reading.list

Aug
01

Happiness rituals

New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy - Barking Up The Wrong TreeThere’s a lot of stuff about happiness on the internet, but what do neuroscientists say can
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Aug
01

Can We Quantify Machine Consciousness?

Artificial intelligence might endow some computers with self-awareness. Here’s how we’d know https://spectrum.ieee.org/can-we-quantify-machine-consciousness
Aug
01

Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck. Here’s How to Move It Forward. - The New York Times

Artificial Intelligence is colossally hyped these days, but the dirty little secret is that it still has a long, long way to go. Sure, A.I. systems have mastered an array of
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May
28

Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand

Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never UnderstandArtificial intelligence is making the limits of human knowledge painfully obvious.WIREDCondé Nast
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May
28

What Plato knew about behavioural economics. (A lot) | Aeon Essays

What Plato knew about behavioural economics. (A lot) | Aeon EssaysHow much did Plato know about behavioural economics and cognitive biases? Pretty much everything, it turns outAeon Magazine
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May
28

Consciousness is not a thing, but a process of inference | Aeon Essays

Consciousness is not a thing, but a process of inference | Aeon EssaysThe special trick of consciousness is being able to project action and time into a range of possible futuresAeon Magazine
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Aug
30

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

via ted.com David is a pioneering form of journalist. He describes himself as a data journalist and this talk is a great introduction to his work and to the emergence of
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Oct
11

Sergey Brin on Google Book Search

This quotation would hardly surprise anyone who follows electric vehicles. But it may be surprising to hear that in the year when it was written thousands of electric cars were produced and
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