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By @culturaltutor at Twitter Arial A classic font, designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders, and once the default for things like PowerPoint and Excel. But Arial has a secret: it’s a knock-off with exactly the same letter width as another font in this list… Arnold Böcklin Designed by Otto Weisert in 1904 … Les mer
Cal Newport, Oct 3, 2108 Recently, I’ve been dipping in and out of Edward Tenner’s provocative 1996 book, When Things Bites Back. In following one of Tenner’s footnotes I came across a fascinating 1992 academic study from the National Review of Productivity, authored by the Georgia Tech economist Peter G. Sassone. The paper has an … Les mer
Could humans maintain an ecosystem on the Moon or Mars? In 1991, 8 researchers locked themselves inside this 3.14-acre sealed structure in the Arizona desert for 2 years to test just that. It remains the largest and longest experiment of its kind, ever.Biosphere 2 was built to be an isolated, self-sufficient ecosystem, modelled after the … Les mer
THE BIG PICTURE AI encompasses a wide range of technologies, including: MACHINE LEARNING CATEGORIES Machine learning can be divided into three main categories: MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS There are various forms of machine learning algorithms. USE CASES AI is being used across a wide range of industries, from healthcare to finance, to manufacturing. In healthcare, AI … Les mer
By Invitation | Artificial intelligenceYuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisationStorytelling computers will change the course of human history, says the historian and philosopher Apr 28th 2023 FEARS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) have haunted humanity since the very beginning of the computer age. Hitherto these fears focused on … Les mer
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences Douglas Rushkoff Sun 4 Sep 2022 10.00 BST As a humanist who writes about the impact of digital technology on our lives, I am often mistaken for … Les mer
Julia Black Apr 3, 2023, 10:30 AM In early October, Ye culminated a dayslong spree of inflammatory comments about Black and Jewish people with a tweet declaring, «I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.» The outrage was immediate. Companies like Balenciaga and JPMorgan announced … Les mer
Kvalitativ forskning Eksempler på strategier for datainnsamling i kvalitativ forskning inkluderer individuelle dybdeintervjuer, strukturerte og ustrukturerte intervjuer, fokusgrupper, narrativt innhold, dokumentarisk analyse, observasjoner fra deltakere og arkivforskning. Kvalitativ forskning er undersøkende forskning som brukes for å få en forståelse av de underliggende årsakene, meningene og motivasjonene. Det beste eksemplet på en kvalitativ forskningsmetode er ustrukturerte … Les mer
Everything that humanity has ever accomplished beyond basic survival has been motivated by a fundamental and irreducible fear of non-existence. Our conception of self and self-esteem generally is simply a buffer against the anxiety that comes with recognizing that we will cease to be. Culture is just a massive shared delusion to mitigate our fear … Les mer
The ethologist John B. Calhoun coined the term “behavioral sink” to describe the collapse in behavior which resulted from overcrowding. Over a number of years, Calhoun conducted over-population experiments on rats. He built a mouse paradise with beautiful buildings and limitless food. He introduced eight mice to the population. Two years later, the mice had … Les mer