Why Do We Obey Rules?
If you’ve ever watched a show like “The Great British Bake Off,” you may have felt inspired to attempt a magnificent cake of your own—but you’ll quickly run into obstacles
It All Started With AI …and Here We Are
WhatsApp shared by Ghulam Mustafa, Ph.D, USA: It started with AI: I started working on ML about 10 years ago as a natural extension of my interest in probability and
Inspirational Quotes From Tropic of Cancer Region (Video)
Great quotes, words of inspiration, words of wisdom from the Tropic of Cancer region: Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucious; Only when you drink from the
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Nuclear-Armed Powers Squander $156,000 Every Minute on Their ‘MAD’ Policy
By Baher Kamal at IPS: They call it MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction. It is about the nuclear-armed powers’ doctrine of military strategy and national security policy. And they spent on
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The Perils Of Smashing The Past
Recalling the Italian futurists’ embrace of aggressive disruption. Nathan Gardels in Noema Magazine: “Move fast and break things,” the digital dictum of today’s Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, could have been penned by
Thinking Like a Scientist Will Make You Happier
Physicist Jim Al-Khalili (of Iraqi descent) explains how to get out from under the cloud of misinformation. “Every now and again, I go off and I will make a TV
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When Jawaharlal Nehru Read ‘Lolita’ to Decide Whether an ‘Obscene’ Book Should Be Allowed in India
After a consignment of Vladimir Nabokov’s famed book landed on Indian shores, a debate over its ban spanned Customs and police to the finance minister and PM. by Shubhneet Kaushik
A Google Engineer Claims One of Their AIs Has Become Sentient
Blake Lemoine, the software engineer, reported this to the US government and was subsequently suspended by Google for violation of confidentiality agreements. Almost no one agrees that the AI in
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Sumerian Cuneiform Script and Social Media Emojis
TROPIC OF CANCER SERIES: Uruk is the oldest Sumerian city inhabited civilized city in the world 6000-4000 years BC (8000-6000 years ago). Agriculture, art and architecture flourished then, and the
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Doodle Chaos: Imran Khan, NAB (Video)
In fall 2018, I likened Imran Khan tenure to this video clip by Doodle Chaos – I bumped into on the YouTube. In 2019, I wrote a post “Khan never
The Democracy of the Future
Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted Territories: In The Internet and Blockchain Will Kill Nation-States and The End of Nation-States, I explain how communication technologies created the nation-state, and why the Internet
THE DEMOCRATIC PARADOX: Nearly All Democracies Uptil Now Have Been Democracies in Name Only
The right to say anything has been a challenge to every democracy that has ever existed By Zac Gershberg and Sean Illing in The Democratic Paradox: We can now add