Category: technology
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This Week I Learned – Issue 3
Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering Lectures are online Professor Ross Anderson, of the Security Engineering book, has put his new Security Engineering Lecture videos online. The lectures cover the following topics – who security adversaries are, formal threat models and security policies, banking and payment security, security economics, security psychology (including usability), network security, hardware security,…
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This week I learned – Issue 2
By 2050 UX professionals will be 1% of world population In 2017, Jakob Nielsen of NN/g predicted that by 2050, there would be 100 million UX professionals worldwide (aka 1% of the population). God help us, I sincerely hope this is not the case. Book – Human-in-the-loop ML & AI Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning Active learning…
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This Week I Learned About – Issue 1
The Shavian alphabet On Wednesday I saw a Toot in a beautiful script I did not recognise. It looked like this: ๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ค๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฑ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ ยท๐๐ผ๐ฏ๐ธ๐ Tyers. ๐ฒ ๐ค๐ฒ๐ ยท๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฉ๐, ๐ฃ๐จ๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ฏ Tayto ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐๐. which says Hello my name is Bernard Tyers. I like Guinness, ham sandwiches and Tayto crisps. from the to Shavian…
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Who is doing the work here?
The advertisements on London Transport seem to be focus on promoting: This advertisement for deliveroo – who is talking here? The language in this ad is mis-communicating the work needed, and who is actually doing the work. It reads like the conversation we’ve all had. Maybe between two people, a couple or housemates, who share…
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The Anti-Javascript Javascript Club
The Anti-Javascript Javascript Club. #fosdem2024 #anti-javascript
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Jobs listings who wants RSS feeds?
(Reposting blogposts from many years ago.) As some people know, I work for a jobs advertisment/search site. I have been raising RSS feeds, and the whole idea of using RSS feeds for jobseekers. The idea has been receivedโฆIโll say that for sure At the moment, in Europe anyway, RSS feeds are not too popular for…