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• Bookmark Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall - Nautilus

  Let me start by saying a few things that seem obvious,” Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather” of deep learning, and one of the most celebrated scientists of our time, told a leading AI…

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  People assume that adjusting to climate change means giving up stuff we want. But what if it means giving up things we’re well rid of?

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  People assume that adjusting to climate change means giving up stuff we want. But what if it means giving up things we’re well rid of?

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  A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

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• Bookmark The People Cheering for Humanity’s End - The Atlantic

  With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel Foucault heralded a new way of thinking that would transform the humanities and social sciences.

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• Bookmark ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get…

  A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

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• Bookmark The People Cheering for Humanity’s End - The Atlantic

  With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel Foucault heralded a new way of thinking that would transform the humanities and social sciences.

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• Ask Metafilter Creative and/or weird uses and abuses of Twitch streaming I am interested in innovative, creative uses and/or abuses of the Twitch streaming platform. Streamers who have used the platform as a creative medium, regardless of its (main) intention as a place for game streaming. Art and performance are what come to mind,…

  November 17 2022, 7:11am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Black Swan events disrupting or delaying (pop) cultural releases I am looking for examples of (pop) cultural events/releases that were delayed or cancelled because an unforeseeable event eerily echoed their content in some way. For instance, I just discovered that Kylie Minogue's 6th album 'Impossible Princess' was delayed by almost a year…

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  Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can’t imagine having read in any other place, or at any…

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• Bookmark The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet - The Atlantic

  Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can’t imagine having read in any other place, or at any…

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• Bookmark Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall - Nautilus | Science Connected

  Let me start by saying a few things that seem obvious,” Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather” of deep learning, and one of the most celebrated scientists of our time, told a leading AI…

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• Bookmark The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism - In These Times

  Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to draw historic parallels…

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• Bookmark The Return of the Face

  Physiognomy — the attempt to interpret a person’s character by means of their face — was one of those things that educated 19th-century Europeans knew wasn’t supposed to work. In his…

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• Syllabus Cache MYCOTA

  General Watch A. Fantastic Fungi, Louis Schwartzberg (2019) B. Let things Rot, Mateo Barrenengoa (2021) Listen A. Welcome to Mushroom Hour B. Mushroom Revival Read A. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake B. The Mushroom at the End of…

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• Bookmark Please Stop Calling Things Archives | Perspectives on History | AHA

  Various disciplinary “archival turns” over the course of the past few decades have resulted in a tendency towards the over-casual use of the word “archive” as a shorthand to refer to,…

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• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

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  I want most of the things you do. But let's just agree that the Left is broken too.

  

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• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

  April 1 2020, 4:53pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Survivorship bias - Wikipedia Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to false conclusions in…

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• Syllabus Cache Worlds || Fall 2019 - Ahmed Ansari - Medium

  This 7 week studio mini will deal with designing at the intersection of three things: developing rich worlds, i.e. experiences and narratives, understanding how different mediums work and what they do, and understanding how genres work in terms…

  August 22 2019, 7:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Appropriating the Alien: A Critique of Xenofeminism | Mute

  The Xenofeminist Manifesto claims, among many things, rationalism and technology as core to a renewed futurist feminist project. However, given the provenance of its moniker and its 'pro-enlightenment' position, Annie Goh asks, WTF…

  August 6 2019, 11:11am | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

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  Artificial intelligence researchers have a big problem. Even as they design powerful new technologies, hackers are figuring out how to trick the tech into doing things it was never meant to…

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  My father’s family came to the US in the 1930s, a Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany. My life has gone well, and I suppose I should be grateful for the way…

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• Bookmark Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall - Nautilus

  Let me start by saying a few things that seem obvious,” Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather” of deep learning, and one of the most celebrated scientists of our time, told a leading AI…

  March 29 2024, 2:47pm | Comments

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  November 22 2023, 6:27pm | Comments

• Bookmark http://www.washingtonpost.com

  People assume that adjusting to climate change means giving up stuff we want. But what if it means giving up things we’re well rid of?

  April 18 2023, 4:53am | Comments

• Bookmark What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance?

  People assume that adjusting to climate change means giving up stuff we want. But what if it means giving up things we’re well rid of?

