on Jun 28, 2020 09:39 am
One afternoon in August 2010, in a conference hall perched on the edge of San Francisco Bay, a 34-year-old Londoner called Demis Hassabis took to the stage.
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/deepmind-and-google-the-battle-to-control-artificial-intelligence
on Jun 28, 2020 01:39 am
Dabbawalla 4 minutes
https://aeon.co/videos/mumbai-s-amazing-lunch-couriers-bring-office-workers-home-cooked-meals-every-day
on Jun 27, 2020 07:39 pm
The planet has been knocked off its elliptical orbit and overheats as it hurtles toward the sun; the night ceases to exist, oil paintings melt, the sidewalks in New York are hot enough to fry an egg on, and the weather forecast is “more of the same, only hotter.
http://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-twilight-zone-from-a-to-z
on Jun 27, 2020 01:39 pm
Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the Egyptian singer. For other uses, see Umm Kulthum (name).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_Kulthum
on Jun 27, 2020 08:39 am
Baramulla, a city on the Jhelum River, thirty miles northwest of Srinagar, Kashmir. All photographs from Kashmir, August 2019 © Abid Bhat. Bhat’s work was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. One winter’s night in the Kashmir Valley, the power went out.
https://harpers.org/archive/2020/07/valley-of-unrest-kashmir-valley/
on Jun 27, 2020 08:39 am
Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new. “He hated America very deeply,” John le Carré wrote of his fictional Soviet mole, Bill Haydon, in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/06/america-image-power-trump/613228/
on Jun 27, 2020 08:39 am
Looking at Big Tech as the next Big Oil. In 2015, Nextdoor, the location-based social networking app, gained a reputation as a locus of racial profiling. Users were sending alerts for merely spotting hoodie-wearing Black men walking in their neighborhoods.
https://qz.com/1869239/how-ux-design-can-counter-racial-bias/
on Jun 24, 2020 09:39 pm
Machine learning is a system that learns as it receives new data, without being explicitly programmed, to carry out complex tasks quickly and efficiently. Facebook uses machine learning to generate the estimated action rate and the ad quality score used in the total value equation.
https://www.facebook.com/business/news/good-questions-real-answers-how-does-facebook-use-machine-learning-to-deliver-ads
on Jun 22, 2020 10:39 pm
When Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas last September, the small island of Abaco was among the hardest hit. Dorian stalled over the island for two days, unleashing some of the strongest winds ever recorded in the Caribbean.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-has-a-secret-disaster-relief-squad
on Jun 22, 2020 09:39 pm
Last year, nearly one third of Australian adults owned a smart speaker device allowing them to call on “Alexa” or “Siri”. Now, with more time spent indoors due to COVID-19, smart voice assistants may be playing even bigger roles in people’s lives. But not everyone embraces them.
https://theconversation.com/from-hal-9000-to-westworlds-dolores-the-pop-culture-robots-that-influenced-smart-voice-assistants-140341
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