This is third week after I decided to ditch Redux and wrote my own state management — GState. First post, I described basic functions of…

This blog post is inspired by a few Matlab-related tweets of mine, which turned into days-long discussions with fellow science and non-science tweeps.
Those tweets of mine in turn are motivated by two main things: my desire for programming in psychology,…

<p>Local restaurant owners are fed up with GrubHub Seamless, which gets paid handsomely to do its one job poorly.</p>

The problems that play out over social media aren’t any less real.

The algorithm can figure out when the word “moron” is used in good fun, and when a seemingly innocuous word like "animal" is being used to demonise people

Dataset of Linus Torvalds' rants classified by negativity using sentiment analysis - corollari/linusrants

A look into the private living spaces of violent far-right actors.

If you hate them, it’s not your fault

Cupertino thinks EU USB-C plan 'stifles innovation rather than encouraging it'

From Cloudflare’s headline-making takedown of the Daily Stormer last autumn to YouTube’s summer restrictions on LGBTQ content, there's been a surge in “voluntary” platform censorship. Companies—under

Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook." Scott Pelley reports.

And if you don’t, why you should…

If the only way to stamp out illiberalism is through authoritarian and illiberal means, maybe it’s not the speech that’s the problem.

I hate the expression “best practice”, it’s so, so often used by someone to justify the application of cargo cult without actually understanding why.

The company publicly claims its AI is amazing at removing harmful content, but internal documents suggest they know the algorithm is ineffective.

In public, Facebook seems to claim that it removes more than 90 percent of hate speech on its platform, but in private internal communications the company says the figure is only an atrocious 3 to 5 percent. Facebook wants us to believe that almost all hate…

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The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program released amended 2020 hate crime statistics about bias-motivated incidents throughout the nation.