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The function of the imagination is notto make strange things settled, so much asto make settled things strange.– G.K. Chesterton Why is matrix multiplication defined so very differently from matrix addition? If we didn’t know these procedures, could we derive them from first principles? What might those principles be? This post gives a simple semantic …

Last month, the city’s newly formed joint city-community Reimagining Public Safety task force released its 2021 mid-year recommendations report. At over 70 pages long, the report’s proposals range from popular police reform policy changes to ideas that would fundamentally reshape the way the city operates. Early in the report, the task force makes its ambitions and worldview clear, …

The way in which we as people interact with technology is continuously evolving. When the permissions people grant to companies and organizations at one point in time become the gateway for everything that happens to that data in the future, that moment becomes extremely important, perhaps far beyond what could be envisaged. Given the ubiquity …

David Scola, acting chief executive, Americas & UK region, SWIFT Regulatory changes and technology innovations are driving change – not only at financial institutions, but also among their clients. Corporate and institutional clients are changing their business models, inspired by “heightened levels of enablement” in other aspects of their business and expecting payments to follow …

WITHIN A FEW hundred metres of Andy Way’s office on the second floor of the computing building on Dublin City University’s Glasnevin Campus, there are 70 people working away on machine translation.  “Even in Google, they wouldn’t have 70 people working on MT (machine translation),” Way, the deputy director of ADAPT and a professor in …