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February 11, 2018

Zeynep Tufekci: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | TED Talk

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response.

Java 8: Bastion of Long-term Support | Java Code Geeks - 2018

The new Java release train means that there will be a new release of Java every six months. And when the next release comes out, the previous release is obsolete.

Writing performance reviews with positive constructive feedback

Writing performance reviews with positive constructive feedback

More emacs configuration tweaks (multiple-cursor on click, minimap, code folding, ensime eval overlays)

At Affectv we use a wide range of editors: Sublime, Atom, Emacs, Pycharm, IntelliJ... Actually only two people use the same editor! As suc...