Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

In other fields, there’s an understanding of how common it is for our actions not to line up with internal goals. In economics, revealed preference theory says that what we value is better revealed by our behaviors than our judgements. ‮..

The world’s first comprehensive laws to regulate artif... have been agreed in a landmark deal after a marathon 37-... between the European Parliament and EU member states.

Artificial intelligence allowed Pakistan’s former prim... Khan to campaign from behind bars on Monday, with a voic... opposition leader giving an impassioned speech on his be...

“So you’re willing to take the margin of error of using artificial intelligence, risking collateral damage and civilians dying, and risking attacking by mistake, and to live with it,” they added.

Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public,

Between 1840 and 1872, more than 25,000 enslaved Africans were brought on to St Helena from slaving voyages intercepted by the British Navy. About one-third died shortly after and were buried on the island in unmarked graves.

It is a distinct language that has survived against the odds for centuries in a tiny pocket of central Sweden, where just 2,500 people speak it today. And yet, despite bearing little resemblance to Swedish, Elfdalian is considered to be onl...

Everyone knows Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”... everyone gets it wrong.

We could call this strange geography created by technology “AirSpace.” It’s the realm of coffee shops, bars, startup offices, and co-live / work spaces that share the same hallmarks everywhere you go:

However, this new technology has not yet fully delivered on this productivity promise: Nearly half (47%) of employees using AI say they have no idea how to achieve the productivity gains their employers expect, and 77% say these tools have ...

This past summer, a heated debate broke out about a tool used in courts across the country to help make bail and sentencing decisions. It’s a controversy that touches on some of the big criminal justice questions facing our society. And i...

The paper, updated this month, by economist Xavier Gabai... University, integrates behavioral economics findings int... a New Keynesian macroeconomic model—one that includes ... decisionmaking and markets that aren’t perfectly compe... the kind of

It’s a typical tangle of tech acronyms. CPUs. GPUs. TP... it’s the subtext that matters. With cloud computing, c... Microsoft and Google and Amazon are driving so much of t... technology that those alternative chips will drive the w... apps and on

In 1954, Darrell Huff wrote a neat little book called Ho... Statistics, a how-to guide for marketers to mislead and ... into believing just about anything with the right graphi... well-placed stat. Computationally speaking, we’ve come... 1954, but i

stories in The Guardian and on BuzzFeed revealed that th... of 55,000 was the registered home of at least 100 pro-Tr... of them filled with sensationalist, utterly fake news

The past several years have not been kind to the world's... working poor. The foundations on which we have built the... commerce—the markets, the banks, and government—have...
Nevertheless, there is one institution that has continue ...
This is the

Current Mayor and Tory candidate Boris Johnson told us: "We're making the case now to central government for more funding. I'm making the argument to the Treasury that a pound spent in Croydon is far more of value to the country than a pound spent in Stra

Syncing data on the web has always been a pain. Either y... or you buckled down and built it yourself with an API. I... technical you had few places to turn for help.
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In this essay, I want to offer a competing narrative to the popular but woefully misnamed “sharing economy” (which, of course, isn’t sharing, unless you tell your kids that buying and selling toys from other five year olds is “shari...