The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

My brother was on campus at University of Pittsburgh, he sent me a picture of a sidewalk robot that was delivering books. It doesn’t sound like it, no. I would say even in the past year we’ve seen a lot more solutions get deployed to consumers. They’re maybe level two autonomy, but they’re much more widespread. Sidewalk robots.

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Forum One

JUNE 26, 2024

Psycholinguistics is a technical-sounding word but not a new practice. It combines methods and theories of psychology and linguistics to derive a fuller understanding of how the brain processes language. What is psycholinguistics?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

If you start a positive habit and see that it has a positive effect upon your business or health outcomes, your brain is more willing to utilize resources to continue that behavior and scan for new ones,” said Shawn Achor , author of The Happiness Advantage. An upward spiral certainly sounds better than a downward spiral, right?

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The Next Web

JULY 24, 2013

Xan Blacker, co-founder of Ticckle, explained to The Next Web that Ticckle’s main aim was to “tickle your brain” through discussion of ideas – he actually doesn’t really like the word debate, he explained. When you do that, talking about politics or all these kind of things isn’t just for academics and intellectuals, it’s more universal.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Sounds like a useful feature, no? Image Credits: Tel Aviv University Image generating models have this weird thing where if you tell them to draw “a white cat and a black dog,” it often mixes the two up, ignores one, or makes a catdog or animals that are both black and white. Perhaps for shoppers and sellers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Sound like an odd match? Founder and CEO Corey Jaskolski’s experience includes work with both National Geographic (where he was recently named Explorer of the Year ) and a 3D media startup. In fact, he told me that his time with National Geographic made him aware of the need for more data sets in conservation.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Designed to have a short conversation with visitors about herself, she runs on a proprietary “digital brain” and studies my expressions via webcam. Digital people running on Soul Machines’ dystopian-sounding Humans OS 2.0 Sam isn’t a real person — she’s a digital human created by Auckland-based tech company Soul Machines.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Posted by Tom Denton, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Worldwide bird populations are declining at an alarming rate, with approximately 48% of existing bird species known or suspected to be experiencing population declines. For instance, the U.S. and Canada have reported 29% fewer birds since 1970.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Like many other remote and/or hybrid workspaces, Candid offers online resources to support remote employees’ career progression, including interns, such as organizational professional development courses, known as Candid University, and access to Candid’s subscription and memberships to industry news and resources.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The Old English word made the shortlist for Oxford University Presss’ 2024 Word of the Year (though it ultimately lost to brain rot ). nathaniellmack original sound – For some reason, the Account Planning Group of Canada offers a handy breakdown of the concept on TikTok.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Six years later, a new team claims to have cracked the code to a universal AI assistant — or at least to have gotten a little bit closer. Adept’s ostensible differentiator is a brain trust of AI researchers hailing from DeepMind, Google and OpenAI. The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2012

Jocelyn has a bachelor's degree in literature from New York University and a master’s degree in sociology from University of Washington. It sounds “old-school” but I love to go to my local library every Saturday to wander up and down the stacks. You can follow Jocelyn on Twitter at @jocelynharmon. “I

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Let me know if any of these sound familiar. So how familiar do these ones sound? So these are all limiting beliefs, even though they may not sound like it. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Let me know if any of these sound familiar. So how familiar do these ones sound? So these are all limiting beliefs, even though they may not sound like it. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Image Credits: Bookly Other notable features include the ability to play ambient sounds while reading and a notes section to write down thoughts or record important quotes. The plan allows readers to add an unlimited number of books and provides access to more ambient sound options, among other features.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

The Fletcher School & Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University. National University. Leads the innovative efforts at National University for military, veteran, and military family educational degree programs . Academic Institutions. Alnoor Ebrahim. Professor of Management. Kimberly Mitchell. Bernard Mauricia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

These triggers spark your brain’s attention response by appealing to basic aspects of what makes us human. The triggers are: Automaticity: Uses specific sensory cues like colors, symbols, or sounds to get attention. Framing: Adapt or changes someone’s view of the world so they pay attention to you.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

