For those of you who do not know what this means: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has been under fire for proposing new so-called “open Internet” or “net neutrality” rules that would allow content companies to pay broadband providers for faster Internet speeds delivering their traffic as long as deals are deemed “commercially reasonable.” […]
My girlfriend (Jenny) was posed the following question in her upper level Neuroscience course (paraphrased): Do humans have “free will” or are their actions predetermined by a system of algorithms encoded in their brain? Her response is the following: Ultimately, I believe that humans are prisoners to algorithmic systems that determine our choices – however, […]
Recently, I have been doing some work for my senior thesis/project related to computer vision. One particular thing I found interest, but opted against pursing was determining man made objects. There are already several methods to do this, however I thought of a fun twist that would work for a senior thesis. Although, I decided to […]