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Audible Althouse #62.
Submit to the podcast. You can trust Althouse, the podcaster, the blogger. Stream it right through your computer here . But to truly submit to Audib…
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"Scientists and genetic counsellors say that these unregulated tools can harm individuals and society, by causing anxiety, unnecessary medical expenses, stigmatization and worse...."
"The test 'is not grounded in science. It is not predictive. It won’t tell you anything,' says Benjamin Neale, a geneticist at the Broad…
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A law school contradiction.
2 observations from a 58-year-old marketing professor who just started going to law school: • The stress level is “scarily high” because of the press…
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That exasperating Cingular phone.
When I lost my cellphone a couple weeks of weeks ago, being the optimist that I am, I saw it as an oppportunity to get a cooler phone. I went over to…
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Steal a laptop and have the worst pictures of your ugly mug up on the web for all to laugh at.
And then the police arrest you for theft... all because the laptop was spying on you the whole time.
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"If you hadn't heard the indictment read to you, you'd think this was a homicide case.... This, ladies and gentlemen, is a computer case..."
Closing arguments in the bizarre prosecution of Lori Drew: The defense attorney insisted the only question is whether Drew violated the terms-of-serv…
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"Apple has issued a recall on several models of Mac laptops because the battery can overheat and catch fire...."
"Experts say a Mac fire is just like a PC fire, except it's more hip and condescending." -- Conan O'Brien . My Power Book has one o…
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Audible Althouse #79.
It's a podcast about the odd last day on a blog called Althouse. What am I really trying to do here? What was that post today that meant so muc…
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"Tech-savvy disabled teen, being beaten for using a website not approved of by hyper-luddite father who's a FAMILY LAW JUDGE..."
"... films it and uses that footage as retaliation to (probably) destroy his career? If you gave me that plot as a TV movie, I'd tell you it…
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IBM's computer "Watson" beats Ken Jennings on "Jeopardy."
Interesting. I think the really unfair part of the matchup was at the buzzer-skill level.
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"The online dating industry is even bigger than the porn industry, and more than 30 percent of first dates end up in coitus yet its customers are much less satisfied than the customers of the porn industry."
"Let me break it down for you, those who go out, partake in a social activity and perhaps later on, sleep with a living human being feel more mi…
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This is the post where I paraphrase 10 things in the NYT article "Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash."
Here 's the text, by Eric Lipson, Ian Austen, and Sharon LaFraniere. I'm blocking and indenting their text and boldfacing key words that made…
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The puzzling dearth of women in computer science and the annoying lack of statistical competence in the NYT.
Here 's an article about how few women there are in the field of computer science, written by Randall Stross (which I noticed because of its rank…
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"But I still find the greyness (which is mainly the non-backlitness) of the Kindle inferior to my iPhone."
Josh Marshall and I are on the same page about this: It's designed that way in part because it allows the battery on a Kindle to last an insane…
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New laptop!
This is my first post on my new laptop, I'd like you to know, in case you've been worrying about me and my destroyed iBook and my labors over…
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Penmanship and nonverbatim notes.
As I finish up grading exams, which are nearly all handwritten -- almost no one uses a typewriter and computers aren't permitted for exams here -…
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"Tech-savvy disabled teen, being beaten for using a website not approved of by hyper-luddite father who's a FAMILY LAW JUDGE..."
"... films it and uses that footage as retaliation to (probably) destroy his career? If you gave me that plot as a TV movie, I'd tell you it…
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"The study from Stanford University – which found that a computer algorithm could correctly distinguish between gay and straight men 81% of the time, and 74% for women..."
"... has raised questions about the biological origins of sexual orientation, the ethics of facial-detection technology, and the potential for t…
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It was 50 years ago today: "The Mother of All Demos."
"'The Mother of All Demos' is a name retroactively applied to a landmark computer demonstration, given at the Association for Computing …
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