It is 2025 according to a new report by the nonprofit Pew Research Center and Elon University in North Carolina. The Pew/Elon University prediction is non-partisan, however, and is based on the views of 2,558 experts and technology builders about where we will stand by the year 2025. The Big Picture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2015

The glaring light off the tiny screen zaps your brain of sound ZZZs. ” We’ve been researching and interviewing nonprofit leaders about self-care. Why? At night, when I set the alarm, and the next thing I know I am checking Facebook or work email. I don’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. It's an open moral universe on some level. Couldn't do it in a sound bite, game, or blog post. The key note was delivered by Steven Johnson, author of "Everything Bad for You is Good." What about Grand Theft Auto?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

I get to use my brain to think and figure things out. Student-led grant committee program with University of Central Florida. I shared that I have the opportunity to figure out ways to help people understand the work that we do and why it’s important. That seems like a silly thing to say, but I get to take creative license often.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2020

If the above sounds familiar, you can read more about Emma’s remedies for these myths in her recent post or watch the full session on-demand. Myth #3 : You can’t raise major gifts without face-to-face meetings. Myth #4 : Video meetings will look “unprofessional” to major donors. Myth #5 : You’re too small to raise major gifts.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I dont worry too much about how planet sized brains will shape galaxies in 100 years. Handing over the reins of AI development to AI agents sounds dangerous. For instance, some (though not most) dictators are almost universally hated and retain power for many years even though nearly everyone would prefer to replace them.

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Futurism

APRIL 13, 2025

Still, the adverse reactions that do occur sound pretty scary. Along with immediate and short-lived side effects like pain or itching at the injection site, nausea, and dizziness, more recent studies have demonstrated that nanoparticles from gadolinium dye can build up in the bodies and brains of patients who are injected with it.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2008

We all have our pet movies, books, bars, beaches, and these predilections, while powerful, are so idiosyncratic that they aren't very useful unless you are a universally loved place. This is why teenagers listen to the same song over and over, to tattoo the anger or love or whatever emotion the sound provokes into their ears.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

AC: A lot of your product innovation has been around university students. A lot of your features were oriented around geographical location, but it kind of sounds like you are totally pivoting away from that, and location doesn’t matter at all. It sounds like you’re trying to apply that thinking to all of these other spaces as well?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Well, that 80%, 60% of that money goes to large institutional organizations like hospitals and universities, and large cultural institutions, like museums, zoos, and libraries, and religious organizations. And I know that sounds expensive. Well, if you take that 20% from the 100%, you’re left with 80%, right?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

legal & constitutional history at the University of Alabama and a graduate of New York City Public Schools. He is the author of None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age (University of Chicago Press) and a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US & CIPM).

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 27, 2025

There are limits to what you can learn just by talking to an AI modelafter all, humans (even neuroscientists) don't know all the details of how our own brains work. Claude, on occasion, will give a plausible-sounding argument designed to agree with the user rather than to follow logical steps. So we look inside.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Photo by BirgerKing. Take a guess.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

Over the next two months, Pedro Domingos, a professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and Michael Lissack, a Wall Street whistleblower turned admitted harasser , promoted the narrative that Gebru’s work was “advocacy disguised as science.” Domingos had been interested in similar issues at the University of Washington.

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Recode by Vox

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

It’s a great way to sanity check yourself about your own intuition, says David Markowitz , an associate professor of communication at Michigan State University. How do we say this without sounding like a jerk, but without making her feel bad? I don’t want it to sound silly. I don’t want it to sound silly.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

But while this sounds simple, it’s an invention that could end up defining the decade to come. After all, they argue, what is human speech if not an incredibly complex autocomplete program running on the black box of our brains? No, it’s merely an autocomplete program, like the one in the Google search bar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Take a guess.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. remember I talked about the brain?

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 17, 2025

We could speak instead of "practically infinite endeavors" endeavors for which for any amount of progress one could ever make on the endeavor in this universe, the importance-weighted-quantity of "stuff" which is not yet figured out will be greater than the importance-weighted-quantity of "stuff" which has been figured out.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. David Dunlop, who many of you will know as from Cornell University, spent his life there, took 13 years to get a $100 million-plus gift. Great book by.

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