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Technology
What gets lost for players when computers are trained, expertly, in competing at our games?…
Culture
Best magazine essay I’ve read in the last year. No jokes about skimming: read it.
Over the last several years, the problem of attention has
Broad access is the greatest promise of our digital age. Giving control over such access to one company, no matter how clever or popular, is …
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[Link.] Via The Awl.…
[Link.] Twitter is going to turn its search results into a real-time Google News-Wikipedia mash-up? Or, you could say, a giant topic-indexed blog …
[Via The Independent.] Creative minds in all kinds of areas, from science to poetry, and mathematics to humour, may have traits associated with …
[via Essay – Our Two Cultures – NYTimes.com.] Today, others believe science now addresses the human condition in ways Snow did not anticipate. For …
Science
[Via NYTBR.] When each side wants to believe certain scientific conclusions for extra-scientific reasons, skepticism is the better part of rigor. …
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