Tag Archives: Bruce Schneier
Using AI to fight misinformation
In his latest newsletter, Bruce Schneier springboarded off of articles in Washington Post and The Atlantic to write: There’s a balance between the cost of the thing, and the cost to destroy the thing, and that balance is changing dramatically. … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm
Tagged artificial intelligence, Bruce Schneier, ChatGPT o3, disinformation, fake news, journalism, open source, science journalism
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Who funds quantum research?
An odd little detail in a Physics World piece on Microsoft’s claim to have made a working topological qubit: Regardless of the debate about the results and how they have been announced, researchers are supportive of the efforts at Microsoft to produce a … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged artificial intelligence, Bruce Schneier, Drew Weissman, drug development, Katalin Karikó, Majorana 1, Microsoft Research, mRNA vaccines, Nathan Sanders, Normal Eisen, Physical Review B, Physics World, public AI, public quantum, quantum computing, quantum technologies, topological qubit, Winfried Hensinger
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View from the beanstalk
In early 2015, I developed an unlikely hobby: tinkering around with hosting solutions on the web, specifically providers of infrastructure as a service (IaaS). It’s unlikely because it’s not something I consciously inculcated; it just happened. Three years later, this hobby … Continue reading
Posted in Tech
Tagged Amazon Web Services, Bruce Schneier, Digital Ocean, IaaS, John Gruber, Linode, managed hosting, virtual private network, WordPress
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