Xi’s Intensive Meetings With World Leaders at G20 Summit in Bali
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with a number of foreign leaders - including some from US allies and major developing...
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Hyperintelligence: Art, AI, and the Limits of Cognition
by Jochen Szangolies: On May 11, 1997, chess computer Deep Blue dealt then-world chess champion Garry Kasparov a decisive defeat,...
May 9, 2018 جھٹکے پہ جھٹکا
ارشاد سلیم، کراچی کئی مرتبہ اسرار کرنے کے بعد میں نے فیصلہ کیا کہ میں 9 مئی 2018 کو فیریئر...
AI uses artificial sleep to learn new task without forgetting the last
Many AIs can only become good at one task, forgetting everything they know if they learn another. A form of...
The Puzzle of Working Class Politics Around the World
by Pranab Bardhan: The recent spectacular rise of extreme right-wing parties in Italy and Sweden and the squeaking narrow victory...
Moderation Is Different From Censorship
Scott Alexander in Astral Codex Ten: This is a point I keep seeing people miss in the debate about social...
Are Trees Talking Underground? For Scientists, It’s in Dispute.
From Ted Lasso to TED Talks, the theory of the “wood-wide web” is everywhere, and some scientists argue that it...
How Killing Sparrows Led to Great Famines in China (VIDEO)
In 1958, Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain… Read more here....
Why Aesthetic Value Should Take Priority Over Moral Value
Aesthetic value is a catch-all term that encompasses the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the dramatic, the comic, the cute,...
Rana Begum’s Public Artwork: Interplay of light, form, nature, architecture
The ambitious, site-specific installations No.1187 Mesh and No. 1193 Mesh by Rana Begum (born 1977 in Sylhet, Bangladesh), commissioned by...
