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Indeed, there is. It’s called hypercriticism. When we hear negative statements, we think they’re inherently more intelligent than positive ones. Teresa Amabile, director of research for Harvard Business School, began exploring this back in the 1980s. She took a group of 55 students, roughly half men, half women, and showed them excerpts from two book reviews printed in an issue of The New York Times. The same reviewer wrote both, but Amabile anonymized them and tweaked the language to produce tw…
over 9 years ago
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The new field of animal-computer interaction is developing tech to help service dogs and other animals communicate more effectively with humans.
over 8 years ago
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But here’s the thing: txt.fyi has no social mechanics. None. No Like button, no Share button, no comments. No feed showing which posts are most popular. Each post has a tag telling search engines not to index it, so it won’t even show up on Google. The only way anyone will see it is if you send them the URL or post it somewhere. txt.fyi is a tool for putting stuff online—but without the usual features to help something become a pass-around hit.
I call it antiviral design. Most platforms work in…
over 6 years ago
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We’ve spent years teaching neural nets to think like human brains. They’re crazy-smart, but what if we’ve been doing it all wrong?
over 5 years ago
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Now you don’t need to know any programming to launch a company. We’ve been
approaching this moment for years.
almost 4 years ago
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Universities are digitally spying on students to make sure they don’t cheat on online tests. A whole generation could be learning to tolerate surveillance.
over 3 years ago
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He’s a programmer who, along with web designer Mark Otto, created Bootstrap, free software that the pros use to make their sites look spiffy. If you’ve ever noticed that a lot of websites have the same big chunky buttons, or the same clean forms, that’s likely because an estimated one-fifth of all websites on the planet use Bootstrap.
One reason for its spread is that Thornton and Otto made Bootstrap open source. Anyone can use it without permission, and anyone can tweak it and improve it. Thorn…
over 3 years ago
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OpenAI’s new tool sped up my work and wrote entire pieces of software from a simple prompt. But it might riddle the internet with even more bugs.
about 2 years ago
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The venerable (and yes, super dull) piece of officeware is getting reinvented as a tool for non-coders to automate and simplify their lives.
about 2 years ago
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My rooftop panels showed me that a world powered by renewables would be an overflowing horn of plenty, with fast, sporty cars and comfy homes.
over 1 year ago
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Installing protected routes tends to boost local shops. But many store owners remain attached to their street parking—and fight to protect it.
about 1 year ago
