linkedin post 2019-09-11 05:20:41

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HORIZONTAL COLLUSION. "When bots collude. Uber’s algorithm can lead to horizontal collusion if the algorithm gives rise to an “alternative universe” that pushes up prices based on the perceived market value of a ride, rather than its actual market value. A human need not be involved." https://lnkd.in/dNpdkZa View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-09-14 05:20:16

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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE concludes this weekend on a biological consideration of a sense of place, in particular for peripatetic creatures, whose destiny is to constantly migrate across the globe. These animals have acute geographical sense, and often migrate to very specific destinations, covering many thousands of miles to end up at the exact same nest, for instance, like the swallows in my home. Navigation and timing, cues, and fasting metabolism during transit, all are complex issues. View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-09-11 05:18:49

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FINE LINE COOPERATION. "Computers can't have a back-room conversation to fix prices, but they can predict the way that other computers are going to behave. And with that information, they can effectively cooperate with each other in advancing their own profit-maximizing interests." http://www.businessinsider.com/robots-colluding-to-manipulate-markets-2015-4 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-09-13 04:57:47

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NEURAL NETWORK PROGRAMMING. "AlphaGo cannot explain how it chooses its moves, but its programmers are more open than Deep Blue’s in publishing how it is built. Previous Go computer programs explore moves at random, but the new technology relies on a suite of deep neural networks." http://www.nature.com/news/digital-intuition-1.19230 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-09-11 05:15:23

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COMMUNICATION. "A peculiar feature of the Swarm-bot is that s-bots can exploit rich connection devices to self-assemble into various configurations, help each other, perform collective transportation, and even communicate to each other. This feature, which is exploited by several social insects, provides an additional dimension to collective robotics where interactions among robots are often virtual or take place through pushing actions." https://lnkd.in/dtgsM9s View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-09-13 04:55:56

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ALPHAGO CHAMPION. "On this week's issue of Nature, computer scientists at Google DeepMind in London unveil the successor to Deep Blue. It is a program called AlphaGo, and in October 2015 it beat the human Go champion of Europe by five games to zero. To put that into context, in Deep Blue’s time, a human beginner with just a week’s practice could easily defeat the best Go computer programs." http://www.nature.com/news/digital-intuition-1.19230 View in LinkedIn
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