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Warren Buffett's bet against hedge funds at the Long Now Foundation (2008-17)
will go to Girls Incorporated of Omaha if Buffett wins, or Friends of Absolute Return for Kids, Inc if Protege Partners, LLC wins.
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Is soy a key driver of deforestation?
The world loses 5 million hectares of forest each year. What activities are driving this?
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So a female programmer walks into a bar…
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Previous Covid-19 may cut risk of reinfection 84%
People who had COVID-19 had an 84% lower risk of becoming reinfected and a 93% lower risk of symptomatic infection during 7 months of follow-up, according to findings from a large, multicenter study published late last week in The Lancet .
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Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer (2011)
At a sad time at which the world has just lost Steve Jobs, it is well to reflect on some of the things which he, his passion, and his creations have given us, as now the technical community should take...
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Death Is Optional: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari and Daniel Kahneman
KAHNEMAN: Could you elaborate on these possibilities? I mean, what's the distinction between predicting and setting up a range of possibilities?
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An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot
The secret ballot is one of the load-bearing walls of democracy. In Georgia, as in most states, this allows you to know whether your neighbor voted, but never who they voted for. Yet, in multiple states including Georgia, that guarantee is actively at risk.
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Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data
When recognizing faces and emotions, artificial intelligence (AI) can be biased, like classifying white people as happier than people from other racial backgrounds. This happens because the data used to train the AI contained a disproportionate number of happy white faces, leading it to correlate race with emotional…
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A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland
The Besenval Palace in Solothurn opened the museum « Der Kleine Prinz und seine Welt » dedicated to the Little Prince through the collection of Jean-Marc Probst.
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Bill to Legalize Marijuana and Opium Cleared for Indian Parliament (2016)
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How LinkedIn Just Made Ten Million People Feel Special
I’m rarely impressed by email spam, but LinkedIn is doing something brilliant right now. Check it out!
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DAG Rosenstein’s “Responsible Encryption” Demand Is Bad
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein delivered a speech on Tuesday about what he calls “responsible encryption” today. It misses the mark, by far. Rosenstein starts with a fallacy, attempting to convince you that encryption is unprecedented: Our society has never had a system where evidence of...
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Security for the people
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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ACLU: ICE and CBP Are Secretly Tracking Us Using Stingrays. We’re Suing
The public has a right to know if and how often ICE and CBP are using Stingrays.
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Some radical thoughts about Sci-Hub
Radical, as I like to remind folks, means to get to the root of an issue (same derivation as radish). So when I say I am offering some radical thoughts about Sci-Hub and the controversy it has generated, I mean that I hope to use the discussion to ask some very basic, “at the roots,” … Continue reading Some radical…
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This Thing for Which We Have No Name (2014)
It's not my job to be a behavioral economist; my job is to actually popularize behavioral economics. The interesting thing to me—as someone who has a brother who's an academic—is that academics, however brilliant, are the worst marketers in the world. And there's a reason for this, which is they, of course, possibly…