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Hi, I'm Drew Breunig.

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Hyundai preparing virtual dual-clutch gearbox for EVs

Expect the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N high-performance EV to get virtual shifts with vibrations and rev-limiter sounds, adding a little soul.

Between fake engine sounds and now virtual clutches, I'm fascinated by the trend in making EVs feel less like appliances and more like the mechanical cars of yore.

What should we call this? Skeumorphism? Emulation?

Whatever it is it conforms with my believe that the stage after 'obsolescence' is 'fetishization.'

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Brush control.

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One of the most undermining forces in American is the gap between people's perception of crime and the reality. There are countless examples of this disconnect.

The Economist illustrates a problem that accentuates the problem: police departments are significantly more likely represent black suspects in their Facebook.

A terrible story, told simply with data.

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Ed White, space walking in 1965

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Apropos of nothing.

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Amazon is gutting its voice-assistant Alexa. Employees describe a division in crisis and huge losses on 'a wasted opportunity.'

Once Jeff Bezos's pet project the mounting losses and massive job cuts underscore a failure in the hardware business model the company once

Astounding to me that a subsidized business to instrument customers’ homes with omnipresent storefronts is apparently flailing.

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An article this morning mentioned a statistic about rising cremation rates. On a hunch, I wondered about declining religious beliefs. Holds up exactly as imagined!

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A Primer on Media Measurement and Why it Defines Your World

For generations on the internet, people have warned, “If you’re not paying, you are the product.” Such an adage is good to keep in mind, but I suggest we take it a bit further. We should understand how we’re being packaged and sold so that we understand how it shapes the environments defined for us.

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We are the Underground Railroad of 'Gattaca' babies and people who want to do genetic stuff with their kids

Malcolm Collins, interviewed in Business Insider's piece on pronatalist rich people who worry about the future of "Western Civilization."

I'm going to start a list of the vastly wealthy basing major decisions off of misunderstanding films, books, and TV.

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Oakland survey, 1857

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To me, trained neural networks look a lot like compiled programs in a very limited assembler language. They’re essentially just massive lists of weights with a description of the order to execute them in.

What does the future hold for deep learning?