Interesting Links for 21-01-2018

[andrewducker]

Why King of Bollywood Akshay Kumar Made A Movie About Menstruation

(tags: India menstruation movies )

Dutch police are confiscating expensive clothes from kids who look too poor to wear them

(tags: clothing money Holland OhForFucksSake )

WE! DO NOT! TALK ABOUT! THE ORANGUTAN!

(tags: argument academia funny viaJennieRigg )

Ethics, artificial intelligence and the Lovelace Oath

(tags: ai ethics )

School for Sirens

(tags: women men myths comic )

What, exactly, is no platforming?

(tags: censorship freespeech language )

Where The Shutdown Blame Lies

(tags: politics usa republicans )

How to communicate with angry people

(tags: anger communication )

Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen

(tags: drwho review books douglasadams )

British 15-year-old gained access to intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending to be head of CIA

(tags: hacking fraud usa uk security epicfail )

Liberalism, Centrism, and the Difference

(tags: politics liberal uk )

East Coast vs West Coast - how Dumbo got its psychedelic sequence

(tags: animation Disney history )

Why is only half of Mars magnetized?

(tags: mars magnets space )

Comments

[gingicat]

I have not heard the term “no platform” before. Is it shorthand for “they may say what they like, but we at this venue/organization/school will not give them a platform to spew hateful lies denying the civil rights of a given set of people”?

[luzclarita]

Wow! That de-escalation technique reminds me of the new Sarah Silverman show https://www.hulu.com/i-love-you-america

Lovelace Oath

[danieldwilliam]

I am no expert on Artificial Intelligence or deep learning. To be honest I'm not sure the people I work with are experts on it (for a value of expert of literally wrote the PhD text book) but the are definately applying deep learning to problems.

I get the impression from chat around the office that the deep learning tools handling very large data sets can't tell you why they "know" what they know. I think a lack of transparancy might be fundamentally linked to how some of these systems work. So I'm not sure it's entirely possible to apply the Lovelace Oath and always use something that has the required level of transparancy without losing significant amounts of functionality.

Not having that functionallity might be worth having the transparancy. It may be possible to back fill the transaparancy and achieve the goals some other way.