Machine learning is the practice of training algorithms to classify and predict in order to support decision-making. In recent years, it has skyrocketed in popularity and ubiquity. It’s no stretch to
In his seminal book Seeing Like a State , James Scott describes what he calls “high modernists:” lovers of orders who mistake complexity for chaos, and rush to rearrange it from the ground up in a mor
Reading this tweet by Maciej Ceglowski makes me want to set down a conjecture that I’ve been entertaining for the last couple of years (in part thanks to having read Maciej’s and Kieran’s previous wor
Thank you so much for joining us! Can you tell us a bit about your “backstory”? What led you to this particular career path? I gained my tenure at several early-stage Silicon Valley startups leading U
Tinyland is a project I invented in order to explore the ideas behind Dynamicland . I’ve been doing a bunch of tiny experiments with a few pals at the Recurse Center . Tangible UI I’m interested to fi
China uses facial recognition technology to track Uyghur Muslims. The US military uses drones to kill suspected terrorists —any nearby civilians. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement—which has locke
This short guide gives a brief introduction to copyleft licenses, an important kind of open software license. Understanding copyleft licenses at a high level unlocks a world of new software, from Linu
The brain collects far more memories than it can keep. We absorb new information throughout the day, but retain only some overnight and beyond. Sleep seems crucial to this balance of learning and forg
View the interactive version of this story on PRI's The World's website . For decades, most of the million smallholder farmers who migrated to the Amazon basin from other parts of Brazil knew how to d
I’ve been tweeting for the @WeAreDisabled this week, and I worked my way to talking about tech (and not just disability issues) today. The thread where I briefly lay out my own current work is here: @
Today, I want to tell you why some scientists believe that our universe is really a 3-dimensional projection of a 2-dimensional space. They call it the “holographic principle” and the key idea is this
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I was recently honored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Alongside Oakland Privacy and William Gibson, I received a 2019 Barlow/Pioneer Award . I was asked to give a speech. As I reflected on wha
One sunny afternoon this April, a Chinese teenager nicknamed Gallen was backpacking through Bali, hunting for things to do. But he didn’t turn to TripAdvisor for crowd-sourced suggestions (too time co
ecology Soil’s Microbial Market Shows the Ruthless Side of Forests August 27, 2019 In the “underground economy” for soil nutrients, fungi strike hard bargains and punish plants that won’t meet their p
Chuck Park’s resignation from the Foreign Service is effective Thursday. I was 26, newly married and more than a little idealistic when I set off for my first diplomatic assignment almost a decade ago
A story told by a designer and a developer from Societe Generale. Published in Societe Generale Design · 8 min read · Jun 28, 2019 -- The current surge in articles about design systems inspired us to
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The time has long been overdue to wish you all well and share the progress we’ve been making, and the occasion of welcoming the new year is the perfect time to do so. In the past year, our team in the
If humans could create their own digital afterlife, what would it look like? Would we build a radically new plane of existence unencumbered by the limitations of the physical world, or are those human
Kylie-Anne Kelly can’t remember the exact moment she became her boyfriend’s one and only, his what would I do without you , but she does remember neglecting her own needs to the point of hospitalizati
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Abstractions blog How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram February 21, 2019 Physicists have devised a holographic model of “de Sitter space,” the term for a universe like ours, that could give us
There is a second valley past the Uncanny Valley or How developing an AR horror game put me in the hospital. 10 min read · Feb 13, 2019 -- Background: I have been developing mobile games for 10 years.
Yesterday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson sentenced former SSCI head of security James Wolfe to two months in prison for lying to the FBI. In her comments announcing the sentence, Jackson explained why s
Voices Ironically I posted the photo with editorial about censorship Facebook, Instagram, and now Tumblr prize naked women, while deleting naked men. The ramifications are bigger than a shortage of se
Draw me your map of utopia and I’ll tell you your tragic flaw. In 10 years of political reporting I’ve met a lot of intense, oddly dressed people with very specific ideas about what the perfect world
Oct 26, 2018 The CSS Working Group At TPAC: What’s New In CSS? About The Author Rachel Andrew is a web developer, writer and speaker. She is the author of a number of books, including The New CSS Layo
When I voted last September, I cast my first vote as a New Yorker. I didn’t think Cynthia Nixon would win in the primaries; every poll showed the queer democratic socialist losing the governor race to
The anti-anxiety effects of ketamine are associated with specific brainwave changes, according to research published in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology . The study found the thera
This text is for those who weep for what is about to come. It was written for those who perceive the darkest of nights arriving with its violence, its scorn and its appetite for vengeance. Because in
in Education | October 10th, 2018 12 Comments How should you take notes in class? Like so many students who came before me and would come after, I had little idea in college and even less in high scho
Adrian Daub | Longreads | October 2018 | 16 minutes (4,170 words) Physiognomy — the attempt to interpret a person’s character by means of their face — was one of those things that educated 19th-centur
Paul Virilio (1932 – 2018) is not for everyone. Books with strange, alien titles such as Negative Horizon , Polar Inertia , Bunker Archaeology and the Lost Dimension – and books written in a style tha
developmental biology To Heal Some Wounds, Adult Cells Turn More Fetal August 29, 2018 Once again, body cells reveal unexpected plasticity: In a newly discovered type of wound healing, which some rese
Published in CodyHouse · 8 min read · Jul 18, 2018 -- Typography is arguably the essential part of a website. When we think about the content of a web page, we think about words. In this article, we’l
A little while ago, I wrote a well-received article about combining CSS variables with CSS grid to help build more maintainable layouts. But CSS grid isn’t just for pages! That is a common myth. Altho
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