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Thursday, June 29, 2017
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Love
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Radicalization
Ideology and action are sometimes connected, but not always. Most people who harbor radical ideas and vio- lent justifications do not engage in terrorism, just as many known terror- ists—even many of those who carry a militant jihadi banner—are not especially pious and have only a cursory understanding of the radical reli- gious ideology they claim to represent.
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Monday, June 26, 2017
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Happiness - Yuval Noah Harari
Agriculture also opened the way for social stratification, exploitation and possibly patriarchy. From the viewpoint of individual happiness, the "agricultural revolution" was, in the words of the scientist Jared Diamond, "the worst
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Saturday, June 24, 2017
Friday, June 23, 2017
NPR: Forget Freud: Dreams Replay Our Everyday Lives
Forget Freud: Dreams Replay Our Everyday Lives
NPR
Sigmund Freud thought dreams were all about wish fulfillment and repressed desire. But scientists now think they're linked to memory processing and consciousness. And they're often quite mundane. Read the full story
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
The New York Times: The iPhone Is 10 Years Old. Here’s the Story of Its Birth.
The iPhone Is 10 Years Old. Here's the Story of Its Birth.
The New York Times
Apple's culture of reverence and secrecy is no match for Brian Merchant in "The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone." Read the full story
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
TechRepublic: Google launches open source system to make training deep learning models faster and easier
Google launches open source system to make training deep learning models faster and easier
TechRepublic
Google's new Tensor2Tensor (T2T) library aims to help businesses and researchers create new machine learning models for translation, parsing, and more. Read the full story
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Monday, June 19, 2017
Sunday, June 18, 2017
Saturday, June 17, 2017
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"The overwhelming odor of dirty gym socks and the dead-animal flatulence of a gym rat on a steady diet of protein powder hung in an invisible cloud."
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Friday, June 16, 2017
CNET: How Apple is squeezing more photos into your iPhone
How Apple is squeezing more photos into your iPhone
CNET
FAQ: Apple's newest iPhone software attempts to move the world out of the JPEG era. CNET decodes the technology. Read the full story
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Thursday, June 15, 2017
Interesting quote from "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst"
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"This establishes a dichotomy of what things are supposedly made of: Biological stuff Homuncular grit Destructive sexual urges Resisting acting upon them Delusionally hearing voices Resisting their destructive commands Proclivity toward alcoholism Not drinking Having epileptic seizures Not driving if you didn't take your meds Not all that bright Getting going when the going gets tough Not the loveliest of faces Resisting getting that huge, hideous nose ring Here are just a few of the things we've seen in this book that can influence the column on the right: blood glucose levels; the socioeconomic status of your family of birth; a concussive head injury; sleep quality and quantity; prenatal environment; stress and glucocorticoid levels; whether you're in pain; if you have Parkinson's disease and which medication you've been prescribed; perinatal hypoxia; your dopamine D4 receptor gene variant; if you have had a stroke in your frontal cortex; if you suffered childhood abuse; how much of a cognitive load you've borne in the last few minutes; your MAO-A gene variant; if you're infected with a particular parasite; if you have the gene for Huntington's disease; lead levels in your tap water when you were a kid; if you live in an individualist or a collectivist culture; if you're a heterosexual male and there's an attractive woman around; if you've been smelling the sweat of someone who is frightened. On and on. Of all the stances of mitigated free will, the one that assigns aptitude to biology and effort to free will, or impulse to biology and resisting it to free will, is the most permeating and destructive. "You must have worked so hard""
