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Please let NEW! redesign Wikipedia. I think they will give you their work for free. The exposure on such a large site will be more valuable to them than a check from the WikiMedia foundation.
Thanks,
Everyone that uses Wikipedia despite its looks
“Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.” ~ Merlin Mann
“Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.” ~ Merlin Mann
The good news is that, because computers cannot and will not “understand” us the way we understand each other, they will not be able to take over the world and enslave us (at least not for a while). The bad news is that, because computers cannot come to us and meet us in our world, we must continue to adjust our world and bring ourselves to them. We will define and regiment our lives, including our social lives and our perceptions of our selves, in ways that are conducive to what a computer can “understand.” Their dumbness will become ours.
The good news is that, because computers cannot and will not “understand” us the way we understand each other, they will not be able to take over the world and enslave us (at least not for a while). The bad news is that, because computers cannot come to us and meet us in our world, we must continue to adjust our world and bring ourselves to them. We will define and regiment our lives, including our social lives and our perceptions of our selves, in ways that are conducive to what a computer can “understand.” Their dumbness will become ours.
Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers
“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been telling people that I want to be a robot,” said [Tim] Cannon. “These days, that doesn’t seem so impossible anymore.” The pair call themselves grinders — homebrew biohackers obsessed with the idea of human enhancement — who are looking for new ways to put machines into their bodies. They are joined by hundreds of aspiring biohackers who populate the movement’s online forums and a growing number, now several dozen, who have gotten the magnetic implants in real life.
We live in an interesting time.
Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers
“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been telling people that I want to be a robot,” said [Tim] Cannon. “These days, that doesn’t seem so impossible anymore.” The pair call themselves grinders — homebrew biohackers obsessed with the idea of human enhancement — who are looking for new ways to put machines into their bodies. They are joined by hundreds of aspiring biohackers who populate the movement’s online forums and a growing number, now several dozen, who have gotten the magnetic implants in real life.
We live in an interesting time.
An unusually strong storm formed off the coast of Alaska on August 5 and tracked into the center of the Arctic Ocean, where it slowly dissipated over the next several days.
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An unusually strong storm formed off the coast of Alaska on August 5 and tracked into the center of the Arctic Ocean, where it slowly dissipated over the next several days.
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Eight Glasses of Water a Day? Seriously?
[Heinz] Valtin traces the myth back to a 1945 National Research Council pamphlet advising one milliliter of water for each calorie of food eaten, which would indeed be sixty to eighty ounces for most adults. But everyone seems to have missed the pamphlet’s next sentence: “Most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods”
I drink far more than eight glasses of water a day. I’m glad to learn I don’t have to, but I doubt I’m going to stop.