Stephen Downes

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Recent Posts

Towards a design philosophy for interoperable blockchain systems
Game of missuggestions: semantic analysis of search autocomplete manipulation
A neural conversation model
Natural language understanding (almost) from scratch
Goods: organizing Google’s datasets
The seven tools of causal inference with reflections on machine learning
Deep neural networks for YouTube recommendations
Interaction networks for learning about objects, relations and physics
Ground: A data context service
European Union regulations on algorithmic decision making and a “right to explanation”
Distributed deep neural networks over the cloud, the edge, and end devices
TrustBase: an architecture to repair and strengthen certificate-based authentication
Meltdown
Fairness without demographics in repeated loss minimization
Programming paradigms for dummies: what every programmer should know
Keeping CALM: when distributed consistency is easy
Establishing software root of trust unconditionally
Distributed consensus revised – Part I
Distributed consensus revised – Part II
Statistical foundations of virtual democracy
Futzing and moseying: interviews with professional data analysts on exploration practices