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Where does memory end and imagination begin? Autobiographical writing has occupied many of the most eloquent minds of our time. A panel of brilliant, envelope-pushing memoirists examines what happens when the most intimate details of a writer’s life become the subject of his or her professional work.

Course homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/berkeley-cs294-158-sp20/home Lecture Instructor: Alec Radford (OpenAI) Course Instructors: Pieter Abbeel, Aravind Srinivas, Peter Chen, Jonathan Ho, Alex Li, Wilson Yan CS294-158-SP20: Deep Unsupervised Learning UC Berkeley, Spring 2020

Join Jason Resnikoff and Nelson Lichtenstein for a discussion of Resnikoff's new book "Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work." This event aired on March 1. About the Book: "Labor's End" traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the...

Dr. Rebecca Charbonneau is a science and SETI historian and a Karl Jansky Fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Professor Sir Terry Pratchett Inaugural Lecture "The Importance of Being Amazed about Absolutely Everything". 4 November 2010, Trinity College Dublin Also see video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZnDAzHA3WM&feature=channel_video_title

How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem - Alberto Garcia, Igalia SteamOS is the Linux-based operating system that runs on Valve's Steam Deck. SteamOS is based on existing open source components, and follows an approach of contributing as much as possible to the upstream projects that it uses. This presentation will cover some of the improvements that the development of SteamOS has c...

The No State Solution: A Dialogue with Palestinian sociologist Mohammed Bamyeh and Israeli political scientist Uri Gordon How can anarchist perspectives contribute to Palestinian liberation? Join Palestinian sociologist Mohammed Bamyeh and Israeli political scientist Uri Gordon as they consider this question. Professor Mohammed Bamyeh, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, is author o...

Servo Web Rendering Engine Reboot - Manuel Rego, Igalia Created by Mozilla Research in 2012, the Servo project is a Research & Development effort meant to create an independent, modular, embeddable web engine that allows developers to deliver content and applications using web standards. Servo is an experimental browser engine written in Rust, taking advantage of the memory safety properties a...

Lin Clark joined the show to talk about Code Cartoons, her work at Mozilla in the emerging technologies group, Rust, Servo, and WebAssembly (aka Wasm), the Rust community’s big goal in 2018 for Rust to become a web language (thanks in part to Wasm), passing objects between Rust and JavaScript, Rust libraries depending ...

Director of the Media Economies Design Lab and author of Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life., Nathan Schneider shows us how the styles of governance embedded in our online platforms change the way we understand governance in real life. 📕 Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life is now available. About Nathan Schneider Nathan Schneider is an assistant professor of med...

In 1968, the infamously grumpy computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra published a polemic called “Go To Statement Considered Harmful” in which he made a striking argument: GOTO, a programming language feature widely considered essential at the time, was such a bad idea that not only should programmers stop using it, but it should be removed from high-level languages altogether. A decades-long fight en...

Aboriginal scholar and author Tyson Yunkaporta illustrates how deep time thinking, born of an intimate relationship between a place and its community, can radically reshape our relationship to the cosmic order.

Linus emphasizes the challenge of finding and retaining maintainers due to the complexity of people's relationships.

Summary: The conversation covers the vision for Zed and the technological choices made, the importance of owning the full stack, and the trade-offs of building everything in-house. The conversation covers topics such as gold-plated parts of Zed, rewriting and learning, technology and user perception, and choosing the tech stack. Takeaways: - The vision for Zed is to create a lightweight, powerful,...

Science fiction authors Becky Chambers and Annalee Newitz discuss "cozy science fiction" -- stories of the future that feature goodness. From the Conversation at The Interval, “Resisting Dystopia” by Becky Chambers and Annalee Newitz. Watch the full talk here: https://youtu.be/88Dl4orviC0 Join us for a thought-provoking conversation between two Hugo award-winning science fiction authors,...

What is the difference between Mastodon's ActivityPub and BlueSky's AT Protocol? Here are more of my thoughts about why the Mastodon business model doesn't make sense for community run servers https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-04-24-mastodon-is-doomed/ ActivityPub website https://activitypub.rocks/ AT Protocol website https://atproto.com/ 0:00 - Decentralization protocols 0:40 - Wha...

With their ability to generate human-like language and complete a variety of tasks, generative AI has the potential to revolutionise the way we communicate, learn and work. But what other doors will this technology open for us, and how can we harness it to make great leaps in technology innovation? Have we finally done it? Have we cracked AI? Join Professor Michael Wooldridge for a fascinating dis...

with Cristina Cochior, Maria Dada, Miriyam Aouragh moderated by Femke Snelting

This a interview-mix recorded when J Dilla went to Giles Peterson Worldwide on BBC Radio 1 in 2001, Jay Dee talks about Welcome 2 Detroit, The Pharcyde, Slum Village, Common, The Ummah, Janet Jackson, Q-tip, D’Angelo, Soulquarians, ?uestlove, the future of Hip-Hop, Erykah Badu and his influences. This is a real inside to Dilla’s genius.

Join us from the Swedish Academy in Stockholm for the 2018 Nobel Lecture in Literature by Olga Tokarczuk.

Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? - Freakonomics

Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? - Freakonomics

In this immersive encounter, Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang and Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin embark on a multifaceted exploration of Taiwan's burgeoning tech sector. Vitalik shares his feelings about receiving the Taiwan Employment Gold Card, casting a spotlight on the dynamic ecosystem that has catalysed Taiwan's tech revolution. These tech visionaries then pivot their d...

For the first time ever, Kazuo Ishiguro and Michael Ondaatje appeared in an unchaired conversation about their creative processes and their inspirations growing up and how that shaped their fiction, as part of Man Booker 50 festival at Southbank Centre. Drawing on the wide range of influences that have informed their work, especially cinema and music, their discussion was divided into three sectio...

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