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A book to support the INFO 200 Intellectual Foundations of Information course.
This was an excellent and fascinating history of the nuances of "bias" in access to credit, and the role of data and algorithms in it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/throughline/id1451109634?i=1000611644274 Ultimately, it's a story...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/27/podcasts/the-daily/social-media-instagram-tiktok-utah-ban.html The EU law is called the "Children's Code"
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sway/id1528594034?i=1000594235638 There's a fascinating discussion about the tradeoff of it in classrooms.
Add Hard Fork interview with StableAI CEO. Fascinating interview, well worth a listen. Talks about amplification, intent, neutrality, decentralization, content ownership. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/podcasts/generative-ai-is-here-who-should-control-it.html?action=click&module=audio-series-bar®ion=header&pgtype=Article
This is a nice study on call out culture and harassment: https://haesookim.info/assets/files/cscw22_callout.pdf Well worth citing in the Social Media chapter.
The chapter should discuss: * Statistics * Data analysis * Business intelligence
I made a dark mode version of the ASCII image. When dark mode is activated it will use the appropriate image.
The contrast isn't great.
@orcmid reports: > Um, sorry, ASCII was not the first such encoding. It's also a 7-bit encoding. ASCII was relatively late and as described, was an American (that is, USA)...
> The latest version of this encoding is [IEEE 754|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754], which defines an encoding called floating-point numbers, which reserves some number of bits for the "significand" (the number before the...
