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Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence

vatican.va

28 january 2025 antiqua et nova human intelligence
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Digital Reality, Digital Shock: Growing Up at the Dawn of Cyberspace

chrbutler.com

For those of us born around 1980, William Gibson’s Neuromancer might be the most prophetic novel...
For those of us born around 1980, William Gibson’s Neuromancer might be the most prophetic novel we never read as teenagers. Published in 1984, it predicted the digital world we would inherit: a reality where human consciousness extends into cyberspace, where corporations control the digital commons, and where being...
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Interview with DeepSeek Founder: We're Done Following. It's Time to Lead

thechinaacademy.org

Try Premium Member for Free with a 7-Day TrialSilicon Valley is reeling. A seismic shift in...
Try Premium Member for Free with a 7-Day TrialSilicon Valley is reeling. A seismic shift in AI dominance is underway, and all eyes are on China. In January 2025, DeepSeek-R1—an open-source inference model from Chinese AI firm DeepSeek—sent shockwaves through the tech world by matching OpenAI’s top-tier performance a...
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Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes

publicdomainreview.org

The feast laid out is lavish, but the table is so overladen, there is no space...
The feast laid out is lavish, but the table is so overladen, there is no space to dine. This is the somewhat absurd scenario staged by the tablescapes of Dutch banquet still life paintings. Also known as pronkstilleven, or “sumptuous still lifes”, these scenes are a distinct subgenre of still life painting that gain...
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Codes Health (YC S24) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com
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Rust's worst feature (available in Rust nightly)

mina86.com
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LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting

documentfoundation.org
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My home built pipe organ

sentex.ca

how to build a pipe organ
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Tesla sales in Germany dropped 41% in 2024

cleanenergywire.org

U.S. carmaker Tesla, which is headed by highly controversial CEO Elon Musk, registered the biggest slump...
U.S. carmaker Tesla, which is headed by highly controversial CEO Elon Musk, registered the biggest slump of new registrations among all electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers in Germany last year. Registrations of new Teslas dropped 41 percent to less than 38,000 vehicles, data from the Federal Motor Transport Authorit...
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Teemoji: Like Tee but with Emojis

github.com
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A Young Man Used AI to Build a Nuclear Fusor and Now I Must Weep

corememory.com

AI madness is upon many of us, and it can take different forms. In August 2024,...
AI madness is upon many of us, and it can take different forms. In August 2024, for example, I stumbled upon a post from a 20-year-old who had built a nuclear fusor in his home with a bunch of mail-ordered parts. More to the point, he’d done this while under the tutelage of Anthropic’s Claude AI service.What is a nu...
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Goethe's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" – power over wisdom

wilderutopia.com

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, an ages-old fairy tale interpreted as a poem by Goethe, made famous today...
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, an ages-old fairy tale interpreted as a poem by Goethe, made famous today by Disney’s Fantasia, illustrated the dangers of power over wisdom, and the risk of human creations getting out of control. Goethe: “That old sorcerer has vanished. And for once has gone away! Spirits called by him, ...
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I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason

poptheconfetti.website
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The US government's open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed

reddit.com

climate
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Snakeskin: It's Fashionable, and It Scares Predators Away from Bird Nests

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A museum curator with a ladder showed that birds that build cavity-style nests are able to protect their eggs with the skin shed by snakes.Great-crested flyca...

animal behavior birds reproduction (biological)research snakes
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Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation

plos.org

europe genetics humidity nose phenotypes
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Analysis of 76,882 Product Hunt Products, from 2014 – 2021

components.one

This report is the result of an analysis of Product Hunt from 2014 to 2021, including...
This report is the result of an analysis of Product Hunt from 2014 to 2021, including 76,822 products and 397,067 user profiles. Among its findings is that users who promote productivity apps and users who promote games are the least likely to be the same people, among any pair of categories. We argue that this oppo...
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Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed

nature.com

NASA ‘fist bumps’ an asteroid to reveal Solar System’s secrets
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Hard Mode Rust

matklad.github.io
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Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech

techcrunch.com

American teens have lost their faith in Big Tech, according to a new report from Common...
American teens have lost their faith in Big Tech, according to a new report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit offering reviews and ratings for media and technology, which more recently includes AI products. In the study released Wednesday, the organization surveyed over 1,000 teens on whether major technology com...
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Detecting edges of images at the speed of light

phys.org
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JWST shocks the world with colliding neutron star discovery

bigthink.com

Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel...
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all Where do the heaviest elements in the Universe come from? If you were like most astrophysicists during the 20th century, you might’ve said from supernova explosions: stellar cataclysms t...
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Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research

mahaloz.re
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Show HN: TinyJs React like framework in 35 lines of code

ycombinator.com
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