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• How Those Algorithms Manipulate Your Behavior

  22-04-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein popularized the term “nudge” in 2008, but due to recent advances in AI and machine learning, algorithmic nudging is much more powerful than its non-algorithmic counterpart. With so much data about workers’ behavioral patterns at their fingertips, companies can now develop personalized strategies for changing individuals’ decisions and behaviors at large scale. These algorithms c
  
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• The Contentious History Of Grammar Books

  22-04-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  In that era, a Grammar was second only to a Bible as a necessary object in a God-fearing household. While the Bible provided moral instruction, the Grammar, as a guide to correct linguistic behavior, might shore up confidence and help one get ahead in the world. A pageant of pedants, both male and female, squabbled for their share of the market. – The New Yorker
  
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• Microsoft: Back-To-Back Video Meetings Are “Unsustainable”

  22-04-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our research shows breaks are important, not just to make us less exhausted by the end of the day, but to actually improve our ability to focus and engage while in those meetings,” says Michael Bohan, senior director of Microsoft’s Human Factors Engineering group, who oversaw the project. – Microsoft Research
  
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• Jerry And Kenny’s Excellent NFT Adventure

  22-04-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jerry Saltz and Kenny Schachter team up to “test” the NFT market. “To be clear, NFTism doesn’t necessarily disrupt anything but rather presents a market alternative to the traditional gallery system. In the process, it ushered in a unexpected audience of crypto collectors, empowered a whole new generation of artists with easy access to that audience, and instilled the (potential) windfall of a 10 percent resale residual to NFT artists in perpetuity. On another note, make
  
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• Was Nero cruel? British Museum offers hidden depths to Roman emperor

  22-04-2021 16:24
  
  Nero: the man behind the myth brings together more than 200 artefacts from across EuropeNero, one of the most notorious Roman emperors of them all, murdered his mother and two wives, ruthlessly persecuted early Christians, including Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and even set fire to Rome itself – famously fiddling amid the flames – to make room to build himself a vast, luxurious palace.Or did he? That is the question posed by an exhibition opening at the British Museum next month which
  
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• Skull brides and iguana hats: Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico – in pictures

  22-04-2021 08:00
  
  The renowned Mexican photographer has spent a lifetime documenting indigenous communities and chance encounters in her homeland Continue reading...
  
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