How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist
Estimated reading time: 12 minutes.
Hasnain says:
Super well written, and extremely scary. I also had no idea google had a design ethicist.
"We need our smartphones, notifications screens and web browsers to be exoskeletons for our minds and interpersonal relationships that put our values, not our impulses, first. People’s time is valuable. And we should protect it with the same rigor as privacy and other digital rights."
Posted on 2016-05-21T06:14:39+0000
A Secret Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing
Cedar trees living on steep cliffs were centuries old, and no one knew.
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Posted on 2016-05-21T06:09:56+0000
The Most Disturbing Thing About My Meeting With Mark Zuckerberg
Yesterday, I had an opportunity to meet with some of the senior staff at Facebook, including the CEO and COO. I found the meeting deeply disturbing — but not for the reasons you might think. Before I dig in, since I’ll be talking about bias, let me share a bit about mine. I have been an avid Faceboo...
Scott Adams Blog
Evaluating the Political Chess Board Posted May 19th, 2016 @ 10:38am in #Trump #clinton2016 Trump has pulled ahead of Clinton nationally in both the new FOX poll and the Rasmussen Poll. And Trump passed Clinton in favorability according to the newest national poll on that topic. The Megyn Kelly inte...
Hasnain says:
"I’m teeming with confirmation bias, but from my kitchen counter, I don’t see how it can go any direction but a Trump landslide from here."
It can only go downhill from here
Posted on 2016-05-19T17:08:20+0000
Tips for beginning systems and software engineers
From time to time I’m toying with the idea to give a lecture to newcomers in the IT industry (systems or software engineers). Here are some of the points that I would include in it: Human fa…
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Posted on 2016-05-19T15:24:44+0000
Google’s 9 lines
After reading about the Oracle v. Google trial I looked up the famous 9 lines of code that Google allegedly stole from Oracle, which implement the rangeCheck method for arrays. Note that arrays and…
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Posted on 2016-05-19T04:37:39+0000
Gov. Brown's "as of right" housing proposal could have sweeping Bay Area changes - San Francisco...
Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed sweeping statewide legislation that would allow new market-rate projects with at least some affordable housing onsite to be approved "as of right," with big ramifications for the Bay Area.
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Posted on 2016-05-19T04:27:04+0000
Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip
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Posted on 2016-05-19T04:15:05+0000
Theranos Voids Two Years of Edison Blood-Test Results
Theranos, led by Elizabeth Holmes, voids two years of Edison blood-test results and issues tens of thousands of corrected blood-test reports to patients and doctors.
New Support for Alternative Quantum View | Quanta Magazine
An experiment claims to have invalidated a decades-old criticism against pilot-wave theory, an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics that avoids the most
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Posted on 2016-05-18T05:28:03+0000