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Extreme Learning Machine
I read an interesting article “Extreme Learning Machine: A New Learning Scheme of Feedforward Neural Networks” (2004) about a new method of learning for a certain type of neural network. This Learning is applied for networks with a single layer (SNLP). The results According to the article, this method is clearly more effective in generalization ...
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The tragedy of democratic voting systems
A common issue in participatory/democratic infrastructures is the problem of aggregating individual preferences into a global one. Voting is often the most public and visible example of mass collective decision-making. Such problem of aggregation occurs in many different disciplines: in decision theory , in social choice theory & welfare economics and in artificial intelligence. In ...
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Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
I borrowed a Book “Weird Ideas That Work” from Sutton, Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford. As the title mentions, the book is about “weird ideas for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation”. This post is a summary taken from the executiveforum.net summary and reworked in ordered and bulleted lists.(NOTE: as the author cautions, believe each ...
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Most influential persons of the 20th century?
Carl Bosch Fritz Haber Which person had the greater impact in the 20th Century? Hitler, Gandhi, Einstein, etc. According to Nature [1], it is the duo Haber-Brosch because of their invention. Their Haber-Bosch process has often been called the most important invention of the 20th century as it “detonated the population explosion,” driving the world’s ...
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Attention in economics, sociology, information system, organisation
This short article is about the use of the notion of attention in 4 different cases. The goal is to understand that the notion of attention is a transversal notion, interesting not only for a cognition point of view, at the individual level but also that may have an impact in the design of models ...
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Human based Computation as a form of Currency to alleviate the world Poverty?
This post is a summary (+ some comments & further references) of a short paper “Secure Distributed Human Computation” in financial cryptography (2005) (the article is a position paper, so no mathematical at all compared to the previous one in machine learning [6]). Here the authors describe a new paradigm that some of you already ...
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Acoustic Cryptoanalysis
I decided to publish an old post from 2006. Better late than never. – Recently (I don’t remember how) I came accross an article (2004) [1] from Adi Shamir (the inventors of the RSA algorithm) and Eran Tromer about an original attack for encrypted messages based on the study of the sound produced by the ...
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IHM: du gadget à "Minority Report"
Quand j’étais à l’Université de Sydney, j’étais proche d’un laboratoire d’IHM (réalité augmentée, écran tactile, etc..). Un des projets en cours était le développement d’ une IHM nommée “tabletop” composée d’un table, de stylos spéciaux et d’un projecteur diffusant la vidéo sur la table. Une des applications qu’ils mettaient au point était de faire des ...
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Physics and Art
Quand la physique rejoint l’art: the Time Fountain, une surprenante utilisation de l’effet stroboscope!
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The French and European constitutions analyzed by a citizen
One year after the French “Non” for the European Constitution, I find an interesting text (in french) written by a teacher. It’s long and sometimes not neutral text. However it gives us some criteria that a right constitution should respect. The author takes the european and french constitutions as examples and analyze them for each ...