7:00 – 4:00 ASRC MKT

• The process of building trust employs the exact methods of reinforcement learning. I think they are the same thing with different jargon.
• Distill
  • Distill is an academic journal in the area of Machine Learning. The distinguishing trait of a Distill article is outstanding communication and a dedication to human understanding. Distill articles often, but not always, use interactive media.
• Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence
  • By creating user interfaces which let us work with the representations inside machine learning models, we can give people new tools for reasoning.
• The Spatial Dimension of Online Echo Chambers About geography, but still worth remembering. TL;DR Geographic closeness enhanced echo chambers for Brexit. Based on hashtags.
• Promoting my Alignment in Social Interactions to Phlog. Done. Did a little cleanup on the neural coupling notes as well
• Chased down some definitions of what herding is, and dug up a few interesting papers:
  • Sheep in Sheep’s clothing: Why security seekers do not fight each other
  • Selfish-herd behaviour of sheep under threat
  • Solving the shepherding problem: heuristics for herding autonomous, interacting agents
  • Shepherding Behaviors
• And speaking of herding:
  • Russian bots targeted Clinton and Mueller leading up to collusion indictments
  • How the Kremlin Tried to Pose as American News Sites on Twitter
• And dimension reduction. Good day on science twitter!
  • Modeling Political Information Transmission as a Game of Telephone
    • Many individuals learn about politics from other people instead of directly from the media. While this could be a good way to reduce information costs, highly controlled lab experiments reveal that the information exchanged can be biased. These important lab experiments are so controlled, however, that they ignore the complexities of language inherent in real-world information transmission. In an effort to improve our understanding of how political information changes as it propagates from the media to one person to another, I conduct a novel online experiment in which I track information diffusion through individuals in communication chains. I then use content analysis to examine how the information is actually changing, finding that the amount of political information communicated decreases as the number of people in the chain increases. Furthermore, the information is increasingly distorted as the length of the chain increases.
• Back to the RB White paper. Done everything but the scenarios (and the components that come out of the scenarios). Sent a note to Aaron M. to see if he’d like to contribute to the academic use case.