This week, Ted Cruz selected Carly Fiorina as Vice President of all the doggies.
I’ll be making all the decisions now, Thelma and Louise.
Hurry, Louise, let’s escape while we can.
Capture them and return them to me.
Turn you engines off and place your paws in plain view.
Let’s not get caught.
- Donald Trump’s campaign is the equivalent of Hitler using the N-word.
- David Petraeus seems oddly unchanged by his long fall from grace.
- Pitcher Eric Show, a baseball Bobby Fischer, lived strangely and died lonely.
- In 1950, Major League Baseball tested an “electronic umpire.”
- Machines needn’t be conscious to read emotion, Yuval Noah Harari reminds.
- Jessica Riskin writes of automata and the long prehistory of AI.
- Gary Marcus argues our current approach to AI may be leading us astray.
- A Georgia Tech professor who stealthily used an AI Teaching Assistant.
- Astro Teller talks Google X moonshots, which are good and bad for society.
- Google Glass was a Segway for your face, but Augmented Reality has its plusses.
- Andrew McAfee encourages us to embrace the robot revolution.
- Key to driverless cars will be their ability to “talk” to the cloud.
- Six decades ago, Edward O. Thorp brought the computer to the casino.
- Gerontologist Aubrey de Grey is still saying we may soon live to 1,000.
- A Nautilus essay looks at survival strategies for when the sun dies.
- It’s possible for a damaged brain to create fictional “memories” for us.
- Journalists working at Facebook are even unhappier than other journalists.
- K-Tel mastermind Philip Kives is eulogized by obituarist Margalit Fox.
- Eric Bogosian and Jerry Stahl think Thomas Mann a mixed blessing.
- Edwin Frank, founder of the great NYRB, discusses modern publishing.
- Old Print Article: The Ancient Toys Of Automata. (1887)
- Old Print Article: Astrologer Evangeline Adams Succumbs. (1932)
- A brief note from 1952 about computerized election coverage.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Benito Mussolini, Roger Goodell, etc.