“Last month, a Russian software developer named Andrey Mima announced that he had been able to track down two women he’d taken a photo of in 2010, with nothing more than their faces.”
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“Sometimes the only way to beat a troll is to troll even harder.”
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“Google uses machine learning across a wide range of its products. In order to continually improve our models, it’s crucial that the training process be as fast as possible.”
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“An hour’s drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin, there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem. The plot has been owned by the Vogelman family for more than a hundred years, though the current owner, Joyce Taylor née Vogelman, 82, now rents it out.”
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“*Domestic gross over $45M, inflation-adjusted. Using IMDB box office, 2,500 have hit this threshold. In January 2016, researchers reported that men speak more often than women in Disney’s princess films. We validated this claim and doubled the sample size to 30 Disney films, including Pixar.”
“This is Episode 12 of Real Future, Fusion’s documentary series about technology and society. More episodes available at realfuture.tv.”
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“Here are 3 free startup ideas: • Facebook without the algorithm • Twitter without the algorithm • Instagram without the algorithm”
“AlphaGo’s victories against legendary Go player Lee Se-dol over the last few days mark a major milestone in AI research.”
““You know, there’s always that fear that an unreasonable person is going to show up.” Michael Saba, on his house being The Bermuda Triangle of cell phones. Strangers keep coming to Mike and Christina’s house looking for their stolen cell phones. Nobody knows why.”