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UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted.
Examples of wasted potential:Mon Jan 20 18:12:53 2025 - permalink -
Sarah: Built a fusion reactor at 16. Now? Debugging fintech payment systems.
James: 3D-printed prosthetic limbs for A-levels. Today? Writing credit risk reports.
Alex: Developed AI drone swarms for disaster relief at 18. Graduated with top honours from Imperial. His job? Tweaking a single button's ergonomics on home appliances.
These aren't outliers. They're a generation of engineering prodigies whose talents are being squandered.
This isn't just wage disparity. It's misallocation of human capital on a national scale.- https://josef.cn/blog/uk-talent
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The Ghosts in the Machine | MetaFilter
It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process.Fri Dec 20 20:44:31 2024 - permalink -
I feel this is slowly happening to all types of media., not just audio. The slow dumbification of culture- https://www.metafilter.com/206804/The-Ghosts-in-the-Machine
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Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise
So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:Wed Nov 6 15:32:45 2024 - permalink -
One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism.
The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs- https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-the-deep-learning-boom-caught
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Dracula author Bram Stoker's lost story unearthed after 134 years
amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker, published just seven years before his legendary gothic novel Dracula.Mon Oct 21 20:49:50 2024 - permalink -
Brian Cleary stumbled upon the 134-year-old ghostly tale while browsing the archives of the National Library of Ireland- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9119l64qo
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I just listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. As music, it’s good. As art, it’s truly great | Music | The Guardian
I just listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. As music, it’s good. As art, it’s truly greatMon Jun 17 08:18:11 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/17/i-just-listened-to-wu-tang-clans-once-upon-a-time-in-shaolin-as-music-its-good-as-art-its-truly-great
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‘Everybody has a breaking point’: how the climate crisis affects our brains | Climate crisis | The Guardian
How the climate crisis affects our brainsWed Mar 27 08:19:09 2024 - permalink -
Scientists are just starting to discover how extreme heat and weather is linked to neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s and motor neurone disease – and can even affect babies in the womb. What can we do about it?- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/27/everybody-has-a-breaking-point-how-the-climate-crisis-affects-our-brains
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The ashes of Arthur C. Clarke and Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry just burned up on re-entry to Earth's atmosphere after a failed moonshot | PC Gamer
Ehhhh...Sat Jan 20 21:24:03 2024 - permalink -- https://www.pcgamer.com/the-ashes-of-arthur-c-clarke-and-star-trek-creator-gene-rodenberry-just-burned-up-on-re-entry-to-earths-atmosphere-after-a-failed-moonshot/
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Bloomberg: Tech Companies Got Access to Classified Info in PRISM Deal
NSA Prism scandal is just a tiny scratch on the privacy surface. Citing "four people familiar with the process", the agency claims that in fact thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies work with US national security agencies.Mon Jun 17 11:51:19 2013 - permalink -- http://gizmodo.com/bloomberg-us-agencies-actually-share-data-with-thousan-513341290
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Your Skype Account Can Be Hacked Using Just Your Email Address (Updated)
Your Skype Account Can Be Hacked Using Just Your Email AddressWed Nov 14 14:06:05 2012 - permalink -- http://gizmodo.com/5960420/your-skype-account-can-be-hacked-using-just-your-email-address
