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money, power, and populism in the AI buildout

How do we fundamentally discover new things? In a letter to Maurice Solovine, Albert Einstein conceptualized discovery as a cyclical process involving an intuitive 'jump' from sens…

My father is in the National Survey of Health & Development study of people born in Britain in March 1946, "the longest continually running major birth cohort study in the world": …

Flourish | Senior Developer | Full-time | REMOTE (UK) | https://flourish.studio/jobs/senior-developer Flourish is an online tool for creating beautiful data graphics, presentations…

Comment from a tractor-owning friend: That's a very good piece capturing a lot of the issues (esp GPS retrofitting which is easy and make a huge difference). The one thing it doesn…

Article is paywalled, so here are the key bits: Tens of thousands of political ads have gone missing from Facebook’s public archive less than 48 hours before the British general el…

The Professional Pilots Rumour Network: https://www.pprune.org/ Which is pretty much what the name suggests. Airline pilots, both passenger and commercial flights, swapping news an…

London, UK | Flourish (data visualisation) | Lead Developer | ONSITE (part-time remote ok) | https://flourish.studio/jobs/lead-fullstack-developer/ Flourish is a next-generation pl…

This re-submission has more comments, including from the developers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164058

The Indonesian government's attempts to stop burning are hindered by a lack of proper land ownership data. From the Jakarta Post: "The one-map policy — a comprehensive map of land …