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"This establishes a dichotomy of what things are supposedly made of: Biological stuff Homuncular grit Destructive sexual urges Resisting acting upon them Delusionally hearing voices Resisting their destructive commands Proclivity toward alcoholism Not drinking Having epileptic seizures Not driving if you didn't take your meds Not all that bright Getting going when the going gets tough Not the loveliest of faces Resisting getting that huge, hideous nose ring Here are just a few of the things we've seen in this book that can influence the column on the right: blood glucose levels; the socioeconomic status of your family of birth; a concussive head injury; sleep quality and quantity; prenatal environment; stress and glucocorticoid levels; whether you're in pain; if you have Parkinson's disease and which medication you've been prescribed; perinatal hypoxia; your dopamine D4 receptor gene variant; if you have had a stroke in your frontal cortex; if you suffered childhood abuse; how much of a cognitive load you've borne in the last few minutes; your MAO-A gene variant; if you're infected with a particular parasite; if you have the gene for Huntington's disease; lead levels in your tap water when you were a kid; if you live in an individualist or a collectivist culture; if you're a heterosexual male and there's an attractive woman around; if you've been smelling the sweat of someone who is frightened. On and on. Of all the stances of mitigated free will, the one that assigns aptitude to biology and effort to free will, or impulse to biology and resisting it to free will, is the most permeating and destructive. "You must have worked so hard""
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"For each side, perceiving themselves as having a "right" to do things their way mostly means that they have slathered enough post-hoc, Haidtian rationalizations on a shapeless, self-serving, parochial moral intuition; have lined up enough of their gray-bearded philosopher-king shepherds to proclaim the moral force of their stance; feel in the most sincere, pained way that the very essence of what they value and who they are is at stake, that the very moral rightness of the universe is wobbling; all of that so strongly that they can't recognize the "right" for what it is, namely "I can't tell you why, but this is how things should be done." To cite a quote attributed to Oscar Wilde, "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.""
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"For each side, perceiving themselves as having a "right" to do things their way mostly means that they have slathered enough post-hoc, Haidtian rationalizations on a shapeless, self-serving, parochial moral intuition; have lined up enough of their gray-bearded philosopher-king shepherds to proclaim the moral force of their stance; feel in the most sincere, pained way that the very essence of what they value and who they are is at stake, that the very moral rightness of the universe is wobbling; all of that so strongly that they can't recognize the "right" for what it is, namely "I can't tell you why, but this is how things should be done." To cite a quote attributed to Oscar Wilde, "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.""
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Interesting quote from "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst"
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"Various muscles have moved, and a behavior has happened. Perhaps it is a good act: you've empathically touched the arm of a suffering person. Perhaps it is a foul act: you've pulled a trigger, targeting an innocent person. Perhaps it is a good act: you've pulled a trigger, drawing fire to save others. Perhaps it is a foul act: you've touched the arm of someone, starting a chain of libidinal events that betray a loved one. Acts that, as emphasized, are definable only by context. Thus, to ask the question that will begin this and the next eight chapters, why did that behavior occur?"
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"Various muscles have moved, and a behavior has happened. Perhaps it is a good act: you've empathically touched the arm of a suffering person. Perhaps it is a foul act: you've pulled a trigger, targeting an innocent person. Perhaps it is a good act: you've pulled a trigger, drawing fire to save others. Perhaps it is a foul act: you've touched the arm of someone, starting a chain of libidinal events that betray a loved one. Acts that, as emphasized, are definable only by context. Thus, to ask the question that will begin this and the next eight chapters, why did that behavior occur?"
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Placing reasoning research in evolutionary context, a new book probes the haphazard ways we form opinions
Placing reasoning research in evolutionary context, a new book probes the haphazard ways we form opinions
From Science Magazine on Flipboard
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A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof—And Nobody Notices
A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof—And Nobody Notices
From WIRED, a Flipboard magazine by WIRED
As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon…
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Monday, June 12, 2017
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"There seems a much easier answer—you're seeing the Calvinist work ethic of a homunculus sprinkled with the right kind of fairy dust."
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"The current criminal justice system needs to be abolished and replaced with something that, while having some broad features in common with the current system,* would have utterly different underpinnings."
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"The current criminal justice system needs to be abolished and replaced with something that, while having some broad features in common with the current system,* would have utterly different underpinnings."
