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Monday, 20 September 2021

Information Retrieval

2018 Data Mining: How You're Revealing More Than You Think - ScSh > .
2018 What Does Facebook Really Know About Your Personality? - ScShPs > .
Information Retrieval - Doyle >> .

Information retrieval (IR) is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other content-based indexing. Information retrieval is the science of searching for information in a document, searching for documents themselves, and also searching for the metadata that describes data, and for databases of texts, images or sounds.

Automated information retrieval systems are used to reduce what has been called information overload. An IR system is a software system that provides access to books, journals and other documents; stores and manages those documents. Web search engines are the most visible IR applications.

Friday, 23 April 2021

Foreign Influence Campaigns

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Overcoming Foreign Influence in Social Media with Amy Zegart | Policy Ed > .

American adversaries such as Russia and China are using cyber-enabled deception operations to spread divisive messages. In 2016, Houston’s Islamic Da’wah Center became the site of two dueling protests, both of which began in online communities formed by a Kremlin-backed organization. Discovering and calling out specific disinformation campaigns can be difficult, but by increasing awareness that our adversaries are actively trying to inflame divisions in our society, we can begin to counter these insidious efforts. 

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence, here: https://www.hoover.org/research/spies...
“Why Cyber Is Different,” https://www.policyed.org/intellection...
“How Cyber Attacks Threaten Our Security” https://www.policyed.org/intellection.... “Crowdsourcing and the Mobs,” https://www.hoover.org/research/crowd...
“Threats Never Sleep,” https://www.hoover.org/research/threa... .

Wednesday, 13 January 2021

Personal Bias and Tribalism


Our brains are wired for personal bias and tribalism, and we tend to view the world through this distorted filter — embracing the ideas that support our current worldview and shooting down those that challenge it. Fortunately, there are emotional skills and habits we can adopt to break out of these deeply ingrained thought patterns and work to view the world as it truly is (rather than as we wish for it to be). The discussion addresses some of the ways our brains are wired to deceive us — and the habits we can form to overcome these tendencies and see the world more clearly.

Julia Galef is author of the Scout Mindset and host of the Rationally Speaking Podcast

Thursday, 23 July 2020

False-Balance Media Bias

2021 The Media Bias Nobody is Talking About | Robert Reich > .


Robert Reich breaks down how the mainstream media draws a false equivalence between the right wrong and the left and misleads the public about what's really at stake.  The mainstream media has historically tried to balance left and right wrong in its political coverage, and present what it views as a reasonable center. That may sound good in theory. But the old politics no longer exists and the former labels “left” versus “right” are outdated. Today it’s democracy versus authoritarianism, voting rights versus white supremacy. There’s no reasonable center between these positions, no justifiable compromise. Equating them is misleading and dangerous. Don't fall for it.

The Real Political Battle in America ►► https://youtu.be/hkM_NG6HkqY .

Sunday, 5 July 2020

X Twitter

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24-11-16 Twitter and responsible social media - Anders > .

An application programming interface (API) is a connection between computers or between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how to build such a connection or interface is called an API specification. A computer system that meets this standard is said to implement or expose an API. The term API may refer either to the specification or to the implementation.

In contrast to a user interface, which connects a computer to a person, an application programming interface connects computers or pieces of software to each other. It is not intended to be used directly by a person (the end user) other than a computer programmer who is incorporating it into software. An API is often made up of different parts which act as tools or services that are available to the programmer. A program or a programmer that uses one of these parts is said to call that portion of the API. The calls that make up the API are also known as subroutines, methods, requests, or endpoints. An API specification defines these calls, meaning that it explains how to use or implement them.

One purpose of APIs is to hide the internal details of how a system works, exposing only those parts a programmer will find useful and keeping them consistent even if the internal details later change. An API may be custom-built for a particular pair of systems, or it may be a shared standard allowing interoperability among many systems.

The term API is often used to refer to web APIs, which allow communication between computers that are joined by the internet. There are also APIs for programming languages, software libraries, computer operating systems, and computer hardware. APIs originated in the 1940s, though the term did not emerge until the 1960s and 70s.

Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Mill - Free Speech

.Mill Still Matters Today: Free Speech in the 21st Century | Richard Reeves > .

With rising concerns around COVID-19 misinformation, election fraud claims, hate speech online and on-campus, many argue that traditional arguments for free speech are no longer sustainable. Today’s blog, Mill Still Matters Today, is a defense of the values of John Stuart Mill — the most influential English language philosopher of the 19th century. His robust defense of personal liberty and free speech is a subject of fruitful debate today.

Thursday, 10 October 2019

Skepticism

.What is Skepticism? | Wondrium Perspectives > .

00:00 What Is Skepticism?
02:15 Radical Skepticism With Rene Descartes
03:59 A Discussion About Empiricism
06:46 What Is Scientific Skepticism?
08:31 The Importance of Everyday Skepticism