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So today is National Video Games Day, apparently. I know, I know…I was waiting with bated breath for it too, because it’s not like video games are a vital part of my job and consume a generous fraction of my time every other day of the year. Because it’s not like money just seems to fly out of my wallet into a gaping corporate maw whenever I’m in the general vicinity of a gaming store. But whatever…now I sound like one of those misanthropes complaining about Valentine’s Day (which is a glorious holiday — fight me). So yay, National Video…
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MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory Intelligence and Decision Technologies Group yesterday unveiled a neural network capable of explaining its reasoning. It’s the latest attack on the black box problem, and a new tool for combating biased AI. Dubbed the Transparency by Design Network (TbD-net), MIT’s latest machine learning marvel is a neural network designed to answer complex questions about images. The network parses a query by breaking it down into subtasks that are handled by individual modules. If you asked it to determine the color of “the large square” in a picture showing several different shapes of varying size and color, for…
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This article aims to share a series of advices, stemming from lessons learned through designing for kids over a period of twelve years. There is one resounding lesson: kids are not just a target audience. They are interesting, complex beings with thoughts and dreams bigger than giant unicorns, and they possess a broad range of emotions. The only way to design something meaningful for them, is to get to know them on a level that forces “adult logic” into the back seat. From there we can start to understand and appreciate the incredible nature of the way they think and behave.…
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According to a report by Fast Company, Google is giving its popular bundled email client service, Inbox the axe early next year. In March 2019, we’ll have to say our goodbyes. First launched in 2014, Inbox was sort of the antithesis to its name. It was, on the one hand, the same thing as Gmail, at least from the backend. But from a user experience perspective, it offered a less-cluttered design that allowed users to “focus on what really matters,” according to early press material. It was built around mobile devices and perhaps for the first time, it eschewed the…
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