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Web Data Knowledge Extraction. Juan M. Tirado, Ovidiu Serban, Qiang Guo, and Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom. March 24, 2016. “A constantly growing amount of information is available through the web. Unfortunately, extracting useful content from this massive amount of data still remains an open issue. The lack of standard …
Birdsong dialect patterns explained using magnetic domains, James Burridge, Steven Kenney (Submitted on 12 Mar 2016). “The songs and calls of many bird species, like human speech, form distinct regional dialects. We suggest that the process of dialect formation is analogous to the physical process of magnetic domain formation. We take the coastal breeding grounds …
Revealing the Hidden Patterns of News Photos: Analysis of Millions of News Photos Using GDELT and Deep Learning-based Vision APIs Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An (Submitted on 15 Mar 2016 (v1), last revised 24 Mar 2016 (this version, v2)). arXiv:1603.04531v2 [cs.CY] for this version) “In this work, we analyze more than two million news photos published …
Art Under Attack – FREEMUSE Annual Statistics on Censorship and Attacks on Artistic Freedom in 2015: “Artistic freedom is under extreme pressure in far too many countries. The Freemuse annual report summarises censorship and threats on artistic freedom in over 70 countries. While at the UN level there have been positive signs of larger attention …
Via Fast CoExit – Your Data Footprint Is Affecting Your Life In Ways You Can’t Even Imagine – Job decisions, college admissions, health care decisions: All are now being fundamentally altered by your big data, and you might not even know. “…Predictions about you (and millions of other strangers) are starting to deeply shape your …
Macroeconomic Dimensions of Public-Private Partnerships, International Monetary Fund Working Paper, March 24, 2016. The voluminous literature comparing public-private partnerships (P3s) and own-investment (OI) by the public sector is dominated by contributions from microeconomic theory. This paper gives macroeconomics a voice in the debate by investigating the repercussions of P3 vs. OI in a dynamic general …
White, Lawrence J., Housing, Housing Policy, and Housing Finance: Time for a Re-Assessment (March 24, 2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2754311 “The shapers of the American mortgage finance system hoped to achieve the security of government ownership, the integrity of local banking and the ingenuity of Wall Street. Instead they got the ingenuity of …
The Race Is On to Control Artificial Intelligence, and Tech’s Future By John Markoff and Steve Lohr – “Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft are using high salaries and games pitting humans against computers to try to claim the standard on which all companies will build their A.I. technology.”
Follow up to previous posting – Controversy over free journal access database keeps Sci-Hub in legal and research spotlight – see Wellcome Trust and COAF Open Access Spend, 2014-15: “…Once a year we ask all those institutions in receipt of an open access (OA) grant from the Trust to provide details on how the grant …
