@[email protected] @[email protected] As a Christian myself, I'm still amazed at how many Christians seem to be surprised by the idea of Jesus being Jewish...
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One thing that jumps out at you on even a cursory read of research on intelligence is how few people know or can even explain what 'intelligence' is and how one would go about actually measuring it
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One of my favourite treats in the Netherlands and Belgium is ontbijtkoek. It's a spicy sweet breakfast cake that I usually eat toasted with butter.
@evan toasted ontbijtkoek? Interesting, don't know of any dutch eating it like that.
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I have been a little surprised that this shoe hadn't dropped already. The more that businesses become seen as extensions of a particular government's interests, the less that many other governments will want to have any relationship to them. See also the CapGemini brouhaha.
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Very fiery exchange between @[email protected] and Keir Starmer at #PMQs
1/ I know I'm biased because "waves book" but I think you should be able to make the case that the US is a critically important market for Canada without lying.
The US takes 75-77% of Canadian exports, but experts only account for about a third of Canadian GDP.
75% of 35% is not 75%.
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Saw a GenZ on the bus today wearing a pair of these bad boys we are so back
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Furniture.
my organization has some pretty aggressive security training - and appropriately so. But the latest I simply can't: A fully AI video - podcast men speaking, clearly AI voices, and AI work scenarios. Just utterly garbage. I might die on this hill.
I’m pretty bummed about Cambridge and Somerville’s decision to just give up on the bike lanes on Beacon Street these past couple weeks. I feel like it’s a big step back. 1/?
No. 10 communications were being directed!?
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade. The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances. Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S. Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
No Kings includes Draft Kings
The Unaccountability Machine
Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions – and How The World Lost its Mind
Hardcover Edition
304 pages
Published in 2024
by Profile Books Limited
Part-biography, part-political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing exposé of how management failures lead organisations to make catastrophic errors.
When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members.
Management cybernetics was Beer's science of applying self-regulation in organisational settings, but it was largely ignored – with the result being the political and economic crises that that we see today. With his signature blend of cynicism and journalistic rigour, Davies looks at what's gone wrong, and what might have been, had the world listened to Stafford Beer when it had the chance.
y'all might want to double-check WritingAtlas(dot)com to make sure your work that's behind a paywall isn't there for free. a friend had several of her stories scraped.
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