Phrenology: The discredited, useless, racist pseudo-science, now in your dating app!

Because what could possibly go wrong.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7027429

‘Groundbreaking’ bionic arm that fuses with user’s skeleton and nerves could advance amputee care::The bionic arm has been working for years, reducing the user’s level of pain. The first person to receive it tells how life changing it has been.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/8kHHX

Given how Amazon treats its warehouse workers, clearly this is what will set off the robot uprising that kills us all.

Who knew they even had that many...

I don't mind the idea of charging for a quality service the least bit. But that requires offering a quality service first.

A very long but fascinating overview of different attempts at autonomous, self-driving, and/or demand responsive app integrated public transport options.

(ok, so you're probably a bit weird - like me - if you're fascinated by this)

Yes, they are doing a promotion, but I don't care.

Archive link: http://archive.today/71fqd

"The areas of the MD network that were activated by reading code weren't the parts called on for maths, leaving an open question as to whether programming should be taught as a maths-based skill or a language-based skill."

They tested with Python, so this doesn't really surprise me. I suspect strongly my own experience that testing with Python both under-estimates the language involvement vs. more linguistically expressive languages but also significantly under-estimates the maths involvement relative to more formal languages, especially function and array languages. There's a marked separation between developers who see maths as essential to programming vs. those who see it as a language thing.

That they recruited from MIT, Tufts and immediate surroundings may well also affect their results.

Would be interesting to see a broader study.

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. I'd never imagine that nice Mr. Musk would do that... Oh? He's been a total ass to workers at his other companies too you say? No, say it isn't so...