The Straits Times

Finding love on LinkedIn: Why are more singles giving it a shot?

SINGAPORE – On freelance photographer and videographer Eugene Tan’s LinkedIn profile picture sits a familiar ring styled after the professional networking platform’s “Open To Work” badge. Except, ...
Seeking Alpha

Shiller P/E Hits Dot-Com Bubble Levels - Warning Or Noise?

The S&P 500's Shiller P/E (CAPE) ratio is near dot-com-era highs, signaling potential overvaluation. While CAPE's predictive power is debated, the current forward P/E of 21x also suggests elevated ...
The Daily Telegraph

Sir Tony Hoare, software designer who developed Quicksort, the industry standard for sorting lists

Returning to England in 1960, he joined the computer firm Elliott Brothers, where one of his first tasks was to write an algorithm for a sorting method known as a “shell sort”. The story goes that he ...
The Guardian

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots I am a science-fiction writer, which means that my job is to ...
R Street Institute

Regulating Algorithmic Content Distribution and Moderation by Online Platforms

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

I tried to outsmart the social media algorithm. Here's how it outsmarted me

Armed with a burner phone and a fake name, I set out to learn how Instagram’s algorithm really works. This is what happened next At some point — let's say a Wednesday night around 8:40pm, too late to ...
Paste

Generative AI is Turning Publishing Into a Swamp of Slop

Here’s a test for you: Visit Amazon or any other site selling books, search for a random title, and see how long it takes for an obviously AI-generated entry to appear. Browse the recommended titles ...
NCAA

College basketball's NET rankings, explained

The 2024-25 men's basketball season marks the seventh season of the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings, which replaced the RPI prior to the 2018-19 season as the primary sorting tool for evaluating ...
InfoWorld

GitHub Copilot: Everything you need to know

GitHub Copilot has pushed AI-assisted programming well beyond code generation and code chat, with new capabilities continuing to arrive at a rapid pace. In 2014, Microsoft Research released an ...
The Straits Times

A chance to connect with Gen Zs: Singapore employers turning to TikTok as recruitment tool

SINGAPORE – TikTok’s algorithm steers Ms Eva Daneesyah to food recommendations, travel vlogs and the occasional stand-up comedy clip. So a May 2023 job advertisement by an ice-cream shop stood out to ...
Paste

Leigh Bardugo Effortlessly Steps Into a New Genre with Historical Fantasy The Familiar

Popular fantasy author Leigh Bardugo is primarily known for her Grishaverse series, high fantasy YA novels about a magical subclass who can manipulate matter at its most fundamental levels. Full of ...
Fair Observer

Are Addiction-Inducing Algorithms in Social Media Lawful?

Addiction to social media applications is a growing concern worldwide. There is not yet a consensus on how severe and widespread the problem is; socioeconomic, technological, cultural and even ...