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July 7, 2019

Jargon-dissolver threatens to reveal what mankind actually knows about science

*It could be the end of everything we thought we knew, ladies and gentlemen. Instead of knowledge jealously guarded by centuries of specialized gobbledygook, statistical...

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Published on July 07, 2019 00:01

July 6, 2019

Ross Ulbricht’s first five years in prison

*Ross Ulbricht designed, created and ran the “Silk Road,” a colossal Bitcoin dark-market. He was very politically expressive about his ideological reasons for violating the...

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Published on July 06, 2019 00:03

Abject robot with AI jugaad

*This is the harbinger of a world where deep-learners are as cheap as dirt. https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/r... (…) Found materials robots like these are not likely to...

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Published on July 06, 2019 00:03

The ongoing death of the Fourth Estate

*This is a big social change that’s been going on for decades; even if Facebook and Google were to disappear, I don’t think journalism could...

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Published on July 06, 2019 00:03

Meanwhile, outside Nome Gallery

*There are so many regulars for the Nome Gallery in Berlin that it’s become entertaining just to figure out what they’re up to and publicize...

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Published on July 06, 2019 00:03

Just some of the endless declarations of AI principles

There are really absurd numbers of these

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Published on July 06, 2019 00:03

The latest EDRI-gram

*The wiretapping problem with 5G is gonna be an espionage gift that keeps on giving. ====================================================================== EDRi-gram fortnightly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe...

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July 5, 2019

Let’s dress like Georgia O’Keeffe

Art. Fashion. Style. Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern expands our understanding of this renowned modernist artist in the context of her self-crafted public persona—including her clothing...

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Published on July 05, 2019 00:02

Web Semantics: Self-driving car jargon

These are just the acronyms, from a recent white=paper from Daimler. Advanced Driver Assistance System Automated Driving System Automotive Safety Integrity Level Automotive Information Sharing...

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Published on July 05, 2019 00:02

July 4, 2019

Somebody got around to building a robot jellyfish

But now they will have to invent a commercial application for it, which won’t be easy A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute...

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Published on July 04, 2019 00:02

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