[nonostantement #238] century of the self / machine learning & paywall / 3d printed lens
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[Video] - The Century of the Self (Full Documentary)
Adam Curtis Documentary.We weren’t meant to see this many beautiful faces
In a world of normalised filters, cosmetic surgery and beauty tweaks, “beauty overstimulation” is now a thing. But what’s it doing to our brains?Why Neighborhoods and Small Businesses Thrive in Tokyo
The new book “Emergent Tokyo” looks at how the city was shaped not by disorder or grand design, but by the intermingling of small choices that create spontaneous patterns from the bottom up.The science of why you have great ideas in the shower
It has nothing to do with getting clean—and everything to do with your state of mind.The Beginning of the End of Millennial Discourse
When you consider that what’s being displaced as the paragon of cool is just a suburban white minority’s youth culture, you get a better sense of why we keep having this conversation.Google Finds ‘Inoculating’ People Against Misinformation Helps Blunt Its Power
British researchers and a team from Google found that teaching people how to spot misinformation made people more skeptical of it.OSTP Issues Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay
Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) updated U.S. policy guidance to make the results of taxpayer-supported research immediately available to the American public at no cost.
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How The New York Times Uses Machine Learning To Make Its Paywall Smarter
The New York Times launched its paywall in March 2011, beginning its journey as a subscription-first news and lifestyle service.You Can 3D Print and Build This 164mm f/2.5 Lens for Less Than $15
Photographer Felix Steele has created a design for a 3D-printed 164mm f/2.5 lens that has no fasteners or screws, uses affordable glass elements, and can be built at home for less than $15.
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[Video] - How the fisheye lens took over music
The story of how that lens was developed in the first place might be just as interesting as all the ways it has been used since its invention.
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Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone
”[…] Another ironic detail here is that the company’s advertising system uses data from its other services and your Apple account to decide which ads to serve. That doesn’t feel like a privacy-first policy.”Spyware Scandals Are Ripping Through Europe
The latest crisis that rocked the Greek government shows the bloc’s surveillance problem goes beyond the notorious NSO Group.Bert Hubert: “I made a very very simple tool that makes some noise every time your computer sends data to Google. Here a demo on the official Dutch government jobs site. The noise starts while typing the domain name already.”
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