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Love this post from Steve Schlafman. I was talking about this feeling a couple weeks ago when I was at a conference with about 150 folks. You could just feel that the folks running the event put an enormous amount of care into the whole thing. I just felt (and trusted) i was in good…
It turns out, the job of a translator is immensely difficult and we (readers) under-estimate how much latitude and art is in their work. Scrivvium (a history game company) did a cool data project to gauge readers preferences on the various Odyssey translations. Their methodology in and of itself is worth the read. I took…
Why do we think about what we think about? Why do we know what we know? How do we know it’s true? This talk from Yuval Noah Harari has amped up my anxiety about what AI will do to us while it works for us. Key takeaways: We’ve given the keys to our society and…