The Last Museum is a semantic search engine for 5.8 million artworks from the world’s great museums. Search by theme, style, subject, or any description you can imagine.
Source: The Last Museum
Author: Bojan Bjelić
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The Last Museum
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AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
AI makes projects with weak engineering culture fail much faster.
Today, implementation is cheap. You are paid to make good decisions. To build software that will scale while managing complexity.
Source: AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
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How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
My rating: 3 of 5 starsHow to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
On the trail of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, very funny at moments. However, the play with footnotes that could be annoying (perhaps only on Kindle) and the fact that it ends on a cliffhanger take away some stars – 3 out of 5.
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We Must Act Now
A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy
- AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years.
- This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. It could bring risks, including large-scale job displacement, as well as opportunities such as major gains in living standards.
- Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.
Source: We Must Act Now
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Hobbes’ Internet Timeline – the definitive ARPAnet & Internet history
1969 Nodes are stood up as BBN builds each IMP [Honeywell DDP-516 mini computer with 12K of memory]; AT&T provides lines bundled to 50kbps
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1982 DCA and ARPA establish the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), as the protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, for ARPANET. (:vgc:)
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1991 World-Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN; Tim Berners-Lee developer (:pb1:). First Web server is nxoc01.cern.ch, launched in Nov 1990 and later renamed info.cern.ch.
Source: Hobbes’ Internet Timeline – the definitive ARPAnet & Internet history
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AI Economics for Dummies – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
4. Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage to his property in excess of $50 million. Benjamin loses another $5 million due to the loss of productivity from his one remaining employee, who no longer guides a plow but instead spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit. Goldman Sachs builds an altar to Benjamin in their lobby and cuts out the heart of a junior analyst on it every Friday. They call it “Blood Sacrifice Friday.” The name isn’t catchy, but the event becomes a management favorite nonetheless.
Source: AI Economics for Dummies – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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Your Name in Landsat
The internet still has some very nice pages and tools.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/landsat/outreach/your-name-in-landsat/
