Month: December 2017
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Reuters Tracer combs Twitter for news
Reuters, the news agency that first scooped its rivals with the use of carrier pigeons, is seeing good results from an algorithm to sift through Twitter (over 12 million tweets/day, 2% of total volume) to search for signal in the noise. Reuters Tracer is the system summarized in MIT’s Technology Review, How Reuters’s Revolutionary AI…
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The week that was
Trying something new. A weekly wrap-up of sorts. The Austin headquarters for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission was overrun by “several hundred” rats. A Russian rocket launch went awry when the wrong directions were loaded into it’s flight plan and sent it to the bottom of the ocean. Meanwhile, the Voyager team dusted…