Tag: links
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The world is better because industrialism made it better. The world is worse because industrialism made it worse. https://seths.blog/2019/03/embracing-externalities/ more ›
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SAN FRANCISCO — Some of the world’s biggest internet messaging companies are hoping to succeed where cryptocurrency start-ups have failed by introducing mainstream consumers to the alternative world of digital… more ›
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Scott B. Weingart is an historian of science, a data scientist, and a librarian at Carnegie Mellon University. Find him on twitter @scott_bot. This article originally appeared on Weingart’s blog,… more ›
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In his 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15-hour workweek in the 21st century, creating the equivalent of a five-day weekend. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/ more ›
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If you had visited the Cambridge University Library in the late 1990s, you might have observed a skinny young man, his face illuminated by the glow of a laptop screen,… more ›
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When Detroit-based luxury goods brand Shinola began working on its new Vinton watch, the team designed with a woman in mind, but testing the product through analytics platform MakerSights, which… more ›
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I’ve talked quite a lot about the impact of machine learning and computer vision in general on everything from e-commerce recommendation to social to all kinds of cool industrial applications,… more ›
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If one person embodies the unbridled audacity and optimism of bitcoin investors, it’s Didi Taihuttu. https://qz.com/1546591/a-complete-guide-to-cryptocurrency-after-the-crash/ more ›
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Riding this wave of creative and commercial success, Paak teamed up with the producer Knxwledge and, calling themselves NxWorries, released Yes Lawd! (Stones Throw Records) in October to more critical… more ›
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Much has been written about Russian President Vladimir Putin. Often described as an autocrat, a strong leader, a narcissist, a modern-day czar, a former KGB spy and a judo black… more ›