Sep 1, 2021
How Humans Judge Machines is an academic publication covering the results of experiments on how humans judge machines. The digital version is free, or you can purchase a print version. How Humans Judge Machines compares the reactions of people in the United States to...
Sep 1, 2021
Wildfires continue to burn in the western United States. The New York Times provides a tracker showing the ones burning now, along with air quality and a smoke forecast. A couple of weeks ago, it smelled of smoke in my area and the sky was orange. I guess this is the...
Aug 31, 2021
Noah Veltman fed an AI movie descriptions and made it generate images. The results are in quiz form so that you can guess the movies. I would give myself a poor rating for guessing the movies, but once you see the answer, you’re like oh yeah of course. Veltman...
Aug 30, 2021
Chris Yu, Henrik Schumacher, and Keenan Crane from Carnegie Mellon University are working on repulsive curves, which is a method to efficiently unravel curves so that they don’t overlap: Curves play a fundamental role across computer graphics, physical...
Aug 27, 2021
Matt Henderson on Numberphile shows off a “lightning algorithm” which is actually a maze-solving algorithm that shows the solution at the end. Come for the demo at the beginning but stay for the explanation. Tags: algorithm, Matt Henderson,...
Aug 26, 2021
Welcome to issue #154 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members about how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and every month I collect visualization tools and learning resources that help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for...
Aug 26, 2021
This is a 24-hour snapshot for a day in the life of Americans.Read More
Aug 25, 2021
For their 5 Levels series, Wired brought in Hilary Mason to explain machine learning at five levels of difficulty. Mason’s explanations are super helpful at every level. Tags: Hilary Mason, machine learning, Wired
Aug 24, 2021
Robert Gebeloff, Denise Lu and Miriam Jordan for The New York Times looked at overall increases and variation within the Asian population: North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, North Carolina and Indiana are among states that experienced major growth in the past decade....
Aug 23, 2021
For NYT Opinion, Josh Bivens and Stuart A. Thompson argue that you don’t need to panic about inflation: It may surprise many Americans that even during times of strong growth and very low inflation (like the late 1990s) or weak growth and low inflation (like the...
