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If you want to see what’s next in AI, just follow the data. ChatGPT and DALL-E trained on troves of internet data. Generative AI is making inroads in biotechnology and robotics thanks to existing or newly assembled datasets. One way to glance ahead, then, is to ask: What colossal datasets are still ripe for the picking? Recently, a new clue emerged. In a blog post, gaming company Niantic said it’s …

Uri Levine, a cofounder of Waze and the author of 'Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution,' argues that unicorn companies and bestselling books have a lot in common.

It may be almost December but I’ve got no intentions of wrapping up the year just yet. There are still plenty more albums to hit the review block and the latest finds perennial RSTB favorite Lee Baggett back at it once again. The West Coast songwriter has long lingered in the crumpled and creviced end of the Cosmic American canon and he shows no signs of digging out now. Waves …

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The streets of London were crawling with tractors recently, protesting the changes to inheritance tax on farms. (Previously farms were exempt from inheritance tax; now farms worth over £1m will be subject to it.) My initial response was to buy the line that this would only affect a tiny minority of farms, and that it was shutting a pretty egregious tax loophole exploited by the likes of James Dyson and …

Happy Thanksgiving! At the Plimoth Patuxet open air museum, this path leads to the English village. However, due to recent archeaological digs in downtown Plymouth at the site of the original fort, historians have learned that the native Wampanoag people lived very close to the palisade. Previously they were believed to live nearby, but not this close. The museum is re-interpreting the palisade and the Wampanoag dwellings. A grant from …

It’s one of those things everyone’s heard of, but few truly understand. It sits quietly in the corner of the bathroom (or as an attachment to the toilet itself), radiating mystery and a slight sense of intimidation. Ask someone about it, and you’ll usually get a shrug or a vague explanation that trails off into awkward silence. Why?

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The groundwork for what we call today “signals” dates as early as the 1970s. Based on this work, they became popular with different fields of computer science, defining them more specifically around the 90s and the early 2000s. In Web Development, they first made a run for it with KnockoutJS, and shortly after, signals took a backseat in (most of) our brains. Some years ago, multiple similar implementations came to …

A few months ago I shared some research that explored pathways to transformation and asked y’all to speculate on whether the more common pathway was Collapse and New Equilibrium. I confessed that the study team guessed Collapse and the actual research found that New Equilibrium (NE) was the more common route. Let’s take a closer […] The post Let’s Get Loopy first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.

3 different doctors told us my wife’s colon needed to be removed. This ongoing ordeal began last spring when she sent a fecal sample to Cologuard, a company that advertises frequently since the medical establishment has become fixated on reducing deaths from colon cancer. The results found genetic markers suggesting my wife might have colon cancer. The doctor ordered a colonoscopy. This procedure entails sticking a camera up a person’s …

*Can you attach a turbine to Nikola so we can generate power while he spins in his grave

The original Liberty Square trash can design is a delightful rarity in early Magic Kingdom photographs. This practical design features a cream-colored can adorned with tan vertical stripes on the sides, top, front door, and rear wall. This design graced the park until at least the early 1980s, though its exact retirement date remains a bit of a mystery.In this photo from December 1971, just two months after Walt Disney …

We’ve already featured CHBB (or Liaisons Dangereuses as they later became known) in our 80s HITS series, but thanks to a friend I noticed that their original cassette recordings have been reissued by Soulsheriff Records. It’s the same Swiss label that reissued Liaisons Dangereuses in 2013. On CHBB you get the complete discography of Chrislo Haas and Beate Bartel’s tapes as well as unreleased material pre-LD (1981). I’m so happy …

Every day, The Overhead Wire collects news about cities and sends the links to their email list. At the end of the week they take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to Streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. They are national and international links, sometimes entertaining or absurd but often useful. New perspective on visual …