Month: February 2017

Reducing controversy by connecting opposing views

~ Adrian Colyer ~ 7 Comments
Reducing controversy by connecting opposing views Garimella et al., WSDM 2017 Society is often polarized by controversial issues that split the population into groups with opposing views. When such issues emerge on social media, we often observe the creation of ‘echo chambers’, i.e., situations where like-minded people reinforce each other’s opinion, but do not get ... Continue Reading

Learning to protect communications with adversarial neural cryptography

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Learning to protect communications with adversarial neural cryptography Abadi & Anderson, arXiv 2016 This paper manages to be both tremendous fun and quite thought-provoking at the same time. If I tell you that the central cast contains Alice, Bob, and Eve, you can probably already guess that we're going to be talking about cryptography (that ... Continue Reading