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dominiccummings.com
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| | | | | 'People, ideas, machines -- in that order!' Colonel Boyd '[R]ational systems exhibit universal drives towards self-protection, resource acquisition, replication and efficiency. Those drives will lead to anti-social and dangerous behaviour if not explicitly countered. The current computing infrastructure would be very vulnerable to unconstrained systems with these drives.' Omohundro. 'For progress there is no cure...' | |
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suegardner.org
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| | | | | The New York Times piece on Wikipedia's gender gap has given rise to dozens of great online conversations about why so few women edit Wikipedia. I've been reading ALL of it, because I believe we need to understand the origins of our gender gap before we can solve it. And the people talking --on science... | |
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www.doctorsyntax.net
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| | | | | This week's screed against book publishers comes from Matt Yglesias at Vox.com, who proclaims, "Amazon is doing the world a favor by ... | |
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tiensblurb.wordpress.com
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| | | Dreamer's Pool by Juliet Marillier My rating: 4 of 5 stars Source: paperback copy courtesy of publisher Everything about this book is attractive! The must-read author, the interesting blurb, and beautiful cover... I absolutely HAD to read it. It was a fine read and I quite loved this new world of Marillier's. As a fan... | ||