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Futurism: A Breakthrough AI Can Now Predict Which Babies Will Develop Autism
A Breakthrough AI Can Now Predict Which Babies Will Develop Autism
Futurism
Doctors can now predict which babies will develop autism spectrum disorder by the age of two with an astonishing 96 percent success rate. The test applies machine-learning to brain scans of six-month-old babies and may revolutionize the field of preventative autism treatment. Read the full story
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Smashing Magazine: A Complete Guide To Switching From HTTP To HTTPS
A Complete Guide To Switching From HTTP To HTTPS
Smashing Magazine
HTTPS is a must for every website nowadays: Users are looking for the padlock when providing their details; Chrome and Firefox explicitly mark websites that provide forms on pages without HTTPS as being non-secure; it is an SEO ranking factor; and it has a serious impact on privacy in general. Additionally, there is now more than one option to get an HTTPS certificate for free, so switching to HTTPS is only a matter of will. The post A Complete Guide To Switching From HTTP To HTTPS appeared Read the full story
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Sunday, June 11, 2017
Ars Technica: Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, claims x86 emulation is a patent minefield
Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, claims x86 emulation is a patent minefield
Ars Technica
Intel doesn't name names, but Windows 10 on ARM is surely the target of its ire. Read the full story
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Saturday, June 10, 2017
Interesting quote from "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst"
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"Dehumanization, pseudospeciation. The tools of the propagandists of hate. Thems as disgusting. Thems as rodents, as a cancer, as a transitional species, Thems as reekingly malodorous, as living in hives of chaos that no normal human would. Thems as shit. Get the insulae of your followers to confuse the literal and metaphorical, and you're 99 percent of the way there."
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"Dehumanization, pseudospeciation. The tools of the propagandists of hate. Thems as disgusting. Thems as rodents, as a cancer, as a transitional species, Thems as reekingly malodorous, as living in hives of chaos that no normal human would. Thems as shit. Get the insulae of your followers to confuse the literal and metaphorical, and you're 99 percent of the way there."
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Friday, June 09, 2017
Engadget: Intel's not very happy about Qualcomm-powered Windows 10 PCs
Intel's not very happy about Qualcomm-powered Windows 10 PCs
Engadget
As its 8086 chip architecture nears 40 years old, Intel has put Qualcomm on notice about recent news that Windows 10 PCs will run Snapdragon 835 chips with x86 emulation. "There have been reports that some companies may try to emulate Intel's proprietary x86 ISA without Intel's authorization," said chief lawyer Stephen Rodgers and Intel Labs Director Richard A. Uhlig in a blog post. "We do not welcome unlawful infringement of our patents, and we fully expect other companies to continue to ... Read the full story
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Thursday, June 08, 2017
Interesting quote from "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst"
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"it is only when cultures get large enough that there are anonymous interactions among strangers that they tend to invent moralizing gods."
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"it is only when cultures get large enough that there are anonymous interactions among strangers that they tend to invent moralizing gods."
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The American Scholar: It’s Complicated - Michael Shermer
https://theamericanscholar.org/its-complicated/#.WTljX1RlDxz
As for free will, a way to think about this in the context of a purely materialist determinist worldview is that we are volitional beings through (1) our modular minds that have many competing neural networks, which (2) allow us to make real choices by veto power—"free won't"—over contending impulses, which (3) give us a range of volitional choices by varying degrees of freedom, so (4) our choices are part of the causal net but free enough for most of us in most circumstances to be accountable for our actions.
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As for free will, a way to think about this in the context of a purely materialist determinist worldview is that we are volitional beings through (1) our modular minds that have many competing neural networks, which (2) allow us to make real choices by veto power—"free won't"—over contending impulses, which (3) give us a range of volitional choices by varying degrees of freedom, so (4) our choices are part of the causal net but free enough for most of us in most circumstances to be accountable for our actions.
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Tuesday, June 06, 2017
Sunday, June 04, 2017
National Geographic: New Map Reveals Ships Buried Below San Francisco
New Map Reveals Ships Buried Below San Francisco
National Geographic
Dozens of vessels that brought gold-crazed prospectors to the city in the 19th century still lie beneath the streets. Read the full story
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"When framed in the context of morality, averting the tragedy of the commons requires getting people in groups to not be selfish; it is an issue of Me versus Us."
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"When framed in the context of morality, averting the tragedy of the commons requires getting people in groups to not be selfish; it is an issue of Me versus Us."
