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The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesday — I am aware this is unhinged. We're doing it anyway.

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts — The FDA has received reports involving dozens of other AI-enhanced devices, including a heart monitor said to have overlooked abnormal heartbeats and an ultrasound device that allegedly misidentified fetal body parts.

A 'Goldilocks' Effect for Online Teens? Moderate Social Media Users Fare Better Than Abstainers or Heavy Users — The data revealed "a U-shaped association," where both social media abstinence and heavy social media use were linked to poorer well-being while moderate social media use was linked to better well-being.

End Game Play — The ability to model the terminal state of AI does not mean the terminal state of AI is close.

Stop Using Icons in Data Tables — In our quest for "clean" and "minimalist" UI, we have stripped away the clarity of text and replaced it with a field of cryptic glyphs.

AI Doesn't Reduce Work—It Intensifies It — Several participants noted that although they felt more productive, they did not feel less busy, and in some cases felt busier than before.

The shape of time — Gradually, the linear model of time gained ground, and thinkers literally began drawing time as a line.

John Cleese's Legendary 1991 Speech About Creativity — Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Where I'm at with AI — I've long held the belief that our job as software engineers is not to write code, but rather to solve problems.

How To Deconstruct Almost Anything — This is the story of one computer professional's explorations in the world of postmodern literary criticism.

We mourn our craft — as a senior, you could abstain. But then your junior colleagues will eventually code circles around you, because they're wearing bazooka-powered jetpacks and you're still riding around on a fixie bike.

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' — The problem with anthropomorphic descriptions is that they risk masking important limitations of probabilistic automation systems, which make them fundamentally different from human cognition.

Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty — How do we establish what we believe? And how can we be certain that what we believe is true? And how do we convince other people that it is true?