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| A few thoughts on Pew’s latest report: Notable findings on race & privacy in teen social media use. |
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| NYers: At noon, I'm on a panel on privacy as part of the Tech Cafe at in Chelsea: Join us! |
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| The folks have unveiled a new, amazing report: Teens, Social Media, and Privacy: Tis a *MUST* read! |
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| At 1PM EST, I'll be doing a live chat as part of w/ librarians. Instructions to join are here: |
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| ::laugh:: I'd laugh my ass off if you made one. But I know better than to try to take selfies while balancing on this contraption |
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| Just a heads up: I will be taking a parental leave at some point this summer: |
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| Many papers from the conference I'm tweeting from today are available here: |
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| I know there's been research on this, but I don't what is written up or where. This was many moons ago for me. |
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| There's been lots of media coverage in relation to Kinect. I was exposed to the problem when doing computer vision ages ago. |
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| ::nod:: Exactly. Same problem in computer vision. :( |
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| folks: Face recognition systems are better at tracking *light* skinned faces, not dark skin. And the reason has to do with lighting |
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| Patina of respectability & mathematical rigor over what actually protects insiders' pockets on financial firm algos |
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| ::laugh:: So does this incentivize you to be more careless? |
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| Historians: what are your favorite texts on religious fears of / response to science? |
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| I suspect historical theological responses to scientific revolution can help explain contemporary anxieties about computation. |
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| Particularly complicated because of the power dynamics in some homes. Many teens forced to give over passwords. |
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| ::giggle:: I'm mega humored to be ref'ed in Life in Academic Publishing (animated gif goodness) (tx ) |
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| Old fogie complaint: Why do so many basic tech tools get *worse* w/ each new rev? I hate feature creep at the expense of functionality. Grr. |
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| I'm sad to miss DataEDGE at my alma mater this year but if you're in Berkeley at the end of May, check it out: |
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| Five jars of gefilte fish have taken up space in the fridge since Passover. I loathe the stuff. But we found someone who loves it: the cat!! |
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