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I will argue that we need an evolutionary theory that encompasses the subjective experiences of animals in order to develop an accurate scientific account of the natural world. We ignore them at our intellectual peril, because the
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“In his own time, the Cid was a warrior of legendary stature among both Christians and Muslims of the peninsula, who praised or cursed him not according to their religious affiliation but according to whether he had appeared to them as a liberator or a scourge. This was a culture that glorified brutality in the pursuit of wealth and glory. Ballads extolling his feats, the medieval equivalent of today’s narco-corridas, which rhapsodize the exploits of modern frontier outlaws, were sung around countless campfires.”
― Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain
― Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain
“No army, no matter how clean its reputation, walked away from war untainted. And no leader, no matter how noble, could help but sink into the crem when he stepped into the game of conquest.”
― Rhythm of War
― Rhythm of War
“But the real story is how narrow Duplex was. For all the fantastic resources of Google (and its parent company, Alphabet), the system that they created was so narrow it could handle just three things: restaurant reservations, hair salon appointments, and the opening hours of a few selected businesses. By the time the demo was publicly released, on Android phones, even the hair salon appointments and the opening hour queries were gone. Some of the world’s best minds in AI, using some of the biggest clusters of computers in the world, had produced a special-purpose gadget for making nothing but restaurant reservations. It doesn’t get narrower than that.”
― Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
― Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
“A Disaster is the end result of poor management. When your employee believes totally losing their shit is a productive strategy, it’s because they believe it’s the only option left for making anything change.”
― Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
― Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“La necesidad de construir consensos es la pata floja y uno de los principales desafíos de big data en la cuestión pública. Tal vez un complejo algoritmo pueda producir (e informarnos) una tasa de pobreza o una medición del PBI sobre la base de datos tomados por un robot computacional directamente de internet. De hecho, es un procedimiento sencillo, que se usa en la práctica. El verdadero desafío es dotar a este algoritmo de un consenso que garantice su credibilidad y relevancia. Dotar de consenso a cualquier estadística (proveniente de medios tradicionales o de big data) es tal vez el desafío más delicado que plantea la masividad de datos: el de la construcción de convenciones útiles.”
― Borges, big data y yo: Guía nerd (y un poco rea) para perderse en el laberinto borgeano (Ciencia que ladra… serie Mayor)
― Borges, big data y yo: Guía nerd (y un poco rea) para perderse en el laberinto borgeano (Ciencia que ladra… serie Mayor)
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