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I would recommend reading Daniel Boorstin's book, The Americans: The Democratic Experience. https://www.amazon.com/Americans-Democratic-Experience-Danie... There are fascinating ch…

France has a long history of attempting to protect its cultural industries, including film and publishing. It's not wrong. There are other things that are important aside from cust…

There are plenty of people piloting drones from trailers in New Mexico. They can take the blame. But they are not exactly pilots in the Chuck Yeager sense.

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This makes me think that pilots are going the way of cavalry officers. An exclusive club of people with skills that matter less and less. I wonder which activities, in the future, …

It is often worth it in the short term to trick sources. But it has consequences for the individual doing the tricking, over the long term. And it has negative externalities for re…

I used to work as a technical recruiter and made several hires out of coding bootcamps (though never from Lambda, which didn't exist at the time). One rule of thumb that we drew af…

I clicked expected to see big ML ideas explained, and all I found was Google scrubbing its AI ethics reputation after the debacle last year. I hope they devote their energies to ac…