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Could Technological Change Solve the Problem of Inequality? - Medium (No paywall)
Today, a lot of people are making claims about how AI will be able to equalize many things by making it possible to have individualized teaching of many basic subjects, greater access to pre-digested information tailored to your demands, serving as a free research associate, democratizing access to dealing with bureaucratic drudge tasks, etc. And yet, we have heard these claims before.
The computer, coupled with the web, was supposed to have been a democratizing agent by bringing information to people’s fingertips while making easier the solution of semi-technical tasks such as creating and filling out business forms, doing a large number of advanced calculations without need of supplementary equipment, access to orders of magnitude more books and papers than any physical library contained, cheap access to music, and videos, as well as promoting learning through recordings of classes in many subjects from some of the most renowned universities in the world. Etc., etc. This is eerily similar to many of the more modest promises made for the invention of movies or the phonograph, and likely goes back to the earliest tools and innovations such as the ax, the wheel, writing, and paper.
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How to Stay Sane While Working From Home
Have an “in” routine and an “out” routine. One in the morning to go “in” to work, and one in the afternoon to get “out” of work. They can be simple and short, it’s the repetition and consistency that make them work. Think Pavlov’s dogs, except you’re cueing yourself to either get into work mode, or to get out of work mode.
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Fall asleep fast — 3 breathing techniques that help me drift off easily
The three best breathing techniques I've learned for falling asleep fast and lowering stress at night
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Catastrophic Risk: Investing and Business Implications
A blog about markets, finance and all things money related.
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How To Deal With Technical Debt
So, instead of stabilizing the situation, the business keeps adding more features, and the technical debt grows. Because of this, we usually say that technical debt is not a technical problem. For that reason, every software development team must try their best to prevent the technical debt from accumulating so it doesn't result in the worst-case scenario, which is a project halt.
Technical debt is everything that stops us from developing software quickly. Martin Fowler explains in his technical debt quadrant four different pathways that lead to technical debt creation [4], but there are more. We can see this, especially with startup companies that want to go fast and don’t think about quality first.
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Taming "Lazy" ChatGPT : Strategies for Comprehensive and Reliable Outputs
You've been noticing ChatGPT getting lazier - truncating code, omitting details, making silly mistakes that waste your time. Maddening! This guide reveals prompting secrets to transform the AI from an inconsistent frustration into a tireless, reliable assistant.
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Why Gen-Z and Millennials Are More Likely to Jump Straight Into Entrepreneurship After Graduation - Inc.com (No paywall)
Young people are turning down job offers to launch their own companies. Here's a look at the reasons.
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Climeworks Kicks Off Operations at World's Largest Carbon Removal Facility - Inc.com (No paywall)
The Swiss company announced the opening of a new facility in Iceland that will allow it to capture 36,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually.
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Apple iPad ad obliterates the tools of human creativity with a hydraulic press to hype its ‘thinnest product yet.’ Offended consumers reversed the ad to make it a less ‘horrific corporate nightmare' - Fortune (No paywall)
The spot appears to be having the unintended effect of turning people off their devices: “This ad effectively convinced me I need less technology in my life,” a user posted on X.
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Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail
Google scientists have modelled a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution, revealing cells with previously undiscovered features.
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