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This talk aims to dive deeper into the topic of human behavior within the context of social engineering and security by leveraging interdisciplinary knowledge. We will look into the field for psychology, to help us better understand our universal hard-wiring, and into human intelligence (HUMINT) techniques. This will include how cognition and perception work, and how biopsychology and situational factors can influence the decision-making processes. This is the psychological layer that involves our basic hard-wiring and applies universally to all people.
But we will also discuss our individual behavioral wiring. This includes aspects such as personality, self-identity and past experiences as elements that make us unique. They are aspects helping to assess specific targets. Security professionals working with high-value targets will find this section particularly useful, as they will learn to read their targets in a more tailored way, find potentially exploitable weaknesses, as well as communicate with them in a more effective manner. Examples will be provided.
This talk aims to open some new horizons by introducing and initiating social engineers into new topics and behavioral science that will help them better serve the people they are ultimately trying to protect.
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Please see http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets12/ for further details.
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Background: I prepared this slide deck for a couple of “Big Data 101” guest lectures I did in February 2013 at New York University’s Stern School of Business and at The New School. They’re intended for a college level, non technical audience, as a first exposure to Big Data and related concepts. I have re-used a number of stats, graphics, cartoons and other materials freely available on the internet. Thanks to the authors of those materials.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) services on the AWS cloud bring deep learning (DL) technologies like natural language understanding (NLU), automatic speech recognition (ASR), image recognition and computer vision (CV), text-to-speech (TTS), and machine learning (ML) within reach of every developer. In this session, you will be introduced to several new AI services: Amazon Lex, to build sophisticated text and voice chatbots; Amazon Rekognition, for deep learning-based image recognition; and Amazon Polly, for turning text into lifelike speech. The opportunities to apply one or more of these DL services are nearly boundless and this session will provide a number of examples and use cases to help you get started.
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Join me to help prepare yourself for the radical changes just around the corner.
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https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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Building crowdsourcing applications
1. Building
crowdsourcing
applications
Simon Willison - simonwillison.net - @simonw
@media - 9th June 2010
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4. Crowdsourcing?
Let me just cop to the fact that
“crowdsourcing” is a stupid buzzword. But
like “blog” before it, sometimes it’s the stupid
term that sticks. For my purposes, it means
collaborating with the people who used to be the
silent audience to make something better than you
could make alone. - Derek Powazek
http://powazek.com/posts/2443
35. Background
June 2009
450,000 pages of expenses documents released
“Transparency” = dodgy scanned PDFs
One week notice - so one week to build it!
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42. Stuff that worked
The progress bar
Photos of the MPs
Releasing a small group of documents at first
Score boards (once we finally added them)
Especially the “top in last 48 hours” one
43. Stuff that didn't
Releasing everything else at once
Asking the wrong questions
Line items!
Too much time fighting scalability fires
Reporting tools were 24 hours too late
48. Goals
Find stuff our journalists cared about
Less boring data entry
Data coming out again from the start
Visible rewards for contributors
More digestible tasks
Better sense of activity by other people
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56. Lessons learned
Use Redis for random selections, not MySQL
Assignments made a huge improvement
The most important logic in a crowdsourcing
system is the next thing to review button
“Oldest first” pagination is critical
69. Lessons learned
Be flexible: your users may not share your
precise goals
Optimise for the fat head of your user base
Expose recent activity to site staff
Users will do almost anything for a medal!
70. Final thoughts
Don’t be afraid: even flawed crowdsourcing
systems produce fascinating results
Think hard about the questions you ask
Have a minimal barrier to entry
Get the next task logic right. Seriously.