Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 176

Showtime: “Main Teri Dushman” from “Nagina” (1986)

*Sridevi is tearing it up in this supernatural item number where wicked snake-charming sadhus enchant her into dancing like a cobra. One of the greatest...

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Musica Globalista: stuff “Vice Italy” is listening to lately

*It’s a precious gift when you get a long list of ultra-hip music-product that you’ve own barely heard about, much less actually heard. “Human Dust...

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Deep Mind Alpha Zero’s “Immortal Zugzwang Game” against Stockfish

*If you’ve got fifteen minutes to spare for the royal game of chess, you should watch this. It’s Google’s deep learner neural net intuitively smothering...

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Functional Sovereignty

*Thats a nice new legal term of art. Like “surveillance marketing,” only all grown up and even more so. From territorial sovereignty into whatever it...

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Web Semantics: The Industrie 4.0 glossary

*That’s a pretty good English-language glossary considering that it was made up by Germans, and German bureaucrats from a federal ministry, to boot. http://www.plattform-i40.de/I40/Navig... Administration...

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Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures

*It’s a work of “think-tank fiction,” as the genre seems to have decided to call this sort of thing. *I don’t have any fiction in...

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Major oligarchs of modern Eastern Europe

*I’d be keen to see somebody do a similar profile of the many major oligarchs of the G-7 advanced industrial nations. If you’re an influential...

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New Products from Adafruit

*Okay, this video is more or less an ad, so I guess I’m simply running an Adafruit ad on the ol’ blog here, but (a)...

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AlphaZero versus Stockfish at chess

*Stockfish was the best computer program in the world at playing chess, but it’s up against a deep-learner neural net that taught itself to be...

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Cryptojacking WordPress

*Nice neologism, “cryptojack.” I remember when weblogs were simple, harmless little bundles of code By Catalin Cimpanu December 6, 2017 08:10 PM 0 Nearly 5,500...

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