  April 18 2023, 12:53am | Comments

• Bookmark ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get…

  A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

  December 12 2022, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The People Cheering for Humanity’s End - The Atlantic

  With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel Foucault heralded a new way of thinking that would transform the humanities and social sciences.

  December 12 2022, 6:53am | Comments

• Bookmark ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get…

  A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the…

  December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments

• Bookmark The People Cheering for Humanity’s End - The Atlantic

  With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel Foucault heralded a new way of thinking that would transform the humanities and social sciences.

  December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Creative and/or weird uses and abuses of Twitch streaming I am interested in innovative, creative uses and/or abuses of the Twitch streaming platform. Streamers who have used the platform as a creative medium, regardless of its (main) intention as a place for game streaming. Art and performance are what come to mind,…

  November 17 2022, 7:11am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Black Swan events disrupting or delaying (pop) cultural releases I am looking for examples of (pop) cultural events/releases that were delayed or cancelled because an unforeseeable event eerily echoed their content in some way. For instance, I just discovered that Kylie Minogue's 6th album 'Impossible Princess' was delayed by almost a year…

  October 17 2022, 9:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet - The Atlantic

  Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can’t imagine having read in any other place, or at any…

  July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet - The Atlantic

  Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can’t imagine having read in any other place, or at any…

  July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments

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  April 22 2022, 6:07am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  most things cis women consider ~*self care*~ are just gender-affirming practices...

  

  April 16 2022, 10:57am | Comments

• Bookmark Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall - Nautilus | Science Connected

  Let me start by saying a few things that seem obvious,” Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather” of deep learning, and one of the most celebrated scientists of our time, told a leading AI…

  April 13 2022, 6:51pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 31 2022, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism - In These Times

  Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to draw historic parallels…

  February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments

• Bookmark The Return of the Face

  Physiognomy — the attempt to interpret a person’s character by means of their face — was one of those things that educated 19th-century Europeans knew wasn’t supposed to work. In his…

  November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 6 2021, 10:00am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache MYCOTA

  General Watch A. Fantastic Fungi, Louis Schwartzberg (2019) B. Let things Rot, Mateo Barrenengoa (2021) Listen A. Welcome to Mushroom Hour B. Mushroom Revival Read A. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake B. The Mushroom at the End of…

  September 24 2021, 5:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Please Stop Calling Things Archives | Perspectives on History | AHA

  Various disciplinary “archival turns” over the course of the past few decades have resulted in a tendency towards the over-casual use of the word “archive” as a shorthand to refer to,…

  March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen

  What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

  September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments

• YouTube

  September 7 2020, 8:00am | Comments

• Twitter

  I want most of the things you do. But let's just agree that the Left is broken too.

  

  June 30 2020, 3:30am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Longform Podcast #386: Ed Yong · Longform

  Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing societal…

  April 1 2020, 4:53pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Survivorship bias - Wikipedia Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to false conclusions in…

  February 23 2020, 12:37pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Worlds || Fall 2019 - Ahmed Ansari - Medium

  This 7 week studio mini will deal with designing at the intersection of three things: developing rich worlds, i.e. experiences and narratives, understanding how different mediums work and what they do, and understanding how genres work in terms…

  August 22 2019, 7:47am | Comments

• Bookmark Appropriating the Alien: A Critique of Xenofeminism | Mute

  The Xenofeminist Manifesto claims, among many things, rationalism and technology as core to a renewed futurist feminist project. However, given the provenance of its moniker and its 'pro-enlightenment' position, Annie Goh asks, WTF…

  August 6 2019, 11:11am | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

• Bookmark Hackers used stickers to fool a Tesla, highlighting the risks of AI…

  Artificial intelligence researchers have a big problem. Even as they design powerful new technologies, hackers are figuring out how to trick the tech into doing things it was never meant to…

  April 16 2019, 11:46am | Comments

• Bookmark BBC - Future - Why catastrophes can change the course of humanity

  My father’s family came to the US in the 1930s, a Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany. My life has gone well, and I suppose I should be grateful for the way…

  April 16 2019, 11:46am | Comments

• Instagram Remembering what things were like before Brexit

  March 23 2019, 7:03am | Comments

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