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Tanuj
I often use the analogy of “AI for social good” being like creating a tank first and THEN being like oh let’s see how we can use this tank for “social good.”
Then why not create something other than a tank in the first place?
Scientists follow the state’s endless in warfare.
@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)twitter.comThe idea of using page numbers, like in paper books, didn’t appear right away. At first, it seemed to us that it was some kind of a relic of the past. But having spent few months working on the content of the book, we realized that it was just inconvenient for us to refer to typos or specific illustrations. People haven’t invented anything more... See more
Bureau Gorbunov • Future of the book. Manifesto of Bureau Gorbunov Publishing
So the total amount of land area required to meet the world's protein needs using plants is about half a percent. This year's soybean crop, going on 0.08% of earth’s land area has more than 50% excess protein over all the meat consumed — there's more protein in this year's soybean crop than all the meat consumed global and it's grown on 0.08% of... See more
The Verge • Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown on a new kind of meat
Especially on the web, we are used to a a kind of a document metaphor that, the web is just built for, which is a kind of a vertically scrolling infinite page. Infinite canvases are essentially like a different document format. This idea of that there are two dimensions, or almost three. You know, you can move left, you can move right, you can move... See more
Muse • Infinite canvases with Steve Ruiz // Metamuse podcast episode 59
Knowing the name of this idea gives you a scaffolding to hang your mind on. The name triggers the example in your mind.
Neil Kakkar • Vocabulary as a Meta Mental Model
[...] meat, to a meat consumer, is defined by the sensory pleasures, the nutritional value, the cooking behavior, the familiarity, the affordability. And the way it's made is something that they try to think about as little as possible. So what that means is that for us to call our product meat, is actually just reflecting consumer perceptions — if... See more
The Verge • Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown on a new kind of meat
Book is a format of different level that is good for presenting a whole system of knowledge.
Bureau Gorbunov • Future of the book. Manifesto of Bureau Gorbunov Publishing
No matter how good the original design of the book is, Epub will make it look ugly.
Bureau Gorbunov • Future of the book. Manifesto of Bureau Gorbunov Publishing
In the course of learning about the flavor, chemistry and textures of meat and so forth, we know quite a lot about the difference between pork and beef. And we know other meats from animals, so to speak, where you set the knobs with respect to the flavor chemistry. And we can navigate that whole space. We can create things that would be... See more