)
Hostile foreign powers and even tech companies are not attacking us with bullets and bombs; they’re doing it with bits and bytes. It’s Cyber Security Awareness Month, so what to do about the third world war being waged in cyberspace?
Computers today are fast and powerful but they still can’t think like a human when it comes to some tasks we find easy. That’s why tech companies are turning to neuroscience for help.
How can we ensure technology brings prosperity to us all?
ra2studio/Shutterstock.com
Interview with the scientist Claude Berrou, inventor of the turbocodes that protect the data of the connected objects. Today, he is exploring the neurosciences.
Image of a five-knot tori algorithmically.
Tanaka Juuyoh/Flickr
Today algorithms are ubiquitous, yet often misunderstood. Rather than mysterious entities, they’re closer to recipes, and the quality of the output depends on the input – in their case, data.
Lenka Zdeborova, Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
Methods stemming from decades of research on disordered materials are used to describe algorithmic phase transitions, and to design new algorithms in machine-learning problems.
Use of data-driven risk assessments in sentencing may be heard by the Supreme Court.
Karen Neoh/flickr
The Supreme Court may soon hear a case on data-driven criminal sentencing. Research suggests that algorithms are not as good as we think they are at making these decisions.
With the right algorithm, scientists can detect how you feel through your Facebook posts.
Bakhur Nick/Shutterstock
Crime data reflect only what crimes are identified by the police – not all the crimes that occur. So decisions based on crime data are necessarily biased and incompletely informed.
Australians should be able to do more than just access and transfer their own consumer data.
www.shutterstock.com
The Productivity Commission’s report on data availability and use is disappointing for consumers, who won’t be able to stop firms collecting their data or challenge automated decisions made using it.