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A rare interview with Hans Moravec at his home in Pennsylvania.
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> we don't only encounter art in a museum True, but the TFA's first line reads: Most of us walk through museums reading the little labels and nodding.
The whole point of going to a…
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> spitting out verbatim text The New York Times lawsuit is resting on the point that large chunks of undigested articles can be vomited out. OpenAI tried to have the lawsuit thrown out but the cour…
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Museum labels are supposed to be designed to deliver the take-away point that the curator wants to make. Asking museum goers to learn how to read paintings is a poor workaround. The classic guide to w…
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TLDR; a Chicago-area schoolteacher was able to find the rights to the old Backyard Baseball PC game from the 1990s, and she commissioned a software game development company and a still-live fan base, …
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Wow, that's a great article about color! It answers many questions. Thanks for the link.
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From the article: Risk is rising as big tech companies like Oracle — the ultimate financial source of the Ellison media empire — need to turn to the bond market for staggering sums to finance data cen…
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> STOP spending on immigration programs... to improve situation for kids of the people who built out the western civilization The common misconception that the US Government is wasting money on imm…
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I think parent is referring to the film in the novel, also named Infinite Jest. The film is so compelling that its viewers lose all interest in anything other than repeatedly viewing it, and thus even…
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I would've liked to read more about what they're doing, but their website fab2.com is unhelpful. Very little info, presented in pointless swirling animations that hijack your scroll action.
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The article is only a brief summary that cannot do justice to the incredible story of the Koh-i-Noor diamond. I have been doing some research on it, and IMO the most modern and accurate take is the bo…
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A wise article! It's not about Bourdain at all, but about all of us--- how we live a life unexamined, and how to stop doing so.
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From the article: "Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, said... “All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people.”" "Since …
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Yes, it's an outstanding book, well worth reading: Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, by Marc Reisner, Penguin Books, 1986, 1993. A recent perspective on this excellen…
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My human-written summary: Most people are ego-driven and won't listen to your logical arguments. They will only get angry with you even if you're right. So don't argue with them. Give a…
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From the article: "Financial surveillance by law enforcement is far from unheard of, but it wouldn’t be normal to see agents use it in this way. For instance, ICE in particular once had widesprea…
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> technically... you can be sure there's ed Unfortunately, ed has been omitted from the default installation of recent debians, at least. I had to install it manually.
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Since I don't see it mentioned yet in the comments: In 2011, movie studios created a digital ownership service called Ultraviolet. You could own titles in your "UltraViolet Digital Rights Lo…
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> negative productivity Every indicator says that shareholders or managers have no idea what improves or degrades productivity, unfortunately. It’s all based on vibes. Executives get the benefit of…