Luke Dormehl
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“the theory behind the panopticon was that prisoners would behave as if they were being watched at all times — with the mere presence of the watchtower being as effective as iron bars in regulating behaviour and ensuring that everyone acted the same way. (A similar idea is behind today’s open-plan offices.)”
― The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems … and Create More
― The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems … and Create More
“Learning is a profoundly important part of what makes us human. It is also something Good Old-Fashioned AI struggled with. The”
― Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future
― Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future
“It is the gulf between the idea of the autonomous individual, and the algorithmic tendency to view the individual as one categorisable node in an aggregate mass that can result in The Formula’s equivalent of a crisis of self.”
― The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems … and Create More
― The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems … and Create More
“One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker’s Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, ‘Thou shalt commit adultery.”
― Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
― Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
“These days, digitization enables us to view the copies [of the Gutenberg Bible] online without the need for a trip to the Euston Road, although to do so would be to deny oneself one of the great pleasures in life. The first book ever printed in Europe - heavy, luxurious, pungent and creaky - does not read particularly well on an iPhone.”
― Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
― Just My Type: A Book About Fonts