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Alex Kantrowitz at The Big Technology: The AI field has made remarkable progress with incomplete data. Leading generative models like Claude, Gemini, GPT-4, and Llama can understand text but not
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From Anahi Valenzuela at The Week Digital: Cyclists take part in the Giro d’Italia cycle race in Capo Noli, Italy A Palestinian child stands in front of a destroyed building
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Francesco Pacifico in Paris Review: My first conversations with Jhumpa Lahiri took place in Rome this past July, in her apartment near the Janiculum, above Trastevere. It was an extremely hot
Lessons from anthropology can help prevent them. Ron Barrett in The Conversation: The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the
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Generative AI has begun to reshape jobs; leaders have an opportunity to reimagine work, the workplace, and the worker. Here are five actions that orgs. can take to help make
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All my friends are finding new beliefs.This one converts to Catholicism and this one to trees.In a highly literary and hitherto religiously-indifferent JewGod whomps on like a genetic generator.Paleo, Keto,
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Today, when only 28 pct of Americans are satisfied with democracy, why would anyone look to the U.S. as a model? Stefan Katz at the Bulwark: IT IS NO SECRET
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Anita Jain in the Washington Times: In his latest book, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, Fareed Zakaria proffers his own 21st-century spin on storied historian Eric Hobsbawm’s
Erik Baker in the Boston Review: One of the courses I teach is called “Science, Activism, and Political Conflict,” and one of my ambitions with that course is to show
Indonesia is the eighth-largest contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Therefore, its role in global decarbonization is increasingly critical. With historical trends indicating a potential doubling of its emissions
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Things are growing strange these days,like Van Gogh’s yellow trees. Oh, do notbe surprised by these yellow immensities,how out of proportion things in the pictureseem. What you see in a
Is spiritualism and materialism paradoxical? Can they coexist? Is the inference that occult is akin to or similar to spiritualism a valid argument? The groupthink that “all-round and harmoniously developed
Continue readingDid the Occult Influence Karl Marx and Early Communism?