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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Apps running on the network
Here's an article about one company's efforts to bypass the tech oligarchs.Main point: “We’re taking the internet back to a time when it provided this open environment for creativity and economic growth, a free market where services could connect on equal terms,”...
A call for help from an AI training group
AI4US.seeks to increase the number of Black women scientists in the AI field through a program called RAPIDS.The founder's call for help: "How many students can we free to realize their wildest dreams?"
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Sure to raise someone’s hackles
A review of a book on the shortfalls of our approach to economic development: “In the realm of benevolent intervention, the standing rule has always been that you can walk into a poor country and, with enough experts, supplies and bureaucratic correctives, make it...
Sure to raise someone’s hackles
A review of a book on the shortfalls of our approach to economic development: “In the realm of benevolent intervention, the standing rule has always been that you can walk into a poor country and, with enough experts, supplies and bureaucratic correctives, make it...
If only our crime labs were half as effective
A risk of how forensic science is portrayed on TV is the effect on juries that might accept testimony uncritically.
If only our crime labs were half as effective
A risk of how forensic science is portrayed on TV is the effect on juries that might accept testimony uncritically.
Technology won’t lead to Utopia
Some points from Nobel Laureate economist Gary Becker: We’ll never have more time. This means time is a scarce resource, so no Utopia because there will always be scarcity: “For while the growing abundance of goods may reduce the value of additional goods, time...