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January 15, 2020

Identifying Exoplanets with Neural Networks

*Why not? Let’s face it, the sky has a lot of stars (…) Kepler did not observe a few stars in its second mission; it...

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On the subject of weaponized deep-fakes

*I’m thinking that a determined operator could spread about a thousand weaponized deep fakes in the time that it takes to plow through this text....

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Donald Knuth, Literate Programming, 1984

*The world is a place of many paths not-taken. Donald Knuth. “Literate Programming (1984)” in Literate Programming. CSLI, 1992, pg. 99. I believe that the...

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Afraid of the sky

*Everybody always thinks that the climate victims are somebody else. Sierra Club BY CLIVE HAMILTON | JAN 11 2020 Here in the Australian capital of...

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January 13, 2020

Gameplay is the new television

*We’ll see. At least we know that blogging is no big competitor (…) #2 – Gaming is Replicating the TV Package At the same time,...

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Meanwhile, in luckless Libya

“The eastern administration is supported by the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, France and Russia while the western government is backed by Turkey, Qatar and Italy.”...

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The post net.art world of the post Internet

*This is worth reading just for the fabulous pic of Olia Lialina. It’s Rhizome, so it’s gonna be pretty good no matter how weird it...

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism

*Well, it can’t get “post” fast enough for me. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism Editor(s): Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Jacob Wamberg Media of The Bloomsbury Handbook...

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Beltway think-tank AI policy recommendations

*I imagine something interesting would happen if these many stern recommendations were carried out. *I don’t see how it’s political possible in the current American...

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Web Semantics: Chinese Futurist Military Jargon

*Pretty standard futurist military stuff for 2020, just in ideograms. Also it’s probably meant for offshored unsinkable terraformed aircraft carriers in the South China Sea,...

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