Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for July 9th from 09:59 to 15:58:

• JF Ptak Science Books: Take the July 1945 “How do we Use the Atomic Bomb?” Poll – "This is a continuation of my post/thread “Deciding to Use the Atomic Bomb: The Chicago Metallurgical Lab Poll, July, 1945" which is part of a 50-post thread on the history of atomic and nuclear weapons.  Thus far more than 2400 people have responded to this poll on whether/how to use the atomic bomb that was first taken by the Manhattan Project metallurgical lab physicists at Chicago."
• The Manhattan Project Poll on the Use of Atomic Weapons, July 1945. – This is the straightforward poll of Compton and Daniels which asked 250 scientists at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory arm of the Manhattan Project in pre-Trinity July, 1945. (Originally published as “A Poll of Scientists at Chicago, July 1945,” in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 1948, 44, p63. and again published in Compton’s Atomic Quest in 1956.) You can take this test anonymously. Please try and keep in mind the time and place of the events unfolding: the Japanese resistance to the unconditional surrender ultimatum developing at Potsdam; the resistance to massive air raids; the tenacious fighting in the islands at the outreaches of the Empire; the thousands of American POWs; the circulating estimates of the coming Japanese invasion casualties (hundreds of thousands of Americans, far more so Japanese), and so on.
• Take the same ethics poll that Manhattan Project scientists did 65 years ago – "65 years ago, 250 scientists working on the Manhattan Project were asked how atomic weapons should be used in the war with Japan. Now you can take the same poll, and compare your answers with theirs."
• Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask? | Hacker News –
• Earthquakes in the sky –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for July 3rd from 17:04 to 17:19:

• Facial Action Coding System – Wikipedia –
• The World’s Largest Emotion Database: 5.3 Million Faces and Counting –
• Does Facial Coding Generalize Across Cultures? A Spotlight on Asia – Affectiva : Affectiva –
• Realeyes raises $12.4 million to help brands detect emotion using AI on facial expressions –
• Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients | PNAS –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for July 3rd from 15:34 to 16:56:

• The Artificial Gaze (and Gait Intepretation) of Algorithms –
• How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit | First Round Review –
• Opinion | It’s Not Nice to Lie to the Supreme Court – The New York Times –
• Identifying Emotions from Walking Using Affective and Deep Features – Abstract—We present a new data-driven model and algorithm to identify the perceived emotions of individuals based on their walking styles. Given an RGB video of an individual walking, we extract his/her walking gait in the form of a series of 3D poses. Our goal is to exploit the gait features to classify the emotional state of the human into one of four emotions: happy, sad, angry, or neutral. Our perceived emotion recognition approach is based on using deep features learned via LSTM on labeled emotion datasets. Furthermore, we combine these features with affective features computed from the gaits using posture and movement cues. These features are classified using a Random Forest Classifier. We show that our mapping between the combined feature space and the perceived emotional state provides 80.07% accuracy in identifying the perceived emotions. In addition to classifying discrete categories of emotions, our algorithm also predicts the values of perceived valence and arousal from gaits. We also present an “EWalk (Emotion Walk)” dataset that consists of videos of walking individuals with gaits and labeled emotions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first gait-based model to identify perceived emotions from videos of walking individuals.
• AI classifies people’s emotions from the way they walk | VentureBeat –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 20th from 14:05 to 11:31:

• It was called a perceptron for a reason, damn it – The Yorkshire Ranter –
• Content Moderation | MetaFilter –
• We Make Reality –
• The Redemption of Time and the Untold Story of the Brain We Sent Into Space | Tor.com –
• Good Fiction, Questionable Science: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis | Tor.com –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 19th from 07:23 to 13:51:

• Babylon 5 Is the Greatest, Most Terrible SF Series | Tor.com –
• Skinner Box | Tor.com – A disturbing science fiction story about a seemingly routine scientific mission to Jupiter that is threatened by the interpersonal relationships of its crew. Content warning for fictional depictions of sexual content, including abuse and assault.
• This Remarkably Bad Bill Would Force Tech Platforms to Be ‘Politically Neutral’, Whatever That Means –
• They welcomed a robot into their family, now they’re mourning its death – The Verge –
• EMMO –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 12th from 19:15 to 10:00:

• Opinion | You Care More About Your Privacy Than You Think – The New York Times –
• STSC CrossTalk – F-22 Software Risk Reduction – May 2000 –
• Everyone’s talking about ethics in AI. Here’s what they’re missing – This approach to ethics could be described as DIY, NIH, and NIMBY—as in “do it yourself, not invented here, not in my backyard”—which pushes for teaching selected humanities, ethics, and social sciences to engineers within their companies or institutions, rather than sending them to learn outside their academic disciplines or workplaces.
• 10 Government Legacy Systems Cost Taxpayers $337 Million Every Year – Nextgov –
• YouTube’s Bad Week and the Limitations of Laboratories of Online Governance – Lawfare –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 10th from 21:26 to 18:17:

• Trump’s Trade War Timeline: An Up-to-Date Guide | PIIE –
• Amazon.com: Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World (9780735220560): Clive Thompson: Books –
• Ron Wyden | Congress.gov | Library of Congress –
• A computer virus has thrown Philadelphia’s court system into chaos – The Verge –
• How Did WeWork’s Adam Neumann Build a $47 Billion Company? –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 7th from 15:47 to 17:02:

• Programme | WEBSTOCK 2019 –
• inessential: The NeXT Era Ends, the Swift Era Begins –
• Doraemon, Vol.1 – Kindle edition by FUJIKO F FUJIO. Children Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. –
• Doraemon – Wikipedia –
• AI in Sci-Fi – Andrew Hudson, Madeline Ashby, Lee Konstantinou, Kanta Dihal, Damien Williams, Chris Noessel | Open Transcripts –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 7th from 12:33 to 14:08:

• Overcrowd forces you to think about transit design in a different way – The Verge –
• For twisty stories about human-AI relations, stream I Am Mother and Moon – The Verge –
• Hands on: Bose’s speaker-equipped Frames sunglasses for the iPhone – Putting computers in all the things doesn't always mean putting displays in all the things
• Here’s How Blockchain Could Be Used for Gun Control – In November 2017, Thomas Heston, a public health professor at Washington State University, published a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper suggesting blockchain, the decentralized ledger technology best known as the backbone for cryptocurrency, could improve gun control without actually requiring the government to change any existing laws on who can or can’t own a gun.
• TxDPS – Handgun Licensing –
• Banned from guns, Texas gave him a license anyway. Citizens paid the price. – HoustonChronicle.com –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 6th from 14:51 to 11:54:

• Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Seminar –
• Tim O’Reilly’s argument against Reid Hoffman’s “Blitzscaling” — Quartz –
• MARC PORAT ON COINING THE TERM “INFORMATION ECONOMY” | The Kamla Show –
• Marc Porat | Computer History Museum –
• Zarf Updates: 2019 IGF nominees: my favorites –
• Return of the Obra Dinn (Lucas Pope) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling –
• Overview Document –
• CareKit –