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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
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
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A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof—And Nobody Notices
A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof—And Nobody Notices
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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
Interesting quote from "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst"
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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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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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"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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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
BEHAVE by Robert M. Sapolsky | Kirkus Reviews
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-m-sapolsky/behave-biology/
Other aspects are located at the intersection of nature and nurture, as with the plummeting U.S. crime rate in the 1990s, attributable in part to accessible abortion—for, as Sapolsky notes, nothing is quite so sure to lead to a life of crime as "being born to a mother who, if she could, would have chosen that you not be."
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Other aspects are located at the intersection of nature and nurture, as with the plummeting U.S. crime rate in the 1990s, attributable in part to accessible abortion—for, as Sapolsky notes, nothing is quite so sure to lead to a life of crime as "being born to a mother who, if she could, would have chosen that you not be."
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NPR: In Public Understanding Of Science, Alternative Facts Are The Norm
In Public Understanding Of Science, Alternative Facts Are The Norm
NPR
If we are committed to combating "alternate facts" in science — as we should be — then we must also combat the alternative theories that license them, says guest blogger Andrew Shtulman. Read the full story
Consider these two widely endorsed misconceptions: that humans are not responsible for climate change (endorsed by around 50 percent of Americans) and that genetically modified foods are dangerous to eat (endorsed by around 60 percent of Americans). The first misconception is a byproduct of our intuitive theories of geology and the second is a byproduct of our intuitive theories of inheritance.
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WIRED: The Father of Android Is Back, and He’s Built the Anti-iPhone
The Father of Android Is Back, and He's Built the Anti-iPhone
WIRED
Andy Rubin sees the future, and can't sit around waiting for it to arrive. Read the full story
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Monday, May 29, 2017
Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just the Words - Episode 14
http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode14.htm
When the Piranhas left school they were called up but were found by an Army Board to be too unstable even for National Service. Denied the opportunity to use their talents in the service of their country, they began to operate what they called 'The Operation'. They would select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid the so-called protection money. Four months later they started another operation which the called 'The Other Operation'. In this racket they selected another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them. One month later they hit upon 'The Other Other Operation'. In this the victim was threatened that if he didn't pay them, they would beat him up. This for the Piranha brothers was the turning point.
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When the Piranhas left school they were called up but were found by an Army Board to be too unstable even for National Service. Denied the opportunity to use their talents in the service of their country, they began to operate what they called 'The Operation'. They would select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid the so-called protection money. Four months later they started another operation which the called 'The Other Operation'. In this racket they selected another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them. One month later they hit upon 'The Other Other Operation'. In this the victim was threatened that if he didn't pay them, they would beat him up. This for the Piranha brothers was the turning point.
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AP Central - Understanding Heritability
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/homepage/45829.html
3. Heritability and inherited are nearly the opposite in meaning. This statement is true. Although heritability might seem like it reflects how inherited a trait is, it doesn't do this at all. Actually, it is paradoxical. The more inherited a trait is, the less heritable it is. So if the liberal establishment ever gets schools to be relatively equal in terms of facilities, materials, and instructional staff, then the heritability of student achievement would increase. Although it might seem that inherited events are highly heritable, they are not.
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3. Heritability and inherited are nearly the opposite in meaning. This statement is true. Although heritability might seem like it reflects how inherited a trait is, it doesn't do this at all. Actually, it is paradoxical. The more inherited a trait is, the less heritable it is. So if the liberal establishment ever gets schools to be relatively equal in terms of facilities, materials, and instructional staff, then the heritability of student achievement would increase. Although it might seem that inherited events are highly heritable, they are not.
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Science Magazine: CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations
CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations
Science Magazine
- New York, NY (May 29, 2017) -- As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene-editing technology can introduce hundreds of uninte.. Read the full story
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Sunday, May 28, 2017
The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America - The Atlantic
When the state entered the union in 1859, for example, Oregon explicitly forbade black people from living in its borders, the only state to do so. In more recent times, the city repeatedly undertook "urban renewal" projects (such as the construction of Legacy Emanuel Hospital) that decimated the small black community that existed here.
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Futurism: In Just a Few Short Years, CRISPR Has Sparked a Research Revolution
In Just a Few Short Years, CRISPR Has Sparked a Research Revolution
Futurism
CRISPR is allowing scientists to make great strides in many fields in the relatively short time it's been in use. Advances have been made in medicine, nutrition, biology, and more. Read the full story
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Saturday, May 27, 2017
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
How to boost your gut health (no probiotics necessary)
How to boost your gut health (no probiotics necessary)
From The Daily Edition, a Flipboard magazine by The Newsdesk
Conventional wisdom says that if you're dealing with a touchy gut, you should just start taking probiotics and eating more yogurt and sauerkraut.…
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Vox: A Stanford scientist on the biology of human evil
A Stanford scientist on the biology of human evil
Vox
"Our species has problems with violence." —Biologist Robert Sapolsky Read the full story
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Saturday, May 20, 2017
The energy expansions of evolution : Nature Ecology & Evolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0138
The history of the life–Earth system can be divided into five 'energetic' epochs, each featuring the evolution of life forms that can exploit a new source of energy. These sources are: geochemical energy, sunlight, oxygen, flesh and fire. The first two were present at the start, but oxygen, flesh and fire are all consequences of evolutionary events
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The history of the life–Earth system can be divided into five 'energetic' epochs, each featuring the evolution of life forms that can exploit a new source of energy. These sources are: geochemical energy, sunlight, oxygen, flesh and fire. The first two were present at the start, but oxygen, flesh and fire are all consequences of evolutionary events
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The Leahey Report: The Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
The Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
The Leahey Report
The Diffie-Hellman key exchange is an exchange of a key between two parties where the key ends up being passed in secret. There is no information passed as the main goal is to create an encryption key between the two parties. The key is important because once that is established, information can then be sent along using the encryption algorithm that both parties have already agreed upon. Read the full story
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Friday, May 19, 2017
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell's death ruled a suicide
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Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell's death ruled a suicide
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The Value and Virtue of Good Writing (Rule No. 7: Don’t Be a Bore) - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/books/review/do-i-make-myself-clear-harold-evans.html
Writing well is not a mere matter of aesthetics; it is a "moral issue.
