Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 61

Human genetics on the subcontinent of India

*My goodness there’s a lot of odd stuff here. Those one hundred genetically ancient Andaman islanders, what can one say (…) People tend to think...

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It’s coincidence

*Global warming? Couldn’t be.

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Track me, I’m a doomsday prepper

Why not take on all those trackable demographies at once (…) Mozilla this week touted Firefox’s anti-ad tracking talents by urging users of other browsers...

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Books, defective by design

*I bet you’d find some interesting odd stuff in here, unlike in Microsoft’s ebook store, which has closed and is obliterating every digital-rights-management “book” they...

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Jean-Michel Jarre’s favorite historical synthesizers

Well, he would know Below Jean-Michel Jarre speaks to French journalist Patrick Thévenin about ten of his favorite synthesizers. Electronic Music Studios E.M.S VCS 3...

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The state of the art in European terrorism

*It’s gone out of style to randomly blow people up; nowadays it’s all about polarization. https://towardsdatascience.com/visual... THE THREAT FROM TERRORISM IN THE EU BECAME MORE...

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New Machine Learning Inference Benchmarks

*It’ll be a lot less handwavey now. This isn’t exactly hot news, but I like the specialized industry jargon here. *It’s a press release. Press...

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3DPrinting space rockets in Mississippi

Okay, it’s far-fetched, but in that line of work, what isn’t

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Chatting with Joi Ito

I did not know a lot of this (…) You grew up in … I was born in Japan, grew up in Michigan, went back...

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I’m traveling tomorrow

*On a train. In the thick of this.

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