Why Luck Matters—Much More Than You Think.
“Seeing ourselves as self-made leads us to be less generous and public-spirited.”
Private land ownership is a beautiful dream gone badly wrong. It’s time to reinstate the forgotten ideal of the commons.
“The point was for an individual or family to gain the means for an independent life, not to grow rich from land ownership.”
Panama Papers Show How the Very Rich Use Art to Get Richer.
“Whether we like it or not, art is used for tax avoidance and evasion (…) Plenty of people are using it for money laundering.”
Online abuse: how women are fighting back.
“The idea that abusive speech or behaviour didn’t exist before the internet is simply false. Intolerance, in all its forms, is a deeply rooted societal problem.”
How to Get Past Negativity Bias in Order to Hardwire Positive Experiences.
“We evolved a brain that routinely scans for bad news, both internally and externally (…) And when we find the bad news, we tend to focus down upon it.”
Distracted Operators Risk Casualties (DORCs).
First came the Breathalyzer, now meet the roadside police “textalyzer”.
Hello World!
Machine Learning Recipes #1.
“Six lines of Python is all it takes to write your first machine learning program! In this episode, we'll briefly introduce what machine learning is and why it's important. Then, we'll follow a recipe for supervised learning (a technique to create a classifier from examples) and code it up.”
Clueless tinkering for me.
Tinker with a real neural network right here in your browser.
Save Netflix!
“Netflix is in terrible danger. In fact, these might be its last days. Oh, not today's Netflix. The Netflix you're using today is fine. It made it—got to do something daring and edgy, prove out its model, and become part of the establishment. But the next Netflix—the company so cool it makes Netflix look like Blockbuster Video—that Netflix is practically dead in the water.”
Mondrian, Malevich and Kandinsky.
How Abstract Art Can Help Understanding the Global Brain Drain.
