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A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree. A trope from the early days of computer science comes to mind: garbage i
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― You Are Not a Gadget
― You Are Not a Gadget
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Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic
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― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
Guelph Web Maker Meetup Book Library, Reviews and Discussion
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A reading group for solo-founders, bootstrappers and anyone else launching their own thing.
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This is the official Good reads group for the Page Break Podcast.
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This is our Book Club, where we can keep up with all the marketing books that are being read by …more
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