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- How old things keep living; Impossible AI; Look, just call it AI … 54 year-olds who’re still working and that’s totally fine, too. Wikipedia reckons 600,000 of them were sold. Caught my attention because: Some great examples …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … It's the same mess that Wikipedia found itself in that it's trying to dig a hole out of -- who's to say what's notable and …
- Words and how to use them to achieve and convey your intended effect and meaning? … Russian-language Wikipedia is 29 gigabytes, English Wikipedia with images in 87 GB (or 47 GB without). Part of the reason due to the size difference is the …
- CAPTCHAs, Cryptography and Personhood … Technical Limitations , Wikipedia ↩︎ Speed limiter , Wikipedia ↩︎ Calculating Optical Fiber Latency , M2 Optics ↩︎ The Wolf Hunters of Wall Street , New York Times, Michael Lewis, March 31 2014 ↩︎ Mens Rea …
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15 … subpostmasters are expected to have their convictions overturned [ The Guardian/Press Association ] The wikipedia article about Horizon is like a Greatest Hits of everything that can go wrong …
- Get a cozy Data Tiny House, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive People … pronounced like fanshaw ), Wikipedia has a helpful (non-exhaustive, I might add) list of [irregularly spelt places in the United Kingdom] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of …
- Little things; Snow Crashing Ch 14 part 1 … I thought that was funny last time, because it’s a roundabout way of describing what we would now expect to be understood as a thumbnail, which Wikipedia …
- Snow Crashing … 2015’s Wikipedia text dump with all edit history was 10TB uncompressed , and in 2014, Wikimedia’s dataset (images, etc.) was about 24TB. (I invite my friends at …
- Judge social networks not by their DAUs but by the content of their CEO’s character … is still more expensive than the minimum wage in the UK. A reminder: Wikipedia says the UK was 5th worldwide in nominal GDP (after the US, China, Japan …
- Division by Infinity … Metcalfe's law as, uh, stated by Wikipedia, isn't about the *number* of unique connections in a network. It says that because connections are valuable (citation needed …
- The Generative Surplus … what does it mean when that generative capacity is just out there, *all the time* for whatever we want to apply it to? We explained Wikipedia away in …
- Portions Of This Consciousness Are Copyright … algorithm to its board - Marginal REVOLUTION [7] Visual cortex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [8] Broca's area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [9] Dan Hon is typing on Twitter …
- "Web" "Content" "Strategy"; "Probably Not"; Firewall Earth; To Clean The House … You should probably start with a Wikipedia grounding[2] that covers some of the cognitive biases and black holes we have in terms of risk perception. Anyway. I …
- Sketchy; Don't Call It Sharing; Walking Sensors, Contd.; 2014 (3) … Bots routinely monitor Wikipedia, a crowdsourced encyclopaedia for anonymous edits from governmental and corporate sources. Software routinely listens to uploaded audio/video files to mine for copyright infringement …
- Transparency Through Bot; Mundane Fictional Spytech; The Horizontal Arcology … you watch the Wikipedia page of recent changes[3], filter for the IP addresses that you're looking for, and then, poof - do whatever you want to do …
- The Material (4); More Ways Of Seeing … So what would the phone from Wikipedia look like? Or what would the phone from Wikileaks (ugh) look like? [1] Etherpeg [2] The Fire Phone at the farmers …
- The Cult of Making, Shooting Fish In Jean Michel Jarre's Barrel … And anyway, if we're really checking, Wikipedia also reckons that as of Q2 2013, 1,082mm Android phones have been sold[5]. So that's another $324 …