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AI today and tomorrow is mostly about curve fitting, not intelligence
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AI today and tomorrow is mostly about curve fitting, not intelligence
Important academic discussions around the 'intelligence' in AI are emerging. They help level set the reality of what's possible now and into the future. Here's your guide as to what is real and what's imagined.
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An Introduction to Data Science on the Linux Command Line
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The Power of One-State Turing Machines (2018)
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Mastercard Bans Automatic Billing After Free Trials
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Mastercard Bans Automatic Billing After Free Trials
The credit card company now requires merchants to get a cardholder's approval, via text or email, at the end of a trial before they start billing.
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The Sumatran rhino is now officially extinct in Malaysia
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BBC News
Malaysia's last known Sumatran rhino dies
The species is now extinct in Malaysia, with fewer than 100 animals believed to exist elsewhere.
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Consistent Technical Documents Using Emacs and Org Mode [video]
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YouTube
Consistent Technical Documents Using Emacs and Org Mode
Files used in the demo: https://gitlab.com/spudlyo/orgdemo
My dotfiles: https://gitlab.com/spudlyo/dotfiles
Read The Org: https://github.com/fniessen/org-html-themes
Read The Docs: https://sphinx-rtd-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing.html
Git from…
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Predicting Next Recession
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Bloomberg.com
US Recession Chances Surge to 38%, Bloomberg Economics Model Says
The risk of a recession in early 2023 has risen substantially
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Unconditional handouts benefit recipients and their neighbours
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The Economist
Unconditional handouts benefit recipients—and their neighbours too
Every dollar given to a household boosts local GDP by $2.60
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Stop Using Facebook
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The care and feeding of software engineers, or why engineers are grumpy (2012)
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Before buying Ring, WEMO or Roku, consider privacy issues
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USA TODAY
Before you buy, consider privacy, please
Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit behind the Firefox browser, posts an annual survey of the how popular tech products fare with privacy issues.
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Cory Doctorow on Reclaiming Technologies of Oppression
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Slate Magazine
Cory Doctorow on Reclaiming Technologies of Oppression
Who holds the power in tech?
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Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers
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Medium
CNAME Cloaking, the dangerous disguise of third-party trackers
An in-depth exploration of a new method used by tracking companies to disguise their third-party trackers as first-party trackers.
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Don Libes' Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool (2016)
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An 84-year-old Japanese app developer
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Nikkei Asia
Meet the 84-year-old Japanese app developer who inspired Tim Cook
Masako Wakamiya says it's never too late to learn about IT and finance
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Tesla Tripp Police Report Released
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PlainSite
The previously restricted $TSLA Tripp police report has been released. It's stunning. Pages 1-4, below.
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Pew Research: 2.2% of Americans produce 97% of political tweets
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Pew Research Center - U.S. Politics & Policy
Small Share of U.S. Adults Produce Majority of Political Tweets
The findings of this analysis paint a nuanced picture of just how prevalent political speech is among U.S. adults on Twitter.
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Music is universal and used in strikingly similar ways across the globe: study
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Newsweek
Music Is Universal, Used in 'Strikingly Similar Ways' Across the Globe
Researchers spent five years painstakingly creating a database which features music created by people around the world.
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Why Some People Are Impossibly Talented
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Bbc
Why some people are impossibly talented
Polymaths excel in multiple fields. But what makes a polymath – and can their cross-discipline expertise help tackle some of society’s most pressing challenges?
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Have scientists discovered a fifth force of nature?
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The Telegraph
Have scientists discovered a fifth force of nature?
A fifth force of nature could have been discovered after scientists carried out a "Nobel-prize worthy" experiment which could revolutionise our understanding of the world.
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X17 Particle
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