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Writing well is not a mere matter of aesthetics; it is a "moral issue.
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Monday, May 15, 2017
Science & Technology Research News: First Spherical Nucleic Acid Drug Injected Into Humans Targets Brain Cancer
First Spherical Nucleic Acid Drug Injected Into Humans Targets Brain Cancer
Science & Technology Research News
The first drug using spherical nucleic acids to be systemically given to humans has been developed by Northwestern University scientists and approved by the Food and Drug Administration as an investigational new drug for an early-stage clinical trial in the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme. A clinical trial has just been launched at the Robert... Read the full story
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10 songs you need to hear right now: LCD Soundsystem, Big Sean, Serene Dominic, Playboy Manbaby, Waxahatchee
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10 songs you need to hear right now: LCD Soundsystem, Big Sean, Serene Dominic, Playboy Manbaby, Waxahatchee
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10 songs you need to hear right now: LCD Soundsystem, Big Sean, Serene Dominic, Playboy Manbaby, Waxahatchee
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Sunday, May 14, 2017
Saturday, May 13, 2017
The Wall Street Journal: For $10.69, British Researcher Slows Global Cyberattack
For $10.69, British Researcher Slows Global Cyberattack
The Wall Street Journal
Cybercrime experts credit an unidentified British researcher with stumbling onto a "kill switch" which helped slow the spread of a computer worm that victimized the U.K.'s National Health Service and others. Read the full story
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Alexandra Sokoloff: CHINATOWN - Act Two, part one breakdown
http://www.screenwritingtricks.com/2009/03/chinatown-act-two-part-two-breakdown.html
Note that there's no real reason that Ida Sessions would know anything about the Albacore Club, but this is what Hitchcock called a "ham sandwich" – a plot hole that you only think about after the movie, when you're in your robe and standing in your kitchen about to bite into a ham sandwich…)
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Note that there's no real reason that Ida Sessions would know anything about the Albacore Club, but this is what Hitchcock called a "ham sandwich" – a plot hole that you only think about after the movie, when you're in your robe and standing in your kitchen about to bite into a ham sandwich…)
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Complexity: Decoding deep similarities : Nature : Nature Research
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v545/n7653/full/545154a.html?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews&sf78118478=1&sf78340687=1
This blind belief in innovation as a panacea is, as West points out, often coupled to misapprehension or even denial of the costs of open-ended growth, such as climate change. At best, such issues are swept under the carpet as "externalities", market failures that pose a nuisance for economic accounting. An economics afflicted by such attitudes is not even a dismal science; it's a pseudoscience.
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This blind belief in innovation as a panacea is, as West points out, often coupled to misapprehension or even denial of the costs of open-ended growth, such as climate change. At best, such issues are swept under the carpet as "externalities", market failures that pose a nuisance for economic accounting. An economics afflicted by such attitudes is not even a dismal science; it's a pseudoscience.
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Friday, May 12, 2017
US spymasters trash Kaspersky: AV tools can't be trusted, we've stuck a probe in them
US spymasters trash Kaspersky: AV tools can't be trusted, we've stuck a probe in them
Eugene shouts back: Gimme the mic and let me testifyFive US spy bosses, and the acting FBI chief, today told the…
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HuffPost: Does Meditation Really Help With Depression And Anxiety?
Does Meditation Really Help With Depression And Anxiety?
HuffPost
The Question: I experience depression and anxiety. Will meditation really help me? ... Read the full story
Mindfulness meditation is based on the idea of paying attention one's own inner experience, whether that's thoughts or sensations or emotions," she told HuffPost. "Anything that passes through the mind is the internal stimuli that you're paying attention to."
Ideally, with enough practice, you'll learn to create space between negative thoughts and your reactions.
"See them as distinct objects from yourself," Hoge said. "As in, 'My thoughts are not myself.' That allows a layer of separation so that the person has a little bit more freedom in how to respond to the thoughts or how to cope with them."
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Intel Free Press: Microsoft Outlines Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning on Intel FPGAs
Microsoft Outlines Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning on Intel FPGAs
Intel Free Press
At Build, Microsoft's annual developers conference, taking place this week, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich disclosed major advances in Microsoft's hyperscale deployment of Intel® field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). These advances have resulted in the industry's fastest public cloud network, and new technology for acceleration of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that replicate "thinking" in a manner that's conceptually similar to that of the human brain. Russinovich said the advances offer " Read the full story
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