AI Systems Still Confound Researchers
By BEN BRUBAKER in Quanta: An open secret about artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT is that they all have an unsettling quirk: Not even the researchers who build them fully understand
For the Love of Cats in Turkey
As an anthropologist, this intimacy with cats fascinates me because they represent another instance of how “human culture” is in fact made up of our relationships with nonhumans. Globally, cats
Zionism Über Alles
Hans Kundnani in Dissent: In the five months since October 7, people around the world have looked on in horror as Germany has wielded the memory of the Holocaust to
Laila and Majnu
Early morning today, while reading Laila Majnu — an age-old love story turned into a stunning musical in the walled city of Lahore at Dawn website, I attempted to look
‘Siri Paye’-by Habib Khan
Habib Khan from Quetta: I had been to the Kaghan valley twice in the nineties and the first time in 1993 when we hired a jeep from Shogran to Naran,
The Math Hiding in Plain Sight
Sarah Hart, the professor of geometry at Gresham College, sees symmetry everywhere–humans are detectors of hidden math. Read related Article here.
Photography’s Shooting Star
Exhibitions in London and New York honor the prodigious photographer who left behind a timeless body of work following her death, at just 22 Gagosian in New York City is
Why is Russia’s President for Life Bothering With an Election Campaign?
The Proof is in the Putin Excerpts of an article by Andrew Ryvkin at Air Mail: Vladimir Putin is up for re-election. At the time of writing, the outcome is
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Writing a Novel With Pictures
Smuggling contraband in from the realm of the actual. Amitava Kumar at Hazlitt: I was sitting on a train, travelling from my home in Poughkeepsie to New York City, when I
Americans Views of Foreign Alliances Growing Increasingly Divided
Kerry Boyd Anderson at Arab News: Today, as the world shifts from a unipolar world dominated by the US toward a more multipolar world, many Republicans are questioning how Americans
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The Videos You are About to Watch are Not Real
Creating video from text: Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
TWO Quotable Quotes on Butterfly
If you spend your time chasing butterflies, they will fly away; but if you spend your time making a beautiful garden, the butterflies will come. “The flapping of the wings