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I don’t follow football/soccer but I like that there’s a Muslim soccer player who’s so good that he made the city of Liverpool measurably less racist

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Engels on “Social Murder”

Andrei Tarkovsky

"There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?' And someone else said, 'A poor choice of words in 1954'," he says. "And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we're having now." So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. "It's genuinely amazing that...these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text," he says. But, in his view, that doesn't make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, "but no one wants to use that term, because it's not as sexy".

'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023

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Some hikers warm up their feet in a slow flowing hot stream after crossing an icy river.

Iceland

1978

the pearly parakeet, also known in aviculture as the pearly conure, is a small parrot endemic to north-central brazil. they are a vocal and gregarious species, known for their loud screeches when in flight with their flock. they are highly social, and in captivity, tend to do well with a same-species companion. they primarily feed on fruits in the wild, although their dietary habits haven’t been heavily recorded. both sexes are equally colorful, with small variations in color & patterns across subspecies.

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