In about 6 weeks, Google will enable digital fingerprinting across devices. Naturally, e-marketers think this is a great idea.
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The Prodigy Paradox. Maybe it's better to be a generalist knowledge rather than a deep but narrow specialization?
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A retrospective of Steve Jobs and charisma. Truly amazing what he was able to accomplish, but at what cost?
This is a well-recognized problem with technological utopias: goods that are simple and elegant to use are often difficult and dangerous to make.
Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital. This article suggests that a hidden consequence of depriving some children of challenging education is that they never get to develop cognitive endurance, which would serve them well as adults.
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This indicates that the experience of effortful thinking itself—even when devoid of any subject content—improves general cognitive capacity. ....indicating that an additional year of schooling improves cognitive endurance, but only in higher-quality schools. Our findings suggest that schooling disparities may further disadvantage poor children by hampering the development of a core mental capacity.
When you change the world and no one notices. This is true – sometimes the recognition that something profound has been achieved doesn't happen for years. This happened with the World Wide Web, too.
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A couple years ago, it seemed that every AI enthusiast was into vector databases. Now, not so much. What happened? Embeddings. These are similar to vector databases, but they store the results of data trained on a deep learning network.
OpenAI is a vast network of datacenters with embeddings.
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Arson wars. Now the homeless in Portland are setting fires to each others' tents for revenge. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Washington's new governor opposes a wealth tax. Guess he saw the light, or something. Yeah, it's not going to produce the revenue they thought it might produce.
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