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On toxic moral license and the mythos of male scientific genius
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How do extraordinarily complex emergent phenomena — like ants assembling themselves into living bridges, or tiny water and air molecules forming into swirling hurricanes — spontaneously arise from systems of much simpler elements?
It may seem daunting to memorize a 24-million-digit number, but with these tips you'll be well on your way
AlphaZero taught itself from scratch chess, shogi and Go, beating a world-champion program in each case and discovering new and creative playing strategies that hint at the potential to tackle other complex problems.
What may be most surprising is that we humans have done as well as we have in games that seem, now, to have been made for machines.
Immigrants aren’t a disease risk. Neanderthals weren’t necessarily savages. Juul isn’t cool.
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China's Chang'e 4 mission to the moon has something else up its sleeve
In the end, it’s irrational to decide what’s true in your daily life using empirical evidence, but then rely on wishful-thinking and ancient superstitions to judge the “truths” undergirding your faith.
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