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Delhi: a forgotten history of same-sex love

To understand the lived experience of a literary culture, we need to know what we would describe as its seamy side as well.

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Where Weird Facebook is King: How a College Kid Does Social

The former viral “actual teen” updates his views on Facebook, Snapchat, and the rest.

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Google open sources Embedding Projector to make high-dimensional data more manageable

This morning, Google announced that it was open sourcing its data visualization tool, Embedding Projector. The tool will help machine learning researchers to..

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Musk Is Preparing to Release "Brain Hacking Tech," And He's Not Alone

Today, Elon Musk stated that updates regarding his neural lace, which is meant to augment the human mind, are coming next month. In October, Bryan Johnson announced a $100 million investment to put computers in our brains. And so, a race is on to hack human intelligence.

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We need startups to build democracy tech

It's time to actually make the world a better place. Silicon Valley was birthed from an existential threat to the world. Nazi radar defense technology was..

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China’s Artificial-Intelligence Boom

The country’s universities and tech giants are starting to surpass American ones when it comes to researching and implementing AI

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The Science of AI and the Art of Social Responsibility

By Guru Banavar, IBM’s Chief Science Officer for Cognitive Computing I am a computer scientist and engineer, inspired by the art of the possible an...

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TheConstitutionOfIndia - Repository for the Constitution of India.

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FACTLY launches ‘Counting India’

FACTLY was founded with a vision of making public information & data meaningful and launched our first data tool ‘Counting India’ today.

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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part One – Understanding Uber’s Bleak Operating Economics | naked capitalism

Uber's financials statements and economics shows a complete lack of progress towards profit and no reason to expect significant improvement

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When Chola king was personification of a perfect judge

How Manu Needhi Cholan inspired generations of judges was revealed in a Supreme Court order

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You, and (A)I – IDEO Stories

How artificial intelligence might help us be more social, live longer, and build closer communities, in the future

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What Plato has taught me about artificial intelligence

This is part of a series on my quest to learn as much as possible about AI. To know why I’m doing this, check out my first post.

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Google’s AI software is learning to make AI software

Google and others think software that learns to learn could take over some work done by AI experts.

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Matthias (Brussels, Belgium)’s review of Why I Write

Part 56 in the "Another autobiographical review that nobody asked for!"-series. Why I Review It was already very late in my boyhood, at thirty years old, when I considered writing book reviews. Being the man of action that I am, which is to say a lazy bum, it was almost to my own surprise that this innocent consideration promptly turned itself into virulent spasms across the keyboard, with my first contributions on Goodreads as the very unfortunate result. Thankfully my friends list at the time only consisted of some imported Facebook contacts who had last been active 5 years prior to my ...

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Elon Musk could soon share more on his plan to help humans keep up with AI

In nearly the same breath as he shared updates on his plans to dig tunnels, Elon Musk also noted he's looking to hopefully share more on his progress with..