April 10, 2023
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Ozempic Is About to Be Old News
“All of a sudden, Ozempic is everywhere. The weight-loss drug that it contains, semaglutide, is a potent treatment for obesity, and Hollywood and TikTok…”
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A Scandal Is Taking Place in American Music This Week
“A scandal is taking place in American music this week. And it’s all about a book written 50 years ago—and finally published on Tuesday. The release of this work…”
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The Decline and Fall of the Hit Instrumental Song
“Today I’m featuring a guest contributor at The Honest Broker . Chris Dalla Riva combines a deep grasp of music history with probing data analytics. You may have…”
April 8, 2023
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“Sponsored By: Mindsera This article is brought to you by Mindsera , an AI-powered journal that gives you personalized mentorship and feedback for improving your…”
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Resisting Deterministic Thinking
“AI is here and it will change everything! OMG the sky is falling! Programmers are now obsolete. No, they are needed more than ever before. Large language models…”
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‘Within a minute, everyone was dancing’ – Stardust on making Music Sounds Better With You
“Alan Braxe, co-writer, guitar, production I have three distinct memories of hearing this song. Right after we finished the track, we listened to it in the…”
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ongoing by Tim Bray · Fediverse Cheesemaking
“Starting sometime April 7th you can call me a CoSocialist, because my new social-media handle is becoming @[email protected] . CoSocial is yet another…”
April 7, 2023
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It’s Happening! – Cosocial.ca Canadian Mastodon Co-operative
“Hello, world! It’s been a while since we told you what’s going on with CoSocial.ca. Here are some important milestones! We’ve incorporated ! We’ve edited and…”
April 5, 2023
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MR Tries The Safe Uncertainty Fallacy
“The Safe Uncertainty Fallacy goes: The situation is completely uncertain. We can’t predict anything about it. We have literally no idea how it could go.…”
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ChatGPT Made Me Cry and Other Adventures in AI Land
“[Yesterday I spent all day answering reader questions for the inaugural Kottke.org Ask Me Anything . One of them asked my opinion of the current crop of AI…”
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“Ten years ago ( from last Saturday ) I launched Stratechery with an image of sailboats: A simple image. Two boats, and a big ocean. Perhaps it’s a race, and one…”
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Science Museums Take Stock of 1.1 Billion Objects From Around the World
“Matter Natural history museums have joined forces to produce a global digital inventory of their prized collections, from pinned butterflies to dinosaur skulls.…”
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“How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression. Imagine a time traveler journeyed to various times and places throughout human history and showed…”
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Here’s What It Would Take To Slow or Stop AI
“The story so far: I haven’t seen this many people this confused about the basics of a technology this important since the rise of the internet in the late 90s.…”
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The age of average — Alex Murrell
“Introduction: In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their…”
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“Somewhere between hyper-capitalist motivation videos, pseudo-spiritual tweets, and Instagram therapy infographics, a predominant mental-health narrative has…”
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The complex math of counterfactuals could help Spotify pick your next favorite song
“A new kind of machine-learning model built by a team of researchers at the music-streaming firm Spotify captures for the first time the complex math behind…”
April 3, 2023
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Scientists Warn of A “Friendship Recession” — I’m Part of It
“Scientists Warn of A “Friendship Recession” — I’m Part of It And the 11–3–6 rule that might help Photo by Surface on Unsplash A few weeks ago, I joined a local…”
March 27, 2023
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Society’s Technical Debt and Software’s Gutenberg Moment
“Abstract There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT. And there is also…”
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Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history – Marginal REVOLUTION
“In several of my books and many of my talks, I take great care to spell out just how special recent times have been, for most Americans at least. For my entire…”
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Thinking About AI: Part 2 – Structural Risks
“Yesterday I wrote a post on where we are with artificial intelligence by providing some history and foundational ideas around neural network size. Today I want…”
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“I am unable to visualize. When I close my eyes and try to imagine something, nothing swims into my mind’s eye. If you tell me to “picture” someone I love, I’ll…”
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Apple’s Best Hope for New Headset: a Smartwatch-Like Trajectory
“Apple’s push into mixed reality will take years to pay off, with the company hoping the device follows the same trajectory as its smartwatch. Also: My podcast…”
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Social sponges: Gendered brain development comes from society, not biology
“Why, in nations that purport to be gender-equal, are women still under-represented in science? Cognitive neuroscientist Gina Rippon offers some insights based…”
March 26, 2023
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The internet is not ours anymore
“The internet once belonged to cats. It was that weird period in the late nineties when everyone who was online seemed to be posting cat pictures (believe it or…”
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Strife at eLife: inside a journal’s quest to upend science publishing
“NEWS FEATURE 17 March 2023 Strife at eLife : inside a journal’s quest to upend science publishing Editors threaten to resign over ‘no-reject’ model that others…”
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Enabling privacy on the Internet with Oblivious HTTP
“Internet users are increasingly concerned about who collects their personal information, and how it might be used to paint a picture of their online (or real…”
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How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain | Quanta Magazine
“neuroscience How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain February 28, 2023 Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social…”
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“Bill Gates In my lifetime, I’ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary. The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a…”
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ChatGPT gets “eyes and ears” with plugins that can interface AI with the world
“A demo video of ChatGPT plugins from OpenAI. While OpenAI calls the plugin selection process a “plugin store,” the company has not announced plans to sell…”