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Michael Ondaatje talks about his 1992 Booker prize-winning novel The English Patient.

The Booker-winning novelist is the sixth writer to take up residency in A Room for London on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank. Listen to the thoughts inspired by his stay

Michael Ondaatje, the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion, discusses his new novel Divisadero, a remarkable tale of intersecting lives that ranges across continents

Michael Ondaatje reads from several of his poems, spanning both decades and continents as he takes us on a meandering journey through his career as poet.

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What can we learn from a 45-year-old Swedish manifesto that helped inspire the movement for workers' history?

I look into the resource consumption of data centers and present my state of knowledge. I ask more questions than I give answers. The in...

#videopodcast #ai #indepthinterviews #innovativeminds #artificialintelligence #sapiens In this riveting episode of Innovative Minds, Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Minister, and @YuvalNoahHarari, the acclaimed author of 'Sapiens,' delve into AI's profound influence on everyday existence. While acknowledging its potential benefits, they caution against its possible authoritarian tend...

The author of the Twitter Migration report shares his expertise on social media's thorny issues and how the social web offers a better way.

As we continue to record from our homes in the time of COVID, we start by chatting about VR once again, even though Adam continues to be unconvinced. From there, the gang talks through Contact Tracing improvements and then how COBOL and technical debt has brought about a new group of superheroes.    Links and Extra Reading @michaelfolkson: Yesterday I co-hosted a Socratic Seminar in VR Apple acqui...

This is the slightly edited version of our with film director, producer, screenwriter, rapper, and communist Boots Riley. He is the lead vocalist of the musical groups The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He wrote and directed the film Sorry to Bother You and is the creator and director of the television series I’m A Virgo.  We talked to Boots Riley about the recent labor upsurge, including th...

Ted Young Talks about 'Human Learning: How We Learn & Why it Matters' at https://SiliconValley-CodeCamp.com in San Jose Hosted by PayPal Understanding how humans learn helps us inform, teach, and communicate better. Find out how to apply research to create better docs, videos, and presentations. Session Details: https://SiliconValley-CodeCamp.com/Session/2018/human-learning-how-we-lear...

Learn what makes the programming language Rust a unique technology, such as the memory safety guarantees that enable more people to write performant systems-level code. Scott talks to Rust core contributor Carol Nichols about what she's so excited about Rust and the future.

Wes McKinney makes the case for a shared infrastructure for data science, discusses the open source community's efforts on Apache Arrow, and offers a vision for seamless computation and data sharing across languages. Subscribe to O'Reilly on YouTube: http://goo.gl/n3QSYi Follow O'Reilly on Twitter: http://twitter.com/oreillymedia Facebook: http://facebook.com/OReilly Google: http://plu...

Join us for a conversation on the seedy underside to Tech’s past, present, and future. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— If the industry’s most credulous boosters are to be taken at their word, the contemporary tech industry is an economic freight train driven by big-brained disrupters who are charting a path toward a future of mutual prosperity, boundless leisure, and unfettered in...

Introduction Welcome to this deep dive into the world of Large Language Models (LLMs) and vector databases for the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. Our guest today is Eden Marco (), a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud and a best-selling Udemy instructor with a passion for General Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). In this episode, we unpack the complexities and intricacies of LLMs, explore the role of vector d...

Maintaining OpenStreetMap.org Andy Allan I volunteer as a maintainer for the "openstreetmap-website" project - the open-source code that powers the website, the API and the core database for OpenStreetMap. But what exactly does being a maintainer involve? In this talk I'll be showing you behind the scenes. What do I work on in a typical week? How do I choose what to do? What makes a...

In the mythology of open source, programming languages are created by people who seemingly have no direct economic function. They are just really good at compilers (somehow) and have a house to live in (somehow) and have a lifetime to devote to creating a useful programming language (somehow!) We will examine specific organizations that create programming languages. Where do the salaries for compi...

Clay Shirky, “Living with AI Discombobulation” hosted by HLS and Ostrom Workshop Small technological changes can make life better or worse. Anti-lock brakes are good, robocalls bad. Big changes – automobiles, the internet, smartphones, now AI – make life weirder. With large-scale change, it becomes impossible to say if things have gotten better or worse, because the technology upends old benchmark...

What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence"—a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind, such as in its complex neural networks. Matteo Pasquinelli argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations. Here he is interviewed...

The Monthly Wikimedia Research Showcase is a public showcase of recent research by the Wikimedia Foundation's Research Team and guest presenters from the academic community. The showcase is hosted at the Wikimedia Foundation every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time/18:30 p.m. CET https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase

Tamara Kneese | Twitter (X): @tamigraph | Mastodon: @tamigraph Tamara Kneese is a senior researcher and project director of Data & Society’s AIMLab. Before joining D&S, she was lead researcher at Green Software Foundation, director of developer engagement on the green software team at Intel, and assistant professor of media studies and director of gender and sexualities studies at the Univ...

New data from federal scientists suggests there may be way more lithium underneath the Salton Sea in Southern California than previously thought. The report from researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory finds there could be up to 18 million metric tons of lithium there. That would be enough to power more than 380 million batteries for electric vehicles. How big of a deal could the...

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Sustainable policies for our water resources.