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Mathematics Gives Us Life Skills and Mental Tools
Unfortunately, some professors, like the one who attacked my recent article, seem to prefer pedantry
“Anonymized” Data Is Not Confidential
It’s almost as anonymous as your fingerprint, actually
The Machine Knows You Are Angry
Okay, it knows if your facial muscles are twisted in a certain way… does the difference matter?
Doing the Impossible: A Step-by-Step Guide
Often, in life as in calculus, when our implicit assumptions as to why something can’t be done are made explicit, they can be disproven
Dolphinese: The Idea That Animals Think As We Do Dies Hard
But first it can lead us down strange paths
A simple triangle can disprove materialism
Conventional descriptions of material processes do not help much when we are trying to account for abstract thought
A Closer Look at Google’s Search Engine Bias
If Google’s CEO honestly believes that there is no political bias, that is, in itself, a big part of the problem
What Others Are Saying About the New Google Insider’s Revelations
The documents' authenticity is not in dispute. What to do about them is another matter
Whistleblower: Google Told Cops To Do a “Wellness Check” on Him
He can be seen doing a sort of perp walk on the video; some portions transcribed here
Is Google a Cult? Or Does It Just Act That Way?
Project Veritas announces that a new rebel Googler has sent nearly 1000 documents on algorithm bias to the DOJ
Fan Tries Programming AI Jazz, Gets Lots and Lots of AI…
Jazz is spontaneous, but spontaneous noise is not jazz
A Silicon Valley Insider Asks the Awkward Questions
Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel, speaking at COSM in October, has a history of challenging Valley orthodoxies
Elephants Who Fly — or Become “Persons” — Are Magic
Okay, it's impossible. But then why do thinkers who disbelieve the one believe the other?
Why Do Atheists Still Claim Free Will Can’t Exist?
Sam Harris reduces everything to physics but then ignores quantum non-determinism
The Paradox of Luck and Skill
Why did Shane Lowry win the British Open golf championship? Because someone had to
Are Monkeys with Some Human Genes Partly Human?
If they are somewhat smarter than other macaques, do they have minds and souls?
Why Was IBM Watson a Flop in Medicine?
Robert J. Marks and Gary S. Smith discuss how the AI couldn’t identify which information in the tsunami of medical literature actually MATTERED
Why Is DeepMind In Deep Water Financially?
Market analysts are wondering if the money is as smart as the machine
Whatever Musk says, Don’t Watch Netflix in Your Tesla
He’ll only allow streaming while stopped until “full self-driving is approved by regulators”
New AI Can Create—and Detect—Fake News
But how good is it at either task? We tested some copy
