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☆ Meet Michal Kosinski, the Oppenheimer of AI's Scariest Future
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

Eugenicists used photographs and IQ tests to determine which people were "inferior," and sterilized those who didn't measure up — which usually turned out to be anyone who wasn't white and rich. Before he worked with photographs, Kosinski was interested in Facebook. It's just picking up on the way gay people present themselves on dating sites — which, not surprisingly, is often very different from the way straight people present themselves to potential partners. Kosinski thinks AI's ability to make the kind of personality judgments he studies will only get better. That is the future Kosinski fears — even as he continues to tinker with the very models that prove it will come to pass.

Persons: Michal Kosinski, Kosinski, I'm, they'd, isn't, Oppenheimer, David Stillwell, Stillwell, aren't, Brian Stauffer, Aleksandr Kogan, Donald Trump, —, Kosinski isn't, MAGA, Bernie bros, Alexander Todorov, It's, they've, — Francis Galton, Ronald Fisher, Karl Pearson —, Aubrey Clayton, Hitler, Trump, They're, Adam Rogers Organizations: Stanford University, Kosinski, Facebook, Cambridge, Cambridge Psychometrics, National Academy of Sciences, Psychometrics, BI, intuit, Guardian, Rights, GLAAD, Stanford, HRC, University of Chicago, US Supreme, tinker, Business Locations: California, Stanford, Kosinski, Russia

☆ Mexican Olympians avoid auctioning medals as airline steps in to fly them to world championships
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Reuters —Mexico’s largest airline has offered to fly Olympic divers Alejandra Orozco and Gabriela Agúndez to this year’s world championships for free after government funding cuts forced them to try to find ways to pay their own passage. Elite Mexican aquatic athletes have been driven to selling towels and bathing suits among other fundraising initiatives since government funding was cut in a row over the governance of the Mexican Swimming Federation (FMN). Moments later, however, they received an on-air call from an Aeromexico executive, who said the airline would ferry the entire diving team to the Aquatics World Championships in Japan in July. The Aeromexico offer is not the first case of private initiative coming to the aid of Mexico’s aquatic athletes. Billionaire businessman Carlos Slim, through his philanthropic foundation, funded the Artistic Swimming team’s trip to the World Championships in Egypt, where they won three golds and a bronze earlier this week.

☆ No medal sale as airline steps in to fly Mexican Olympians to worlds
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Elite Mexican aquatic athletes have been driven to selling towels and bathing suits among other fund-raising initiatives since government funding was cut in a row over the governance of the Mexican Swimming Federation (FMN). Moments later, however, they received an on-air call from an Aeromexico executive, who said the airline would ferry the entire diving team to the Aquatics World Championships in Japan in July. The Aeromexico offer is not the first case of private initiative coming to the aid of Mexico's aquatic athletes. Billionaire businessman Carlos Slim, through his philanthropic foundation, funded the Artistic Swimming team's trip to the World Championships in Egypt, where they won three golds and a bronze earlier this week. Reporting by Janina Nuno Rios in Mexico City; Editing by Peter RutherfordOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Mexican government takes pride in artistic team after cutting funding
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Mexico increased their World Cup medal tally to four on Monday at the competition in Egypt, having travelled there thanks to the support of businessman Carlos Slim. With three golds and a bronze, the North American country finished second in the medal table behind Spain. Their first medal success came in the Mixed Team Technical event on Saturday, when a statement from the government praising the swimmers raised eyebrows after the National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport (CONADE) cut support from the team. "The Mexican artistic swimming team's historic participation in the World Cup in Egypt was a golden one. loadingCONADE head Ana Guevara announced the cut in funding in January after global governing body World Aquatics did not recognise the president of the Mexican Swimming Federation, Kiril Todorov, who is facing a trial for embezzlement.

☆ Unknown Pollock painting found in Bulgaria police raid
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

March 22 (Reuters) - A previously unknown painting by famed U.S. artist Jackson Pollock has been discovered in Bulgaria by police investigating international art smugglers, officials said. The work could be worth up to 50 million euros ($54 million), Bulgarian National Radio reported, citing experts. Several people, including Bulgarian citizens, were arrested in the international operation, state news agency BTA reported on Tuesday. The report did not give a description of the painting or any other details on the work. "This is an international operation with the participation of Europol, Greece and other countries," Petar Todorov, Bulgaria's Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said, according to the Novinite news agency.

☆ Pandemie de dezinformare. Puțin peste un procent din locuitori s-au imunizat la sate
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-25 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +3 min

Statistica Agenției Naționale pentru Sănătate Publică arată că puțin peste un procent din locuitori s-au imunizat la sate. Responsabilii din sănătate spun că de vină sunt ştirile false distribuite prin media şi dezinformarea. În satul Chirsova din Autonomia Găgăuză, oamenii preiau ideile transmise în emisiunile de la posturile de televiziune pe care le urmăresc. Majoritatea celor aproape 7 mii de locuitori din Chirsova sunt convinşi că vaccinul ar avea efecte mai grave decât virusul. În satul Chirsova s-au imunizat doar 94 de oameni, adică 1,36% din populaţia totală.

