Photograph of John Fowles by Carolyn Djanogly John Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on March 31, 1926. He attended Bedford School (1940–1944) and then served nearly two years in the Royal Marin
Tech & Science How does AI make us feel about ourselves? Managers should be selective about when and how they use their more-expensive human workforce for decision-making. 4 hours ago Tech & Science R
For the past 9 months I have been presenting versions of this talk to AI researchers, investors, politicians and policy makers. I felt it was time to share these ideas with a wider audience. Thanks to
Your Brain Is Not for Thinking In stressful times, this surprising lesson from neuroscience may help to lessen your anxieties. Nov. 23, 2020 Credit... Claire Merchlinsky By Dr. Barrett is a psychologi
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Credit... Photo illustration by Guillem Casasus / Stock photo by Ricardo Rey The Pandemic Is Showing Us How Capitalism Is Amazing, and Inadequate Why big business needs big government and vice versa.
Twelve dependable principles for thriving in a turbulent world The Digital Revolution gets all the headlines these days. But turning slowly beneath the fast-forward turbulence, steadily driving the gy
In a healthcare test that went horribly wrong, GPT-3 told a mock patient to kill themself. Trash Talk GPT-3, an advanced language-processing artificial intelligence algorithm developed by OpenAI, is r
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During her confirmation hearings, Amy Coney Barrett argued that the judicial philosophy known as “originalism” should guide judges in their interpretation and application of constitutional principles.
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Nine philosophers explore the various issues and questions raised by the newly released language model, GPT-3, in this edition of Philosophers On , guest edited by Annette Zimmermann. Introduction Ann
This post is about how much things can change in the world over a lifetime. I’m going to restrict my attention to science, though there are many parallels in technology, human rights, and social justi
Last month, Boris Johnson, the U.K.’s prime minister, delivered a speech in the industrial town of Dudley about his plan to lead the country out of the pandemic with large-scale investment projects. T
On July 1, Max Wang , a Boston-based software engineer who was leaving Facebook after more than seven years, shared a video on the company’s internal discussion board that was meant to serve as a warn
The first published science journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, was published in 1667 and consisted mostly of letters and brief dispatches. Credit... Album/British Library, via A
Architecture's Irascible Reformer Moss grows from the steep, pitched roof of the West Dean Gardens visitors' center. Carefully trained grape vines hug its walls. And the facade, approached by a curvin
Online events remind me a lot of ecommerce in about 1996. The software is raw and rough around the edges, and often doesn’t work very well, though that can get fixed. But more importantly, no-one quit
Privacy from the tradeoffs dept Wed, May 20th 2020 03:37pm - and Eli Dourado Apple and Google have now released their update to their mobile operating systems to include a new capability for COVID-19
Image Credit: VentureBeat / Alejandra Sarmiento After saving lives, the most urgent — and hotly debated — problem facing government policymakers in the age of COVID-19 may be how to strike a balance b
“I hate tennis.” This is the opening message of Andre Agassi’s biography, Open . Agassi was the son of a tyrannical father who cared for little beyond creating a tennis champion out of his little boy.
This article is part of Tortoise’s pre-read content for the Tortoise AI Summit taking place tomorrow. It’s open to all – register your place here . Smartphone apps deployed by governments to stop the
Photograph from Alamy Shakespeare lived his entire life in the shadow of bubonic plague. On April 26, 1564, in the parish register of Holy Trinity Church, in Stratford-upon-Avon, the vicar, John Bretc
Mark Rolston used to be CCO at Frog Design. Now he runs his new consultancy, Argodesign . And as part of our Wearables Week, his firm generated a series of concepts based upon our simple mandate: No watches . What Argodesign presented in response was “a provocation”–four wearable concepts that would…
Read Stephen Wolfram’s Reddit AMA about this essay » The Pursuit of Productivity I’m a person who’s only satisfied if I feel I’m being productive. I like figuring things out. I like making things. And
When Sam gets home from work, their partner Charlie asks, “How was your day, dear?” The conversation goes like this. A stressful conversation Sam: “At my weekly meeting my manager challenged my knowle
Tech Keywords Professor who summarized the impact of technology on society 30 years ago seems prescient now, in the age of smartphones and social media Nov. 26, 2017 8:00 am ET A customer tries out th
Summary: It makes political and economic sense for the US to suppress the coronavirus. For that, states and the federal government each have their own roles that they need to adjust. The US is now the
Posted June 15, 2012 Warning: This document was written 15 years ago and is probably not relevant for today’s product managers. I present it here merely as an example of a useful training document. Go
Last week, confined to my home in America, I glimpsed the future. Or more precisely, one of several possible post-pandemic futures. Christopher Suzanne, an American who teaches English in Wuhan, China
Your brain is most intelligent when you don’t instruct it on what to do—something people who take showers discover on occasion. - The Bed of Procrustes If you can set annual goals and hit them on the
Central to our hope of returning to life as normal is the possibility of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that is causing covid-19. Dozens of companies have announced innovative developme
In the third week of February, as the COVID -19 epidemic was still flaring in China, I arrived in Kolkata, India. I woke up to a sweltering morning—the black kites outside my hotel room were circling
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What We Pretend to Know About the Coronavirus Could Kill Us Today’s propaganda is tomorrow’s truth, and vice versa. April 3, 2020 Credit... The New York Times By Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at lar
Humankind is now facing a global crisis. Perhaps the biggest crisis of our generation. The decisions people and governments take in the next few weeks will probably shape the world for years to come.
'Trump Is Right About the Coronavirus. The WHO Is Wrong,' Says Israeli Expert Dr. Dan Yamin has developed models for predicting the spread of infectious diseases, and helped curb the Ebola epidemic. H