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• Bookmark DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by…

  You have full access to this article via your institution. An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language…

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• Bookmark Rise of the machines: new book shows how revolutionary AlphaZero is |…

  The eye-catching victory of AlphaZero, the artificial-intelligence program that taught itself to play chess, over the No 1 computer engine Stockfish, has evoked comparisons with human legends.

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• Bookmark Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as…

  There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of…

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• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

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• Bookmark AlphaGo, Lee Sedol, and the Reassuring Future of Humans and Machines -…

  Midway through the first of five recent matches between Lee Sedol, a top-ranked professional Go player, and AlphaGo, a computer program conceived by Google DeepMind, an odd thing happened: Lee’s jaw…

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• Bookmark At Synthorx, Synthetic Biologists Put Artificial Life Forms to Work | MIT…

  In the May 15, 2014, edition of the journal Nature, Floyd Romesberg’s chemistry lab at San Diego’s Scripps Research Institute published a paper titled “A Semi-Synthetic Organism with an Expanded Genetic…

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• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

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• Ask Metafilter Monkey sexual politics documentary scene A few years ago I watched a David Attenborough nature doc in which he narrated a scene that took place in an ancient, overgrown jungle temple. An alpha male monkey was surrounded by females, and a smaller, cheeky, male monkey waited nearby. A…

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• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

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• GLTI.CH Karaoke How to join the DOOM GLTI.CH WAN Party

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• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

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• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

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• Wikipedia Deleted articles with freaky titles Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

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• Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence

  Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

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  Claude Elwood Shannon's addition of a twenty-seventh letter to the alphabet

  June 25 2012, 8:33am | Comments

• Bookmark On the Natural History of Surveillance

  Upon hearing the phrase, we may not know exactly what a “cephalic sniffer” is, nor whether it is a real piece of technology. However, as to what such a nefarious device…

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• Bookmark Small is Beautiful: a discussion with AAAARG architect Sean Dockray

  One of my favorite websites is the semi-obscure digital library known as AAAARG (don’t even try googling. You just get pirate-themed sites). The site is a sundry collection of critical documents…

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• Bookmark How Slate Edited History

  To test the effects of photographic editing on memory, Slate altered the content or context of five images. The first was a TV screen shot from President Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial,…

  May 28 2010, 4:30am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

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• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

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• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

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• Bookmark 3quarksdaily Philosophy Competition (Judged by Daniel Dennet)

  So, here it is, the final list that I am sending to Professor Dan Dennett, who will select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners: (in alphabetical order by blog name)…

  September 13 2009, 8:37am | Comments

• Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science

  “The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

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• Wikipedia Alphabetic principle - Wikipedia The alphabetic principle is the understanding that letters are used to represent speech sounds and that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken words. The alphabetic principle is the foundation of any alphabetic writing system, which is the most…

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  November 22 2023, 6:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by…

  You have full access to this article via your institution. An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language…

  July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Rise of the machines: new book shows how revolutionary AlphaZero is |…

  The eye-catching victory of AlphaZero, the artificial-intelligence program that taught itself to play chess, over the No 1 computer engine Stockfish, has evoked comparisons with human legends.

  April 11 2022, 12:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as…

  There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA and RNA that combine to express all of the traits and characteristics that make each of…

  August 18 2020, 6:13am | Comments

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  March 13 2020, 7:04am | Comments

• Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

  February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments

• Bookmark AlphaGo, Lee Sedol, and the Reassuring Future of Humans and Machines -…

  Midway through the first of five recent matches between Lee Sedol, a top-ranked professional Go player, and AlphaGo, a computer program conceived by Google DeepMind, an odd thing happened: Lee’s jaw…

  March 16 2016, 12:07am | Comments

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  January 27 2016, 9:58am | Comments

• Bookmark At Synthorx, Synthetic Biologists Put Artificial Life Forms to Work | MIT…

  In the May 15, 2014, edition of the journal Nature, Floyd Romesberg’s chemistry lab at San Diego’s Scripps Research Institute published a paper titled “A Semi-Synthetic Organism with an Expanded Genetic…

  November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: Women geeking out about geeky women Reclaiming the Nerdiverse [NSFW audio] is a fascinating hour-long discussion about women in science fiction and fantasy on the late night edition of the venerable BBC radio show Woman's Hour (podcast link). The host is Lauren Laverne, and her guests are author and…

  September 3 2015, 6:01am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Monkey sexual politics documentary scene A few years ago I watched a David Attenborough nature doc in which he narrated a scene that took place in an ancient, overgrown jungle temple. An alpha male monkey was surrounded by females, and a smaller, cheeky, male monkey waited nearby. A…

  June 3 2015, 1:20pm | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

  June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments

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  February 6 2014, 2:13pm | Comments

• GLTI.CH Karaoke How to join the DOOM GLTI.CH WAN Party

  January 23 2014, 6:30am | Comments

• Portfolio Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 4:12am | Comments

• Furtherfield Contributions Neither Here Nor Then: Thomson and Craighead at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

  June 14 2013, 3:12am | Comments

• Wikipedia Deleted articles with freaky titles Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

  November 14 2012, 4:50am | Comments

• Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence

  Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

  July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments

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  Claude Elwood Shannon's addition of a twenty-seventh letter to the alphabet

  June 25 2012, 8:33am | Comments

• Bookmark On the Natural History of Surveillance

  Upon hearing the phrase, we may not know exactly what a “cephalic sniffer” is, nor whether it is a real piece of technology. However, as to what such a nefarious device…

  June 15 2012, 5:21am | Comments

• Tumblr Alphaland

  May 6 2011, 3:14am | Comments

• Bookmark Small is Beautiful: a discussion with AAAARG architect Sean Dockray

  One of my favorite websites is the semi-obscure digital library known as AAAARG (don’t even try googling. You just get pirate-themed sites). The site is a sundry collection of critical documents…

  June 1 2010, 2:08pm | Comments

• Bookmark How Slate Edited History

  To test the effects of photographic editing on memory, Slate altered the content or context of five images. The first was a TV screen shot from President Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial,…

  May 28 2010, 4:30am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Opposition Paradigm (Together Again for the First Time)

  May 16 2010, 9:15pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code

  April 18 2010, 9:21pm | Comments

• Bookmark Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order

  In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space for…

  October 27 2009, 11:51am | Comments

• Bookmark 3quarksdaily Philosophy Competition (Judged by Daniel Dennet)

  So, here it is, the final list that I am sending to Professor Dan Dennett, who will select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners: (in alphabetical order by blog name)…

  September 13 2009, 8:37am | Comments

• Bookmark What Skepticism Reveals about Science

  “The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies, and in the end isn’t that the real truth? The…

  June 24 2009, 3:26pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Alphabetic principle - Wikipedia The alphabetic principle is the understanding that letters are used to represent speech sounds and that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken words. The alphabetic principle is the foundation of any alphabetic writing system, which is the most…

  September 3 2008, 11:01am | Comments

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