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SpaceX and Tesla will merge. At that point, nothing will stop Tesla from building self-driving cars that will take you to Mars where you can say hello to your uncle who traded his condo in LA for the chance of being part of the first...
This post presents a thought experiment that is based on this claim: “AI is to art what calculators are to math”. In which art refers to visual art, writing, and music. Imagine math world. Math world is like our world in every...
Sunday's New York Times Book Review included a review by Clancy Martin of Emily Eakin's The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory, a book on the French postmodernists. I was interested to read Martin's personal take. He had dropped out of a...
Today was a very nice and sunny day – also very hot, though. Maybe a little too hot. Around 36 degrees Celsius. But I decided to go for a walk anyway. Since I’ve been reading news articles of people finding things like WW2 shipwrecks and...
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View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Haze in the distance. Canada has a colour-coded weather alert system and when weather is fine, it is colour-free. When it is bad, it can be Yellow, Orange, or Red. Today it is Yellow. Environment Canada...
Joel of Far Outliers has another goodie from Culture.pl, European Nationalist Revolts in 1905, quoting an article by Zachary Mazur; this is the bit I thought belonged here: For the next two years following the events of January 1905,...
you think the news will be devastating yet all I feel is calm didn't expect that did you?
Emily Steel, New York Times (gift link): More than 4,000 lawsuits have been filed, so many that thousands were combined to streamline procedural matters. Most remain in the early stages. The New York Times reviewed documents from the...
Told in 17-Year cycles and through three generations of women, this remote cabin ghost story plumbs the ways we harbor our ghosts and how they might just harbor us.Read it at the NEW PLAY EXCHANGE:orsubscribe to the digital $3 tier over...
“War on Cars” is certainly a provocative name for a group, since it’s something that pro-car advocates often accuse urbanists of waging. Certainly it’s not how I’d describe what I do, because cars are essential in rural areas, useful in...
Hi everyone. Today I’m once again joining in with Esther’s writing prompt. The word this week is “test”. I could, like I’ve done so many times, rant about the use and misuse of testing in education and care. I mean, everyone who’s...
I saw these articles going viral about the “AI crisis in math,” those being “Mathematicians need to act” and “The Dark Night of Mathematics.” If the math career doesn’t work out or if AI takes over, they certainly have a career in...
Of course, I had to at one point. Although saying that nowadays doesn't usually produce a great reaction. 10 years ago people would be celebrating. Obviously my circumstances are different. But wow, I thought id be happier. They let me...
Manny Patel made the first version of this over thirty years ago when he was a high school student. Now he has returned to his Star Trek Bohemian Rhapsody media mix as a celebration of the show’s 60th anniversary (and Queen’s song is 50,...