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by gigama 5y ago
"Facebook's former director of monetization Tim Kendall says it's within the company's capability to improve the algorithm and crackdown on misinformation, but they don't because they won't make as much money.&
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Ex-Facebook executive explains how they make money(cnn.com)
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"Facebook accused of 'fanning ethnic violence' in Ethiopian civil war Frances Haugen, a former data scientist at Facebook, told members of a Senate subcommittee that her former employer bears some of the blame for the growing
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Facebook accused of 'fanning ethnic violence' in Ethiopian civil war(npr.org)
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How to permanently delete your Facebook account(facebook.com)
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by gigama 5y ago
If you're not familiar with information theory, hamming codes, data compression, and the like, the title might be misread as "decryption." Sorry, nothing to do with breaking ciphers. The article is about a new chip that can
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by gigama 5y ago
"Within a few days I realized that while this is the hardest place I will ever live, it's also the happiest I've ever been," he adds. "These kids have nothing and they were happier than I was. I really learned just
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A Teacher’s Education in Haiti(news.mit.edu)
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"While the noise appears random in nature, it has a probabilistic structure that allows the algorithm to guess what it might be." "The researchers tested the GRAND chip and found it could effectively decode any moderate redun
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A universal system for decoding any type of data sent across a network(news.mit.edu)
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Razor Thin: A Perspective on Earth's Atmosphere(visualcapitalist.com)
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Road to Decarbonization: The United States Electricity Mix(visualcapitalist.com)
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Facebook Wi-Fi(facebook.com)
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How to Get Smarter – Mental Models(visualcapitalist.com)
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Aristotle helped me overcome my vaccination reluctance(physicsworld.com)
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Continuing Ed – With Edward Snowden(edwardsnowden.substack.com)
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by gigama 5y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" --Upton Sinclair
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by gigama 5y ago
Title should've been "Why Richard Branson's flight matters to Richard Branson." Conan summed it up nicely... "I dream of a day when space travel is available not only to billionaires, but to any person with a net wo
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by gigama 5y ago
"It takes 17 Megajoules of energy to generate $1 of bitcoin, compared to 5 Megajoules to produce $1 of gold."
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Visualizing the Carbon Footprint of Gold and Bitcoin(visualcapitalist.com)
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by gigama 5y ago
"...melting an actual SADM model inside DLR’s LK3 plasma wind tunnel in Cologne. Arc-heated gas in the test chamber reaching speeds of several kilometres per second, reproducing reentry conditions."
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D4D: Design for Demise(esa.int)
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POV: Persistence of Vision POV: Point of View
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A Detailed Map of the Online World(visualcapitalist.com)
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How Long Is Now?(blog.longnow.org)
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We Can Have Facebook or Democracy. Not Both(democracynow.org)
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by gigama 5y ago
"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
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Visualizing the Power Consumption of Bitcoin Mining(visualcapitalist.com)
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by gigama 5y ago
While we finite beings might pause to contemplate and appreciate the numbers, I doubt we can ever really grok the spans of lightyears and voids out there...
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Putting unfathomable astronomical distances into human perspective(universal-sci.com)
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