Persons: Elena Dudoglo, Svetlana Todorov, Ninel Revenco Organizations: Naționale Locations: Chirsova, Găgăuzia, Sărata Galbenă, epidemiologul

☆ Mai mulți copii, mai multe bucurii. Află povestea eroilor campaniei "11 pentru Moldova", familia Todorov care crește 11 copii
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-08 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +3 min

Este vorba despre familia Todorov, din oraşul Cahul, care creşte 11 copii. Pe ea o cheamă Sara, are un an şi jumătate. "Alexandru Todorov spune că şi-a dorit, din totdeauna, o familie mare, unită şi frumoasă. "Să educi 11 copii nu este deloc uşor, povestesc soții. "Ina Todorov spune că nu şi-ar închipui viaţa fără cele 11 minuni pe care le creşte, alături de soţul ei.

Persons: Todorov, Mă, Avram, Aron, Violeta, Mihail, Sara, Rebeca, Eva, Alexandru Todorov, Îi, Gavriil, Ina Todorov, Ina Organizations: Publika Locations: Cahul, Moldova

☆ SPRE-UN ALT CANON Metamorfozele lui Mircea Cărtărescu
▼ + stars: | 2020-05-25 | by ( Doinel Tronaru | ) adevarul.ro time to read: +20 min

Transformare, schimbare a înfăţişării sau, fig., a caracterului, a felului de a fi al unei persoane; p. gener. A fost republicată în volum în luna decembrie a aceluiaşi an la editura Kurt Wolff. Nota bene: Tema poate fi echivalată, până la urmă, cu cea a „schimbării subiectului“ (cf. Cu alte cuvinte, un nesfârşit text despre text, un meta-text (aici, „meta-“ are un alt sens dintre cele originale greceşti, cel de „despre“). Termenii de care se folosesc autorii şi, urmându-le exemplul, şi criticii, nu posedă sensuri atât de precise încât să putem vorbi în acest domeniu despre o terminologie tradiţională fermă.

Persons: Panait Istrati, Vers, ., Mircea Cărtărescu, Kafka, Cărtărescu, Gregor Samsa, Franz Kafka, Ovidiu, Hr, Virgiliu, Homer ., Publius Ovidius Naso, Homer, Hesiod, Titus Livius, Vergilius, Cezar, Lucius Apuleius, Lucius, Amor, Psyche, Kurt Wolff ., Breton, Stanley Corngold, Harold Bloom, Eminescu, Dionis, Nietzsche, Konrad Lorenz, Jean Paul, Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Lorenz, îşi, Horia, Roman Patapievici, Martin Eden, Jack London, Giovanni Papini, Titu Maiorescu, Ferdinand de Saussure, George Călinescu, rusă Nikolai Berdiaev, Andrei Tarkovski, Apocalipsă, Elena Dulgheru, Tarkovski, !, Wayne C . Booth, Jakobson, Todorov, Flaubert, Gil Blas, Gérard Genette, Booth, Iser Organizations: Chelsea House Publishers Locations: Tomis, Constanţa, Metamorfoze, tinereţe, Jena, structuralişti, francez, rusă, Bucureşti, Petrovski

☆ 17.06.2000 - „Un umor mai puțin explicit: semn al unui anume progres de mentalitate”
▼ + stars: | 2000-06-17 | by ( Radu Călin Cristea | ) moldova.europalibera.org time to read: +8 min

Invitat: Sorin Alexandrescu. Nu în ultimul rînd, Sorin Alexandrescu s-a lansat, cel puţin, prin ultimele 2 cărţi publicate în Romania, „Paradoxul Român” şi „Privind înapoi modernitatea”, într-un tip foarte delicat de investigaţie retrospectivă. Dar despre ce nu se vorbeste de loc este despre alte forme de intoleranta, chiar între români între ei. Cred ca aici este un anume progres de mentalitate. Sorin Alexandrescu: Mai întîi, pendularea între două oraşe are foarte multe aspecte plăcute dar şi foarte multe aspecte de dezorientare permanentă despre care nici eu nu vorbesc şi nici ceilalţi care se află în situaţii asemănătoare.

Persons: Radu Calin Cristea ., Sorin Alexandrescu, ., Alexandrescu, Tzvetan Todorov, Todorov, dezrădăcinare Organizations: Europa Liberă Locations: România, Amsterdam, Bucuresti, Romania, Bucureşti, Seuil, Occident, Todorov

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