Social benefits and risks from AIWill it help or will it hurt?
The social benefit
The social risk
Some examples
Conclusion
There’s a lot of talk about the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence (AI). Some people believe that AI will make our lives better, while others fear that it could do harm. We’re not going to settle that debate here–but we will look at what some experts say about how AI might affect society in general.
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Only the bias is biasedTypes of bias
Impact of bias
What next?
Conclusion
Cognitive bias is a phenomenon that occurs when our brain processes information in a way that is systematically different from the way a rational, unbiased mind would. These biases can affect our decision-making, our perceptions and our memory, and they can have a significant impact on our lives.
Types of bias
There are many different types of cognitive biases, and they can be grouped into several categories. Some common types of cognitive biases include:
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JSON, MongoDB and rsyslog are on a boatJSON is standard
Nginx knows about @cee
Rsyslog is great. Its documentation is not.
That’s not all folks!
At the end
When dealing with log management, obvious solutions emerge earlier, often before you even discussed the purpose of the log management. We can discuss about ELK, Graylog, [...] Lire la suite
Too big to fall, not to failInternet is dead! Nope, just Facebook
No one has ever been fired for opting for IBM
You said to say Hardy!
Me, myself, and the Apocalypse
The late US election inspired me, mixed with several of my customers suffering from their providers’ failure, and led me to write this post to remind about the reality, and not someone’s reality.
When dealing with a provider, or selecting a one, you may thing about the consequences and his failure on your business: often, you’ll [...] Lire la suite
Let's walk in a minefieldAvant-Propos
Suit up !
I want to blacklist
That’s all folks
If you manage an infrastructure, you probably always know the same problem: how to properly manage the blacklisting of malicious IPs. If you are on hybrid infrastructures, without adequate equipment for firewalling, this question often arises all the more. And if you want to be proactive, by securing the whole platform, as soon as a machine detects abnormal behavior, it becomes critical.
Fortunately, an opensource tool, MineMeld, allows you to manage this situation, with a minimum of work.
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Are you a Person of Interest?In the last episode of…
Ok, that I’ve turned paranoid…
You shall not pass
It’s time now
Am I safe?
Of course, as an individual, you’re an interesting person. But are you a Person of Interest? By that I mean, are you a person that it is individually interesting to hack, or are you just a person who is immersed in the mass of data that the hacker has targeted? With the confinement and the video binge, the [...] Lire la suite
My neighbor is noisySome quick reminder
My noisy neighbor is named…
My neighbor moves me
Let me be!
Do you agree?
Don’t worry, I won’t discuss about my personal neighbors during the Covid-19 confinement. Lately, several of my customers had random and difficult-to-diagnose issues with their Cloud instances. As this is not related to a specific provider (some of them are using AWS while the others are using [...] Lire la suite
My neighbor is noisySome quick reminder
My noisy neighbor is named…
My neighbor moves me
Let me be!
Do you agree?
Don’t worry, I won’t discuss about my personal neighbors during the Covid-19 confinement. Lately, several of my customers had random and difficult-to-diagnose issues with their Cloud instances. As this is not related to a specific provider (some of them are using AWS while the others are using [...] Lire la suite
Feedback on a geo-rep GlustserFS 7.3 setupBut why ?
The setup
And then there’s the drama
Did you think it was over?
One more thing…
Recently, I had to build a geo-replicated GlusterFS setup and encountered a bunch of issues due to the not-so-up-to-date documentation and the unlucky thing. So much time spent reviewing things and discussing with the dev team over IRC. Here’s my (recent) life with a geo-replicated GlusterFS [...] Lire la suite
A virus ? An opportunity?Dependency on Asia…
Dependency on non-education of the lower classes
What about…
And so?
Your opportunity ?
While the world is watching as much news about the spread of Coronavirus as it is taking its temperature, business discussions are revolving around the global economic slowdown, forcing the various Central Banks and other financial organizations to meet to agree on “solutions”. What if the situation is actually [...] Lire la suite
