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How to Find a Quality Mask (and Avoid Counterfeits) →
Knowing which mask to pick and making sure it’s not a fake requires the sleuthing skills of a forensic investigator. Our guide can help.
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Predicting the next NBA MVP using Machine Learning →
Train and validate a machine learning model on data of historical NBA MVP candidates to forecast the 2021–2022 season MVP
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My first impressions of web3 →
Iterating quickly on centralized platforms is already outpacing the distributed protocols and consolidating control into platforms.
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You Tested Positive for Covid. Now What? →
The Omicron variant has fueled a rise in Covid-19 cases across the United States. Here’s what you need to know if you get infected.
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"When the money and enterprise guys show up, you know it’s over." Why Web3 is not Web 3.0
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Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3 →
let’s focus on the interface between crypto and the real world that people live in
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Solutions to America’s Local Journalism Crisis: Consolidated Literature Review →
Printed newspapers are a manufacturing business.
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Inside the NBA’s ambitious plans for a personalized streaming service for basketball fans →
NBA executives outlined the league’s plans to bring the game even closer to fans, from virtual ads to biometrics.
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Will the metaverse bring the second coming of Second Life? →
In this age when we’re celebrating the “new” metaverse companies like Roblox, which has 43 million daily active users, it’s easy to forget that Second Life is still around. It has a $600 million annual gross domestic product (GDP). More than 2 billion user-generated assets have been created to date. It has 200,000 daily active users, and it processes more than 345 million annual transactions. It pays more than $80.4 million to creators annually.
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Primer on NFTs
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Beyond Engagement: Aligning Algorithmic Recommendations With Prosocial Goals →
Good primer and reading list on the intersection of recommenders with social issues such as addiction and polarization.
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Opinion: Our constitutional crisis is already here →
The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves.
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Why some esoteric technology never breaks into the mainstream.
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Why Silicon Valley's Optimization Mindset Sets Us Up for Failure →
The danger of treating everything in life is an optimization problem.
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Predicting What Songs Phish Will Play Next with Deep Learning →
Using machine learning to try and predict what songs Phish will play next.
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The Invisible Hand Behind the Tokyo Olympics →
Good backgrounder on Dentsu's history in general and specifics on their puppet-master role behind the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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Uber is a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). Every bezzle ends.
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A Framework for Ethical AI at the United Nations →
An overview of the ethical concerns in artificial intelligence and the framework that is needed to mitigate those risks