Is it still just enough to state “Do No Harm”?
Algorithms are becoming useful tools. How do we maintain their role only for good?
Can an Algorithm learn right from wrong?
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Algorithms need Editors
A recent article on Mashable highlighted an important concept: Algorithms need Editors!
“Twitter’s ‘LasVagas’ hashtag fail shows the worst part of algorithms…
…Twitter’s system looked at the various Las Vegas shooting-related hashtags and chose the misspelling for whatever reason. And the people involved couldn’t do anything about it…
This is exactly why journalists have editors—and algorithms need them, too.”
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Digital Data and Empathy
How can digital data become human- centered with Empathy?
Numbers and data are honest, and unemotional.
How will AI learn Empathy?
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Serendipity in AI
How will AI account for parameters that fall out of the norm, when the dataset rules are written to exclude some factors simply as, noise?
Where is the serendipity in AI?
Special Issue: Digital Property: Open-Source Architecture
September/October 2016
Volume 86, Issue 5
Issue edited by: Wendy W Fok, Antoine Picon
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Subdivide Optimize Analyze
Process for using Evolute Tools Pro
- Define Reference Geometry
- Create the Coarse Mesh
- Subdivide
- Optimize
- Analyze
- Refine Optimized Surface
Submissions are now being accepted for the Exhibition of Mathematical Art to be held as part of the 2017 Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 4-7, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. Well over five thousand mathematicians typically attend this meeting, so this is an excellent opportunity to get your work seen by people who will appreciate it. Submissions must be made online at http://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/welcome. The deadline for completing submissions is October 15. As noted previously, there will also be a “Mathematics and the Arts” session at the meeting, organized by Douglas Norton.
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Chicago Array of Things
Wonder if these 500 nodes were considered design elements or a means to an end?
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What is Open Source Architecture?
“A provocative look at the architecture of the future and the challenges of learning from the past
Open Source Architecture is a visionary manifesto for the architecture of tomorrow that argues for a paradigm shift from architecture as a means of supporting the ego-fueled grand visions of “starchitects” to a collaborative, inclusive, network-driven process inspired by twenty-first-century trends such as crowd-sourcing, open access, and mass customization. The question is how collaborative design can avoid becoming design-by-committee. Authors Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel
navigate this topic nimbly in chapters such as “Why It Did Not Work” and “Learning from the Network.”
They also meet the essential requirement of any manifesto, considering the applications of open-source architecture not only conceptually but also in practice, in chapters such as “Open Source Gets Physical” and “Building Harmonies.” Open Source Architecture is an important new work on the frontlines of architectural thought and practice.”