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"what markets and cash economies do is shift a world of reciprocal altruism from the realm of social intuition to social calculation."
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Saturday, June 03, 2017
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"As Ariely writes in his book, "Overall cheating is not limited by risk; it is limited by our ability to rationalize the cheating to ourselves.""
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"As Ariely writes in his book, "Overall cheating is not limited by risk; it is limited by our ability to rationalize the cheating to ourselves.""
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Friday, June 02, 2017
Los Angeles Times: The Paris agreement got the logic of climate action all wrong. Good riddance
The Paris agreement got the logic of climate action all wrong. Good riddance
Los Angeles Times
The Paris accord's fate was sealed a year prior to its negotiation, at the little-noticed Lima climate conference of 2014. Read the full story
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FORTUNE: Intel's New Head of PC Chips Faces Revived Competition
Intel's New Head of PC Chips Faces Revived Competition
FORTUNE
An Intel office in Guadalajara, Mexico, on March 9, 2017. Gregory Bryant, Intel's new head of desktop and laptop processors, picked a good time to take over the volatile and long-challenged business unit. Personal computer shipments industrywide showed small signs of growth in the first quarter—rising 0.6% according to market tracker International Data Corp. But no matter the size of the uptick, it was the first growth in five years. Intel's own PC chip unit saw revenue shoot up 6%, as sales of Read the full story
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TechCrunch: Intel CEO explains why he spent $15 billion on Mobileye
Intel CEO explains why he spent $15 billion on Mobileye
TechCrunch
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich was interviewed at Code Conference on Thursday, where he talked about his long-term vision for automobiles. He said his prediction that "the car of the future is going to look much more like a server" was a driving factor in their recent acquisition of Mobileye, the Israeli auto startup which Intel paid over $15 billion for. ... Read the full story
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Thursday, June 01, 2017
Paris Climate Agreement Q&A | Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Many national governments offered new financial pledges in Paris. Collectively, developed countries pledged $19 billion to help developing countries, including an announcement by Secretary of State John Kerry that, by 2020, the United States will double its support for adaptation efforts to $800 million a year. In another sign that developing countries are now also providing support, Vietnam pledged $1 million to the new Green Climate Fund (GCF). And for the first time, subnational governments also offered pledges, including 1 million euros from the city of Paris for the GCF, and CAD 6 million from Quebec for the UNFCCC Least Developed Countries Fund. As of April 2017, $10.3 billion has been pledged to the Green Climate Fund from 43 governments.
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This Day In History: Joseph McCarthy Said Communists Have Infiltrated The State Department | American Military News
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2017/02/this-day-in-history-joseph-mccarthy-said-communists-have-infiltrated-the-state-department/amp/?
"I have here in my hand a list of 205 [State Department employees] that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party
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MacRumors: Intel Gaining Larger Foothold in iPhone LTE Chip Supply Chain as Apple Distances Itself From Qualcomm
Intel Gaining Larger Foothold in iPhone LTE Chip Supply Chain as Apple Distances Itself From Qualcomm
MacRumors
In the wake of Apple's lengthy legal battle with iPhone LTE chip supplier Qualcomm, Apple is believed to be leaning more on Intel as a manufacturer for the iPhone's baseband chip component. The news comes in a report by DigiTimes, which states that Apple's increase of Intel-created wireless chips for iPhones could lead well into 2018, suggesting the so-called iPhone 7s, iPhone 7s Plus, and iPhone 8 have a higher chance of receiving Intel's chip than Qualcomm's. Apple sourced both of the Read the full story
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Paris agreement
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/05/america_doesn_t_deserve_the_paris_agreement.html
The world deserves to take action on climate change free from the grip of this small man and the backward party that has empowered him. As for America? It's well past time we were left behind. Perhaps this will help us realize that our name and our history is not enough to keep us great: To maintain our position as a world leader, we will actually need to figure out how to lead.
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The world deserves to take action on climate change free from the grip of this small man and the backward party that has empowered him. As for America? It's well past time we were left behind. Perhaps this will help us realize that our name and our history is not enough to keep us great: To maintain our position as a world leader, we will actually need to figure out how to lead.
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