life in progress

Víkendové surfovanie

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria The stations—which didn’t so much scan as photograph books—had been custom-built by Google from the sheet metal up. Each one could digitize books at a rate of 1,000 pages per hour. The book would lie in a specially designed motorized cradle that would adjust to the spine, locking it in place. Above, there was…

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Víkendové surfovanie

our mothers as we never saw them The old photos of her are even more compelling than the stories because they’re a historical record, carrying the weight of fact, even if the truth there is slippery: the trick of an image, and so much left outside the frame. These photos serve as a visual accompaniment to the myths. Because any…

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Víkendové surfovanie a la Elon Musk

Pred nejakým časom som sa tu odkazovala na blog Tima Urbana Wait But Why a na to čo písal o umelej inteligencii. Zuzina mi nedávno odporučila jeho články o Elonovi Muskovi. Mala pravdu, že za dve hodiny v lietadle som ich prečítať nestihla, ale mala pravdu aj v tom, že naozaj stoja za to (a tieto sa dajú stiahnuť aj…

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