Two New Lifecycles of Fads: Viewing Programming Fads as 'Product Fads'
In the past, I wrote about Yali Pali’s paper about the lifecycle of intellectual fads. I am curious about fads because the programming field seems prone to them, and it’s important to avoid fads at all costs. Today, I learned two new ways to explain fads, after reading When a Fad Ends: An Agent-Based Model of Imitative Behavior by Margo Bergman.
Read MoreMinimaxing the Minimax Algorithm in Tic-Tac-Toe: In Praise of Hardcoding
For a recent coding challenge, I had to implement an AI for a Tic-Tac-Toe game. This AI should not be able to lose a match. A quick Google search reveals that the most efficent way is to use a minimax algorithm to determine what moves are likely to cause the AI to either tie or win against another player. However, nobody I found seemed to analyze what decisions the AI actually makes.
Read MoreRobojournalists vs. Humans: The German Study
Automated Insights and Narrative Science are two companies that specialize in producing software that can write news articles. But how do these news articles stack up to the human-written competition? A German researcher attempts to find out.
Read MoreNarrative Science's AI Beliefs: Revealing Hopes (and Fears)
“Practical Artificial Intelligence for Dummies: Narrative Science Edition” is a free e-book that provides a quick introduction into the AI field. It is also a treatise that outlined Narrative Science’s approach towards dealing with AI.
Read MorePostmorterm for a Devbootcamp Project: The Origins of "Hashography"
Devbootcamp does not have a conventional ‘final exam’ like most schools. Instead, to graduate from the program, you must work with a team of like-minded individuals to build a full-blown website within 7 days. This was my experience in trying to build Hashography, a website that would display tweets about a certain word onto a Google Map.
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