Since Google Reader went away I lost the easy way to share interesting articles. This post is a place to drop comments with links to interesting articles and things that don't rise to the level of a full post.
The City is not Neutral "Cities are complex adaptive systems—or more accurately, many systems of systems that allow the unique civil, social, and economic conditions that originally drove cities’ development and continue to allow the city to survive as an optimized hub of a large civilization. Like other complex systems, when it is touched, it changes..."
Interesting article about applying group testing to pandemic surveillance. I've thought it would be neat to apply to verification testing of complex software.
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The Art of Memory: Why It’s Just About the Coolest Thing Ever, and Why You Should Learn It Today
ReplyDeleteSo grateful that I've had awesome, meaningful jobs my whole career. Sad to hear so many folks think their work is BS.
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How to Make Your Arguments Stronger (Hint: Longer Is Not the Answer)
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Most Research in Deep Learning is a Total Waste of Time - Jeremy Howard | AI Podcast Clips
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Statistica Consequences of Fat Tails (a rough pre-print)
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A college kid’s fake, AI-generated blog fooled tens of thousands. This is how he made it.
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Language Models are Few Shot Learners
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