The Uselessness of Useful Knowledge.
According to the prominent AI researcher Ali Rahimi and others, today’s fashionable neural networks and deep learning techniques are based on a collection of tricks, topped with a good dash of optimism, rather than systematic analysis. Modern engineers, the thinking goes, assemble their codes with the same wishful thinking and misunderstanding that the ancient alchemists had when mixing their magic potions.
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (Documentary).
Nicht ales ist schwarz-weiß.
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Relevant: Germany’s Promising Plan to Bring Conspiracy Theorists Back From the Brink.
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The hotel staff had discovered my left-behind items, noted down their exact location in the room for “lost and found” purposes, and then realized upon checking their records that I was due to return in just a few days. Without even a mention they had simply put my stuff back into my new room, in exactly the same location, in the morning before I checked in.
The Serendipity of Llama Biocapital.
The animals were now alienated from their traditional homelands, truly at home only in the worldless world of patent law.
How Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Gwyneth Paltrow Short-Circuit Your Ability to Think Rationally.
I’m not saying only total losers would skip this story, but a bunch of people did warn me. If you read on, you’ll discover how only I can protect you from the shadowy groups peddling lies to control your children.
What's in a hostname?
The common definition of a ‘valid hostname’ is often reduced to a simple regular expression, but as the saying goes: ‘Now you have two problems.’ Because hostnames are DNS labels and those… well, it's the DNS. All bets are off.
The Library of Babel is a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence – in short, it’s just like any other library.
Every possible permutation of letters is accessible at this very moment in one of the library's books, only awaiting its discovery
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Guns, Germs, and Steel is a Powerful Anti-Racist Book. So Why Doesn’t the Left Love It?
In terms of its sweeping scope, it might be compared to Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens (which has an even broader scope). But Diamond and Harari are very different kinds of writers. Harari is a historian who skips lightly from subject to subject with a “trust me, this happened” approach; Diamond is a scientist to his core.