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Discovered walking to the hotel in Arlington today.
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Discovered walking to the hotel in Arlington today.
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Yes, you can force a password change on a Blackberry wireless device from the server even when the device’s wireless is turned off. You have to connect it to your desktop for it to get the updated password though. That’s how I was able to get into my device again and use it to get…
This is, probably, a decent idea, but I have a question for Instagram, and Twitter for that matter. Look at the rationale for getting rid of “likes”: “”Testing a Change to How You See Likes – We want your followers to focus on what you share, not how many likes your posts get. During this…
Any way you look at it, law enforcement does not look good when it comes to these cases where they are letting people walk instead of showing how they got the evidence in the first place. “The cases deal with child porn and BitTorrent distribution. The defendants are hardly the most sympathetic. But, like the…
Do you know how much information is stored on a device like the Google Home or Amazon Echo? Before you decide to get rid of it, by donating, or handing it down to a friend, you may want to check out this article: Your smart speakers are listening: Wipe them clean before giving them away….
Yes, it’s true, work upgraded from my junky old T-mobile 7730, to a brand new Verizon 8830 -Curve. It’s going to take some getting used to, I’ve had it for 5 hours and am still reflexively reaching for the trackwheel when I pick it up instead of using the trackball at the center, and even…
And this really brings me back to my point, that we do a poor job of truly understanding science, statistics and cause and effect. We believe that algorithms have all been well-thought out, and produce a “true” result, even when they are trying to predict something as unpredictable as what traffic will look like 20 years from now. We assume social science studies are giving us the “right” answer for how to educate people, or train them for the best outcomes, without considering what we are teaching them about the larger world. We assume that we can tweak one belief, or one thing, without human beings reacting to those changes in unpredictable ways, all the while thinking our one change will cause the reaction we DO predict.
We assume a lot that should never be assumed. We over-simplify a world that actually has more influences than we can possibly account for, and assume that what is really a small statistical difference represents a universal truth.
It doesn’t. There are no simple answers. It takes hard work, hard discussions, and lots of listening to figure out the best way forward. Don’t wait for AI to tell you what to do, it may be missing quite a bit.