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@fgraver@hcommons.social
2026-03-05 05:45:34

From myth to machine: The technological evolution of storytelling bigthink.com/books/the-technol

From myth to machine: The technological evolution of storytelling
Historically, the ability to tell believable stories has become more widely available. Kevin Ashton says that’s a blessing and a curse.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-05 13:16:43

Is it bad Cowboys CB evaluation, bad development or bad luck at issue? cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story

Is it bad Cowboys CB evaluation, bad development or bad luck at issue?
The Cowboys seem to have invested in all the wrong CBs over the years. Is this a product of poor evaluation or just plain old bad luck?

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-03-04 17:56:32

Monoclonal antibody therapies are being developed to treat #measles in response to its recent resurgence.
David A Kennedy argues that such therapies risk driving measles virus evolution in ways that might undermine the protection offered by #vaccination.

Developing monoclonal antibody therapies for measles could lead to adverse pathogen evolution
Monoclonal antibody therapies are being developed to treat measles in response to its recent resurgence. This Perspective argues that such therapies risk driving measles virus evolution in ways that might undermine the protection offered by vaccination.

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-04 13:06:38

Gambling Is Thousands of Years Older Than We Thought, Rewriting Human Evolution 404media.co/gambling-is-thousa

Gambling Is Thousands of Years Older Than We Thought, Rewriting Human Evolution
Native Americans were playing dice and other games of chance many millennia before any known cultures elsewhere.

@sperbsen@discuss.systems
2026-03-04 09:38:34

I had gotten excited about the idea of Evolutionary Architecture, but until this week never had the chance to read the book. Now I'm a bit disappointed.
I had hoped that a "fitness function" would be a measure of the quality of the architecture, and I had thus expected that the way to practice EA would be to make sure that measure goes up (or at least not down). (I had also hoped for some CI support for this in the sense of tracking the resulting numbers and their evoluti…

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-03-03 15:19:57

#darwin #evolution

How can people believe in evolution when they’ve never seen Darwin appear in a piece of burnt toast?
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-04 10:06:45

Mike Macdonald's defensive evolution: The tweaks that sparked a Seahawks Super Bowl run nytimes.com/athletic/6993187/2

Mike Macdonald’s defensive evolution: The tweaks that sparked a Seahawks Super Bowl run
Macdonald's adjustments this season took an already elite scheme to a new level and leaned into its to star personnel.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-05 13:45:50

Lio, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise procurement, including document reading and supplier evaluation, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/lio-

Lio raises $30M from Andreessen Horowitz and others to automate enterprise procurement | TechCrunch
AI procurement startup Lio announced a $30 million Series A in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-04-04 10:32:41

SO!
I can fix my code so that the arguments to FEXPRs are not evaluated, by deferring the call to EVLIS into APPLY; but this is not what the code given on pages 70-71 does, and so my code will then not directly follow the specification in the #Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual;
OR,
I can not do this, in which case FEXPRs will not work as specified on pages 18 and 19.
(Note that…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-05 11:16:54

The UK says Microsoft, the UK government, academics, and experts plan to build a system to spot deepfakes online as part of an detection evaluation framework (Muvija M/Reuters)
reuters.com/world/uk/britain-w