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3 days agoLevel Up bkool
Level 33
bkool is now level 33 with 3,145,450 XP.
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4 days agoCurrent Event bkool
Astronaut William Thornton, who invented space shuttle treadmill, dies at 91
Former NASA astronaut William "Bill" Thornton, who used his own inventions to measure and combat the ill-effects of microgravity while on board two space shuttle missions, has died at the age of 91.
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5 days agoAnalysis bkool
The Limits of Logic
Logicians don't rule the world or get the most done. Could it be that a consistent world view is neither desirable nor achievable? If we abandon the straightjacket of rationality might this lead to a more powerful and exciting future, or is it a heresy that leads to madness?
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7 days agoCurrent Event bkool
NASA will soon fire up the most powerful rocket ever built
This liquid fuel engine is a beast.
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12 days agoCurrent Event bkool
The Proud Boys Are Raking In Donations from a Christian Crowdfunding Site
A day before the Proud Boys are preparing to join thousands of pro-Trump supporters in Washington for “Stop the Steal” protests, the violent street-fighting group is raking in massive donations from right-wing crowdfunding campaigns designed to fund protective gear, communications equipment, and legal defenses.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event bkool
The Turing Test is obsolete. It’s time to build a new barometer for AI
This year marks 70 years since Alan Turing published his paper introducing the concept of the Turing Test in response to the question, “Can machines think?” The test’s goal was to determine if a machine can exhibit conversational behavior indistinguishable from a human. Turing predicted that by the year 2000, an average human would have less than a 70% chance of distinguishing an AI from a human in an imitation game where who is responding—a human or an AI—is hidden from the evaluator.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event bkool
Zoom woes reveal companies’ struggles to reconcile US, China systems
Recently revealed US charges against a China-based Zoom employee for censoring virtual meetings commemorating Beijing’s crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in 1989 show how the space for global technology firms to operate in both China and the US is narrowing amid an economic, technological and ideological rivalry between the two countries, according to analysts.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event bkool
A Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning
President Donald Trump appeared no closer to signing an end-of-year COVID relief and spending bill Sunday as unemployment aid expired, the government barrels toward a mid-pandemic shutdown and lawmakers implored him to break the impasse he created after Congress approved the deal.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event bkool
The federal eviction moratorium expires in January. It could leave 40 million Americans homeless.
Without federal intervention, as many as 40 million people could be displaced amid an ongoing and still worsening pandemic.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event bkool
Amazon's New Driverless Taxi Doesn't Have a Steering Wheel, Accelerator, or Brakes
After almost a year of limiting our contact with the people in our lives and humanity in general, it’s hard to imagine a future where we freely move about our cities and towns going to meetings, errands, and social events. And it may be even harder to envision doing so in driverless taxis that look sort of like giant toasters on wheels. But go ahead and fire up your imagination—and your hope for a near future filled with socialization instead of social distancing—because Amazon is doing ju...
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1 month agoCurrent Event bkool
Hundreds of mostly maskless people attend Christmas singalong in Thousand Oaks organized by actor Kirk Cameron
Summoned by the actor Kirk Cameron, hundreds of maskless people belted out Christmas carols in a Thousand Oaks parking lot Sunday night in a protest against coronavirus restrictions. Cameron, known for his roles in the sitcom “Growing Pains” and Christian films such as “Mercy Rule,” organized and promoted the event on Instagram, drawing rebukes from many for potentially spreading the coronavirus.
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1 month agoCurrent Event bkool
Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
The doomsday machine was never supposed to exist. It was meant to be a thought experiment that went like this: Imagine a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life. Now suppose that machine is buried deep underground, but connected to a computer, which is in turn hooked up to sensors in cities and towns across the United States.
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1 month agoCurrent Event bkool
Apple Fitness+ reviews: Apple Watch features and engaging instructors make it a compelling Peloton competitor - 9to5Mac
Apple Fitness+ will officially debut later today after being announced back in September. Ahead of the launch, a handful of early reviews are now available, and they widely praise the integration with Apple Watch, the variety of the workouts, and more.
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1 month agoCurrent Event bkool
Researchers identify a new personality construct that describes the tendency to see oneself as a victim
A new personality construct has been defined that describes people who persistently see themselves as victims within interpersonal conflicts. The research was published in Personality and Individual Differences.
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1 month agoCurrent Event bkool
Google’s star AI ethics researcher, one of a few Black women in the field, says she was fired for a critical email
Timnit Gebru, a star researcher who has criticized the company’s lack of diversity, emailed co-workers that she felt “constantly dehumanized." Her managers, she said, abruptly fired her shortly after.