Chess is a game designed for two players. All the experiments with ever more advanced computers playing either against humans or each other naturally conform to this assumption. But what if the game were changed so that each piece were …
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“Dangling this” drip torture, or the “poor man’s clickbait”
It may not rise to the level of “torture,” but it sure is annoying – the constant resort to a “dangling this” in hyperlinks intended to entice readers to click on them. What comes to mind, especially after …
After digitizing libraries, translating knowledge?
Nine years ago I asked the question “Can we localize entire libraries?” In the wake of the National Library of Norway‘s (Nasjonalbiblioteket) digitization of its holdings and collaboration with Nigeria on materials in the latter’s languages, it …
AI & the self-driving resume: 3. How AI might work for job seekers & recruiters
This is the third of 3 posts on “AI & the self-driving resume”
The previous two posts1 have looked at the current state of the job market and why applications of artificial intelligence (AI) could make it function better …
AI & the self-driving resume: 2. The resume & the market
This is the second of 3 posts on “AI & the self-driving resume”
In a sense, the job market is really a market in resumes, even though a real person – someone seeking a job, a potential employee – is …
AI & the self-driving resume: 1. The future of the job market
This is the first of 3 posts on “AI & the self-driving resume”
There’s lots of speculation these days about how robots and artificial intelligence (AI)* might further transform the way we work or drive a new industrial age…