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Leaving Orthodoxy, Again
10 min read · Jun 11th · Losing faith in Orthodox Judaism is an old story. But today it’s often the “heretics” who rely on faith, and the “faithful” who draw on science.
TechCrunch
Apple’s Live Text lets you interact with text in your photos
2 min read · Jun 7th · Apple has introduced a new feature to its camera system that automatically recognizes and transcribes text in your photos, from a phone number on a business card to a whiteboard full of notes. Live…
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Trauma-Related Differences in Socio-Emotional Functioning Predict Housing and Employment Outcomes in Homeless Veterans
Jun 3rd · RationaleMental health and substance use disorders are strong risk factors for homelessness. Understanding the role of transdiagnostic factors could help inform efforts to reduce homelessness among…
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The Semiotic Review of Books
1 min read · May 30th · The Semiotic Review of Books (SRB, 1990-2012, Founding Editor: Paul Bouissac) was a multidisciplinary journal publishing review articles. It endeavoured to monitor those domains in the Humanities, the…
TechCrunch
Anthropic is the new AI research outfit from OpenAI’s Dario Amodei, and it has $124M to burn
3 min read · May 28th · As AI has grown from a menagerie of research projects to include a handful of titanic, industry-powering models like GPT-3, there is a need for the sector to evolve — or so thinks Dario Amodei, former…
Library of Congress
Curating as Artistic Act: Selecting Items for Speculative Annotation
3 min read · Apr 20th · The following is a guest post by the 2021 Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan, a research-based artist who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. With a subject focus on speech and civic engagement,…
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The Art of Storytelling - The Mechanics of a Great Story
Feb 6th · The whole world is built on stories.Religions, political parties, companies, and various social groups are using storytelling to promote their ideas.As Yuval...
The New York Review of Books
The Consolations of Philosophy
7 min read · 2020-12-31 · I recently found myself on a metal chair in the Jardin du Luxembourg, in Paris, submitting to my first-ever session of “philosophical therapy.” I was
The Awl
Gamboge, A Sunny Yellow with a Deadly Past
5 min read · From 2017 · Cultural histories of unusual hues.
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Philosopher AI
1 min read · 2020-08-19 · A GPT-3 experiment for generating creative & safe content.
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#69 – Keith Frankish — The Primalosophy Podcast
2020-03-27 · Philosopher of mind Keith Frankish is one of the leading proponents of “illusionism,” the theory that argues that your subjective experience is a trick of the mind. It’s a counterintuitive theory, but…
MIT Technology Review
We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law
8 min read · 2020-02-24 · It has fueled prosperity of the last 50 years. But the end is now in sight.
OneZero
We Finally Figured Out Who Makes wikiHow’s Bizarre Art
~16 min read · 2020-01-21 · Getting to the bottom of one of the internet’s most ridiculously drawn mysteries
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From moors to moros: the north african heritage of the hui chinese
2020-02-06 · (1996). From moors to moros: the north african heritage of the hui chinese. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 21-29.
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Online Etymology Dictionary | Origin, history and meaning of English words
7 min read · From 2019 · The online etymology dictionary is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms. It is professional enough to satisfy…
