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Intelligence and context
Nov 1, 2014
society
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A. Most efforts to construct artificial intelligence are focussed on computation: building a brain with the right program and enough computational
The Googleverse of Feelings
Mar 6, 2014
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Is the free-text search box the defining invention of the last twenty years? I think it probably is. Now more than half the entire Western world
The rule of “white”
Oct 8, 2011
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More fun conflating linguistic change with social change using I like the growth of silver compared to gold
The rise of “kiss” in British and American English. Who sets the trends?
Oct 8, 2011
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More fun conflating linguistic change with social change. The second graph is British. Note the different y-axes. This growth and the subsequent
It’s all steam, really
May 21, 2010
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US geneticist creates first synthetic life. “It’s all software” he says, like Victorians said “it’s all steampower”