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I Am Sitting in a Room but cloning dogs over and over until they turn into hairy living blobs

March 4 2018, 6:19am | Comments
Podcast Cache The World of Wakanda - Open Source with Christopher Lydon
The World of Wakanda Black Panther, the movie, is heading toward $1-billion at the box office on just its third weekend. Already it seems that commercial success is likely not what Black Panther will be remembered for. It…

March 2 2018, 5:21am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Teaching the Intersection Between Classics, Anthropology, and Colonialism – Everyday…
It is no scoop for anyone that many academic disciplines were born in Europe during the Age of Empires. It is certainly the case of Classics and other Antiquity-related specialities. It is, also, the case of Anthropology.

February 26 2018, 9:09am | Comments
Bookmark Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online - The Verge
In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over…

February 8 2018, 7:07am | Comments
Bookmark Asking the Right Questions About AI – Yonatan Zunger – Medium
In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world. Self-driving cars will keep us alive; social media bubbles…

February 8 2018, 7:07am | Comments
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February 7 2018, 12:19am | Comments
Bookmark The Search for the Next Chess Prodigy - The Ringer
Anatoly Karpov, the 66-year-old former World Chess Champion, was comfortable playing chess underneath the bright lights and in front of the cameras on a television studio set. His opponent, Mikhail “Misha”…

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark The Japanese words for "space" could change your view of the world…
When you are the first person to arrive in a meeting room, do you think of it as being empty or full? If you were raised in the West, a meeting…

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now -…
In December, Motherboard discovered a redditor named 'deepfakes' quietly enjoying his hobby: Face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers’ bodies.

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark The Google Arts & Culture App and the Rise of the “Coded…
A few days ago, I came across an old post on the Web site Bored Panda called “10+ Times People Accidentally Found Their Doppelgängers in Museums and Couldn’t Believe Their Eyes.”…

January 30 2018, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey & Company
Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will. Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016.

December 13 2017, 4:26am | Comments
Bookmark Ursula K. Le Guin Explains How to Build a New Kind of…
By Ursula K. Le Guin These are some thoughts about utopia and dystopia. The old, crude Good Places were compensatory visions of controlling what you couldn’t control and having what you…

December 6 2017, 10:19pm | Comments
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The alien leaps! The solid restraint field gives fluid utterances. The microphones arise! https://t.co/7ZrfmeXT3T

November 26 2017, 2:25pm | Comments
Bookmark The Zombie Diseases of Climate Change - The Atlantic
What lurks in the Arctic’s thawing permafrost? From the air, the coast of Greenland appears vast and tranquil. Hundreds of fjords, their surfaces a mirror of blue sky and cloud bottoms,…

November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments
Bookmark New Species May Arise From Random Mutations | Quanta Magazine
Honeycreepers, small birds inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands, have a rich assortment of beak shapes. Some species have long, thin beaks suited to plucking insects from leaves. Others possess thick beaks good…

November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments
Bookmark Inside Artificial Intelligence's First Church | WIRED
Levandowski’s church will enter a tech universe that’s already riven by debate over the promise and perils of AI. Some thinkers, like Kevin Kelly in Backchannel earlier this year, argue that…

November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments
Bookmark I was depressed, anxious, and on the verge of suicide… then Zelda:…
Until that night, I thought scary was airplane turbulence. I thought it was telling that one girl how much you like her. I thought it was movies about dudes who wear…

November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments
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"I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale."

November 26 2017, 9:35am | Comments
Bookmark Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods…
A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end If you wanted relief…

November 26 2017, 7:31am | Comments
Bookmark Grasshopper found embedded in Vincent Van Gogh's Olive Trees painting
Museum curators have made a surprise discovery in Vincent Van Gogh's Olive Trees: a grasshopper embedded in the paint. The experts from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City discovered…

November 26 2017, 7:31am | Comments
Bookmark Why the Western philosophical canon is xenophobic and racist | Aeon Essays
Mainstream philosophy in the so-called West is narrow-minded, unimaginative, and even xenophobic. I know I am levelling a serious charge.

November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark Resisting Reduction Manifesto: against the Singularity, for a "culture of flourishing" /…
Joi Ito's Resisting Reduction manifesto rejects the idea of reducing the world to a series of computable relationships that will eventually be overtaken by our ability to manipulate them with computers…

November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark How imperialism still stops Britain from grasping how it looks to the…
You have now reached your limit of 3 free articles in the last 30 days. But don't worry! You can get another 7 articles absolutely free, simply by entering your email…

November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark Inspired by brain’s visual cortex, new AI utterly wrecks CAPTCHA security |…
Computer algorithms have gotten much better at recognizing patterns, like specific animals or people's faces, allowing software to automatically categorize large image collections. But we've come to rely on some things…

November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark How Neanderthals influenced human genetics at the crossroads of Asia and Europe…
When the ancestors of modern humans migrated out of Africa, they passed through the Middle East and Turkey before heading deeper into Asia and Europe.

November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods…
A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end If you wanted relief…

November 20 2017, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark Grasshopper found embedded in Vincent Van Gogh's Olive Trees painting
Museum curators have made a surprise discovery in Vincent Van Gogh's Olive Trees: a grasshopper embedded in the paint. The experts from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City discovered…

November 20 2017, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark Why the Western philosophical canon is xenophobic and racist | Aeon Essays
Mainstream philosophy in the so-called West is narrow-minded, unimaginative, and even xenophobic. I know I am levelling a serious charge.

November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Resisting Reduction Manifesto: against the Singularity, for a "culture of flourishing" /…
Joi Ito's Resisting Reduction manifesto rejects the idea of reducing the world to a series of computable relationships that will eventually be overtaken by our ability to manipulate them with computers…

November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark How imperialism still stops Britain from grasping how it looks to the…
You have now reached your limit of 3 free articles in the last 30 days. But don't worry! You can get another 7 articles absolutely free, simply by entering your email…

November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments
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November 14 2017, 8:44am | Comments
Portfolio NXS Issue #2 Synthetic Selves

November 10 2017, 7:18am | Comments

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