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…what slips in and out. Flows of bits, of migrants, of gold and patents and medicines -— all of these life-giving forces can be controlled, bent for good or stopped for ill, as they pass through or collide with gates. By gates I mean not only in-out passages but all of the tools t...

…t, now that I've learned how to have orgasms... orgasms aren't even my favorite part of sex. It's a long article, and I can see how people would miss that, but I did say it and I think it's important. It may be ironic that I spent so much time feeling terrible and broken and dep...

… of employmentto-adult-population and new home sales per 1,000 adults and how these measures strongly indicate a Republican victory. Using historical data for the Gallup poll question “are you satisfied” and presidential election dates, this section would point to an overwhelming...

…ike elected legislatures were originally intended to do. If we have the data that go into and out of each decision, we can easily ask, Is this a fair algorithm? Is this AI doing things that we as humans believe are ethical? This human-in-the-loop approach is called “open algorit...

…normal form. The symbol ‘3’ means ‘there exists’ and R stands for relationship in this equation. All logical statements can be translated into this form using a purely mechanical process. There is even a website that will do this for you. It’s useful but I don't recommend it as e...

…ore useful to talk in terms of how seriously engaged with Islam, the Koran and other texts, a Muslim is. What is significant is how Muslims today are using Islam and most of those who are in power either throughout a large territory or within a small community tend toward, if not...

…n Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 6:16 AM, edrobles erobles wrote: Dear Jeffrey, need to be in Dubai on January 15, 2017. Then, We can fly to New York and meet you there on the 20 th. If you happen to have a survey on the Islands available? It will be very helpful to us (to get familiar wit...

This can be found on the Internet at: http://clarissethorn.com/blog/2011/04/22/going-under/ ORGASMIC "DYSFUNCTION": [storytime] A Unified Theory of Orgasm At one point during my blogging career, an editor for the iconic feminist publication Ms. Magazine got in touch and asked...

What Can’t You Teach? 37 The bottom line here is one of initial belief systems and fundamental personality characteristics, coupled with the notion of truly held goals. You cannot teach someone something that: e does not help them achieve some goal they actually hold e is not...

…een working hard in AI on enabling robots to do just that. Implicitly, we’ve assumed that if we’re successful—if robots can take any problem definition and turn into a policy for how to act—we will get robots that are useful to people and to society. We haven’t been too wrong so...

…ster, Eric Horvitz, and others) An informed public is important to the healthy functioning of democratic societies. We can expect potential forthcoming advances around the control of information feeds with applications in spreading propaganda, via spreading false or misleading i...

… of what has been the greatest bull market in bonds ever. We experienced a historic US Presidential election and Republican sweep of Congress on November 9th. Later that same month, OPEC reached a historic deal to reduce crude production by 1.2mn b/d with non-OPEC producers deliv...

can’ t take criticism. Comedians are big pussies. So to one side you say, ‘If you don’ t like a joke, stay out of the comedy clubs.’ To the other side you say, ‘If you don’ t like criticism, stop Googling yourself every ten seconds, because nobody’ s making you read it.’ It’ s p...

…th Black Swans. In fact, regularities and patterns appear many places on the mesh of connection that surrounds us. They can be searched and mapped and studied with the tools of data science, but of course they can also be felt. They may surprise you if you don’t know how to look...

…n routine. I’m doing more and feel relaxed for a change. Second, no one should be allowed to work remotely unless they can show increased productivity, and I’m the perfect experiment. If they can show it, however, why not let them do it on a trial basis? It lowers costs for the...