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Steve Nadis in Quanta: Imagine you had a friend who gave different answers to the same question, depending on how you asked it. “What’s the capital of Peru?” would get
Continue readingGame Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient
I find an old air gunand a can of ammodown in the basementin a cardboard moving box,along with some other stuff,flotsam from previous lives.A teenager, a long-expiredme, used it to
Human Differences in Judgment Lead to Problems for AI by Mayank Kejriwal at Singularity Hub: Many people understand the concept of bias at some intuitive level. In society, and in
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by Team Zeteo: The protests against Biden aren’t just happening outside the White House. They’ve also been happening within, as several Biden administration officials have publicly resigned over the support
Eric Kutcher, a senior partner at McKinsey, talks to the leaders of two of Indonesia’s largest telecommunications providers—Ririek Adriansyah, president director of PT Telkom Indonesia Tbk (Telkom), and Vikram Sinha,
Continue readingHow Digital Technologies in Indonesia are Bringing Inclusivity to 17,500 Islands
Dr. Azra Raza’s eloquent tribute to her beloved friend Mansoora Hasan, a Pakistani painter par excellence: “A glamorous, high-spirited, loving, vibrant, flamboyant, funny, fun-loving, gifted, talented, elegantly and unusually dressed
Continue readingPortrait of Artist Mansoora Hasan as a Young Woman
Doug Stowe in The Hedgehog Review: A few years ago, when my daughter was a freshman at Columbia University, one of only a few from Arkansas, I had the audacity
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?Why are you
Women (in the West) are aspiring to a “softer life”, away from that of “mid-2000s ‘girlboss’ hustle culture”. Writes Julia O’Driscoll in The Week: “The girlboss era is decidedly over,” Vanity
Lucas Chancel in Nature: As radical as they might seem, calls for limits on wealth are as old as civilization itself. The Hebrew Bible and Torah recognized years during which
Continue readingWhere Should Society Draw the Line on Extreme Wealth?
by Ashutosh Jogalekar at 3 Quarks Daily: Once again the world faces death and destruction, and once again it asks questions. The horrific assaults by Hamas on October 7 last
Continue readingIsrael, Gaza, and McNamara’s Lessons for War and Peace