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What is progress?
Have we made progress? Medicine—our capacity to keep a person healthier for longer—has progressed. Our ability to apply that capacity consistently…
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Review: People's Republic of Walmart (2019)
Is Walmart a new model of all-American socialism? People's Republic of Walmart (Verso, 2019) would suggest so. Reaching to Fredric Jameson's footnote in…
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IETF 117 - Fragmentation & concentration: Beyond "free" & "closed"
Beyond "free" & "closed"
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Language of command
AI, work, and the end of the world
Jul 28
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Why dream?
This world To what may I liken it? To autumn fields lit dimly in the dusk by lightning flashes —Minamoto-no-Shitago (911-93 AD). Source: Yoel Hoffman…
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Steganography: the sleeping giant
Why regulating encryption will lead policymakers to your cellphone
Jul 7
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Taiwan & the internet during world war
Adapted from a talk at the U.S./Taiwan Science & Technology Cooperation Dialogue
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Will AI replace 'knowledge workers'?
I’ve been hesitant to wade into the AI cycle. But here we go. Will AI replace “knowledge workers?” Large language models, like GPT-4, learn from…
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