Of the 22 million comments submitted to the FCC regarding 2017’s controversial rollback of net neutrality, some 18 million were fake, an investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office has fou
The Maginot Line was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapons built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany. When it was built, the Maginot Line was believed to be one of t
(Image credit: Shutterstock) As net neutrality could potentially be restored in the US under the Biden administration, Mozilla has released the results of a new survey revealing that many Americans no
The Reactive Engine A. C. Kay 1969 I wish to God these calculations were executed by steam... C. Babbage, The Analytical Engine Many of the diagrams in the thesis were hand drawn. They have been redra
Photo by Paula Mariel Salischiker Last summer, the pandemic was in its first wave and the nation was in chaos. A lack of federal leadership left each state to figure out how to interpret the science,
As of last week, there are now 3,053 emoji, counting the 230 just approved for this year’s cohort—yes, the icons now get annual releases, like Microsoft Word or tax returns. This is too many emoji. We
Illustration: Martin Gee This story is the first in a two-part series about the inner workings of Netflix’s homepage. Read the second story here . Ten years ago, Netflix got the idea that its app shou
How will we build web applications in the future? If progress follows it's usual strategy, then whatever is difficult and valuable to do today will become easy and normal tomorrow. I imagine we'll dis
Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” has a famous opening: “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” The rest of the story foll
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On May 9, 2001, Steven M. Greer took the lectern at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., in pursuit of the truth about unidentified flying objects. Greer, an emergency-room physician in Virgi
14 min read · Sep 30, 2019 -- Consider the following thought experiment: a villager in the mid-17th century walks along a dirt path, he’s headed home after a long day of working on his farm. With noth
News aggregator Moreover was born in the late 1990s, at the same time as Google. At one point, Moreover dominated Google in the delivery of real-time news. So why did Moreover turn its back on the Con
Working toward SvelteKit 1.0 and a showcase full of SvelteKit sites! Last week, Svelte Summit blew us away with a mountain of content! Check out the full recording or an audio-only (p)review on Svelte
Qualitative analysis doesn't have to be overwhelming Take Delve's free online course to learn how to find themes and patterns in your qualitative data. Get started here. How to transcribe an interview
The works of Mark Lombardi are famous for their elegant narration of various scandals in a globalized world. A profound body of research into the images has already been performed both concerning the
In the end of his essay ‘Cognitive Mapping’ from 1988, Fredric Jameson makes what seems to be a disparaging remark about the ubiquity of the theme of paranoia in contemporary cultural production. ‘Con
Visitors to the Commodore booth at the 1986 Consumer Electronics Show were not only introduced to the newly restyled Commodore 64C and GEOS , but also a colourful new information service called Quantu
Background I recently graduated with a master's degree and was fortunate/unfortunate to glimpse the whole "Academic" side of ML. I took a thesis track in my degree because as an immigrant it's harder
We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis April 2021 How simple structured data trumps clever machine learning The late nineties dream of search engines was that they would use
Frames are an artificial intelligence data structure used to divide knowledge into substructures by representing " stereotyped situations". They were proposed by Marvin Minsky in his 1974 article "A F
To predict the future is to analyze the patterns of the present. When media theorist Jonathan Beller published his breakout book The Cinematic Mode of Production in 2006, the thesis that human attenti
Abstract Conventional, neoclassical economics assumes perfectly rational agents (firms, consumers, investors) who face well-defined problems and arrive at optimal behaviour consistent with — in equili
Usually I am more energized by building tech than by talking about it, but I am so excited about what my son and I did over winter break , that I just have to share about it here. In an odd kind of bu
Many young Chinese workers prioritise leisure time over sleep after long work days – even though they know it’s unhealthy. What’s driving this behaviour? Emma Rao spent almost three years on China’s n
There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021. Credit.
Scientific and statistical research must be read with a critical eye to understand how credible the claims are. The Reproducibility Crisis and the growth of meta-science have demonstrated that much re
Recent News Financial Fiasco Leading banks and investment funds have been foundering, because ofbad debts and lack of trust; and other, less well-known kinds of fiscalchaos are also on the horizon. Fo
Overview A large part of the unique potential of annotation comes from its ability to point inside media to specific places. Because of this, we must be able to reliably reference these specific locat
Explore this Article parts Other Sections Co-authored by X This article was co-authored by Lauren Kurtz . Lauren Kurtz is a Naturalist and Horticultural Specialist. Lauren has worked for Aurora, Color
Partition of a graph whose components are reachable from all vertices Graph with strongly connected components marked In the mathematical theory of directed graphs , a graph is said to be strongly con
What if your notes could self-organize—from scratch notes, to draft, to finished creative work—through a stream-of-consciousness process—like dreaming? Years ago, I was part of a user study that aimed
Imagine a world without stories. Can you? Most living beings, as far as we can tell, exist that way. For human beings, however, stories are almost as fundamental as breathing. I love the way Lisa Cron
On Politics Biden Changes His Own ‘Paradigm’ The president is quietly undercutting the exact brand of center-lane politics that he worked hard to enshrine as a senator. By March 29, 2021 Credit... Lea
C arlo Rovelli, the Italian theoretical physicist, is one of the great scientific explicators of our time . His wafer-thin essay collection, sold more than 1m copies in English translation in 2015 and
Previously, I wrote about the learning curve that artificial intelligence models use in their training, and how we can apply it to our own studies. The cyclical learning rate is raised and lowered reg
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Will to Believe, by William JamesThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orr