Via Peter Strempel
Originally shared by ****
Even the most fanatical Bernie Bro has to admit their hero knows nothing about the real-life challenges a president faces when undermining established foreign governments. The tough truth is that no amount of high-minded rambling about free college tuition can put machine guns into the hands of juntas sympathetic to U.S. strategic goals.
Via Paul Heimann
I would have loved this three or four years ago.
Originally shared by Sy Bernot (Psybernaut)
This almost makes Windows 10 palatable to me.
Originally shared by Michael Tufekci
Great piece by Zeynep Tufekci suggesting that the Overton window has been broken.
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/opinion/campaign-stops/adventures-in-the-trump-twittersphere.html
Originally shared by John Baker
The liberalism of professionals just does not extend to matters of inequality; this is the area where soft hearts abruptly turn hard.
Innovation liberalism is “a liberalism of the rich,” to use the straightforward phrase of local labor leader Harris Gruman. This doctrine has no patience with the idea that everyone should share in society’s wealth. What Massachusetts liberals pine for, by and large, is a more perfect meritocracy — a system where the essential thing is to ensure that the truly talented get into the right schools and then get to rise through the ranks of society. Unfortunately, however, as the blue-state model makes painfully clear, there is no solidarity in a meritocracy. The ideology of educational achievement conveniently negates any esteem we might feel for the poorly graduated.
Originally shared by John Jainschigg
This
This technology actually has the potential of lowering the world’s production of carbon dioxide by reducing the need for air travel. People who travel by air for work have a carbon footprint that is easily an order of magnitude greater than those that don’t. A lot of that travel is for face to face meetings. Surely some of those meetings don’t really need to happen in the same location if we can dramatically improve the fidelity of telepresence technologies.
I’m a big fan of this.
Via Emlyn O’Regan
Originally shared by Kevin Kelly
Excellent short video of Microsoft’s new telepresence using its Hololens. The set up is still expensive, but the effect is real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d59O6cfaM0
The profit motive: microfinance goes sub-prime.
Originally shared by Will Shetterly
Via Chad Alan
Originally shared by StonedZar “StonedZarSG”
Originally shared by Michael Nielsen
My new general audience essay on the question: “Is AlphaGo really such a big deal [for artificial intelligence]?”
“In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue system defeated the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. At the time, the victory was widely described as a milestone in artificial intelligence. But Deep Blue’s technology turned out to be useful for chess and not much else. Computer science did not undergo a revolution. Will AlphaGo, the Go-playing system that recently defeated one of the strongest Go players in history, be any different?”
(Short answer: a qualified yes.)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160329-why-alphago-is-really-such-a-big-deal/
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