Curated Commons // Edition 99
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Want to have your emotions measured and transmitted?
A scarf embedded with sensors so a football club can know the true emotions of their fans. Apparently, someone at Manchester City thinks it’s a great idea! - Read here
Harvesting organs, from embryos
We are now beginning to push science. And medical ethics. - Read here
AI, trained on shit, is shit! The rise of Mischief Models
What do you get if you train an AI system on hate speech. You get algorithmic a$$#(@!s. - Read here
Higher temperatures impacting population dynamics
This is fascinatingly worrying. Nearly every sea turtle born in Florida is a female - something apparently directly attributable to rising temperatures! - Read here
When algorithms cost commoners $$$
Great example for #YouHadOneJob! - Read here ($)
A company that collects data without explicit permission, keeps losing it, and now messes up its core offering!
Equifax Inc. provided inaccurate credit scores on millions of U.S. consumers seeking loans during a three-week period earlier this year, according to bank executives and others familiar with the errors…The scores were sometimes off by 20 points or more in either direction, the people said, enough to alter the interest rates consumers were offered or to result in their applications being rejected altogether…Equifax said it has since fixed the error, which the company described as a “technology coding issue.”
Can you use AI to help talk to animals?
Do animals ‘talk’ to one another. And can we use machine learning to help understand what they are saying? Interesting research. - Read here
Payola, but in podcasts
Not that anyone is surprised, but pay-to-speak is now mainstream in podcasts as well that have a significant audience. - Read here ($)
AI systems and lava lamps
Fascinating experiment where a machine learning system is ‘watching’ videos of physical systems and determining the number of variables potentially involved in it. - Read here
Efficient markets, they said!
A metaverse stock this time, fittingly!
OnlyFans. OnlyNamedFans.
Interesting interview with Amrapali Gan, the CEO of OnlyFans. - Read here
War for top tech talent can get real ugly, real quick
Two top techies in one of Goldman Sachs’ trading teams, with strong positive feedback in past, now find themselves accused of potentially stealing code from GS after they quit the company to join a hedge fund. - Read here ($)
It’s true. Parentese is a global language!
That high-pitched weird sounds we make when we talk to babies - they are similar across the world. - Read here($)
Retail is as much a business of returns
2021 retail returns in the US totaled $761 billion in lost sales - this figure is more than the annual budget for the U.S. Department of Defense! - Read here ($)
More Interesting Reads:
Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK - Read here
There’s now a connected vehicle data industry in the making - Read here
Bees are intelligent creatures - Read here ($)
“The sound of gentrification is silence.” - Read here($)
Lovely implementation, and sure way of tiring out kids!
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