The Soundex Algorithm in Python

This algorithm assigns identical codes to words or names which it thinks are pronounced the same. It's not brilliant but coding it in Python is an interesting project.

https://codedrome.substack.com/p/soundex-algorithm-python

Apparently Reid Hoffmann in his new book Superagency (probably with ChatGPT) writes that: ”Personalisation increases freedom”

No. Freedom is the abundance of choices. Algorithmic personalisation is the withering of choices, a removal of agency. Freedom from thinking, if anything!

This is Orwellian doublethink, and from a big US Democratic Party donor, too.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6wXDbcUCPUPZYXeGclecSv
#AI #algorithms #neoliberalism #superagency #bookstodon

Influencers and AI.

Stateline: Cities lead bans on algorithmic rent hikes as states lag behind. “Minneapolis on Thursday has become the fourth U.S. city to ban algorithmic rental price-fixing software, joining San Francisco, Philadelphia and Berkeley, California, in a growing wave of legislation aimed to protect renters from rental price-gouging. While momentum builds at the city level — with Portland, Oregon; […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/01/stateline-cities-lead-bans-on-algorithmic-rent-hikes-as-states-lag-behind/

Keylength - Cryptographic Key Length Recommendation https://www.keylength.com/ #cryptography #algorithms #parameter #security #compare #attack #length #method #level #key

"I worry much more about the human element being eradicated from people resigned to mimicking #algorithms

->The #Human Element. Chess as a metaphor for human #resilience in a world governed by algorithms

https://medium.com/p/6ba529e0f82a

#press #media #journalism

#ai #algorithms

Cavete - Please note: Context is more important than conmen

My post about signing the papers for selling my tesler now has over 14000 views on TikTok.

Why? Because so many dumb people keep posting insults and the algorithm keeps sending that thing forward..

Keylength - Compare all Methods https://www.keylength.com/en/compare/ #cryptography #algorithms #parameter #security #compare #attack #length #method #key

Infinite Music Machine is a project by Michael Forrest, a generative composition which arranges human-played loops algorithmically. Originally an iOS app, its output is now available online as a kind of endless radio station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nEegj2hD-w

"We, the undersigned researchers, affirm the scientific consensus that artificial intelligence (AI) can exacerbate bias and discrimination in society, and that governments need to enact appropriate guardrails and governance in order to identify and mitigate these harms. [1]

Over the past decade, thousands of scientific studies have shown how biased AI systems can violate civil and human rights, even if their users and creators are well-intentioned. [2] When AI systems perpetuate discrimination, their errors make our societies less just and fair. Researchers have observed this same pattern across many fields, including computer science, the social sciences, law, and the humanities. Yet while scientists agree on the common problem of bias in AI, the solutions to this problem are an area of ongoing research, innovation, and policy.

These facts have been a basis for bipartisan and global policymaking for nearly a decade. [3] We urge policymakers to continue to develop public policy that is rooted in and builds on this scientific consensus, rather than discarding the bipartisan and global progress made thus far."

https://www.aibiasconsensus.org/

#Google bought #Israeli #cybersecurity company #Wiz for $32 billion.

Staffed by ex Unit 8200 members, the #cyber spying arm of the #IDF that designed #algorithms that automated the #genocide of #Gaza & was also responsible for the #pagerattack in #Lebanon.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thegrayzone/p/google-imports-ex-israeli-spies-as

KI-Anzug für Rehabilitation nach Rückenmarksverletzungen

Die Universitätskliniken Erlangen und Heidelberg haben einen Anzug entwickelt, der die Rehabilitation nach Rückenmarksverletzungen erheblich verbessern soll.

#MachineLearning #AI #KI #Algorithms #Movement
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL2JyLmRlL2Jyb2FkY2FzdC9GMjAyNFdPMDEyMjQxQTAvc2VjdGlvbi8wODRmZjcwZS1hYTEyLTQ1ZTEtOTk0ZC1iNTJkNzlkN2NjMmY

https://youtu.be/bNOol5OTasw

On reward mechanism addiction and becoming more self-aware in that context.

#latetotheparty #late2theparty #fun #funny #video #short #gag #scetch #joke #jokes
Ja ich weiß die sind schon alt diese Videos, aber der #Youtube #algorithms hat sie halt jetzt erst in meine Timeline gespült und ich bin bestimmt nicht der einzige an dem diese #Schenkelklopfer vorbei gegangen sind. Viel Spaß mit den #SoundGuy #Videos von und mit Kevin James

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFH3phl5yd1WWTwZyLbn1tcCo0k-gB8BY&si=LU7UCPrdkWWt8Axt

"The best way to think of the slop and spam that generative AI enables is as a brute force attack on the algorithms that control the internet and which govern how a large segment of the public interprets the nature of reality. It is not just that people making AI slop are spamming the internet, it’s that the intended “audience” of AI slop is social media and search algorithms, not human beings.

What this means, and what I have already seen on my own timelines, is that human-created content is getting almost entirely drowned out by AI-generated content because of the sheer amount of it. On top of the quantity of AI slop, because AI-generated content can be easily tailored to whatever is performing on a platform at any given moment, there is a near total collapse of the information ecosystem and thus of "reality" online. I no longer see almost anything real on my Instagram Reels anymore, and, as I have often reported, many users seem to have completely lost the ability to tell what is real and what is fake, or simply do not care anymore.

There is a dual problem with this: It not only floods the internet with shit, crowding out human-created content that real people spend time making, but the very nature of AI slop means it evolves faster than human-created content can, so any time an algorithm is tweaked, the AI spammers can find the weakness in that algorithm and exploit it."

https://www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-brute-force-attack-on-the-algorithms-that-control-reality/

#Amazon accused of using #algorithms to push #warehouse workers to breaking point
Amazon has used tricks, algorithms, and #surveillance to discourage warehouse employees from #unionizing
"Weaponizing the Workplace: How Algorithmic Management Shaped Amazon's Antiunion Campaign in Bessemer, Alabama," was conducted by Teke Wiggin, a researcher at Northwestern University in the US. It's worth reading the full write-up if you have time; we'll summarize some of it here:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/amazon_algorithmic_worker_management/