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zmeden··on OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'
DuPont advertises
zmeden··on Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars
That would be nice but very expensive and not so robust as moulded parts without any display/electronic on the surface. I wonder if there is a cheaper way of customizing the button icons than with OLED displays.
zmeden··on Ask HN: Why is vertical video so popular?
I'd say it has more to do with human vision which cover a wider horizontal angle than vertical.

The medium (film) maybe adapted to how we see. Nowadays it might be adapting to how we hold the thing we see through.

zmeden··on Ask HN: What human-curated music streaming service do you recommend?
I would recommend New Music Friday podcast from All Songs Considered (NPR). It's great for discovering new album releases.
zmeden··on Alan Turing’s “Can Computers Think?” Radio Broadcasts Re-Recorded
Turing states a very similar thing in his "Computing Machinery and Intelligence paper" and goes on to form a more interesting question (the Turing test):

"If the meaning of the words "machine" and "think" are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question, "Can machines think?" is to be sought in a statistical survey such as a Gallup poll. But this is absurd. Instead of attempting such a definition I shall replace the question by another"

zmeden··on Human Connectome Project Updates
If you give a color badge to each person in the world and you have 365 colors to choose from, how accurately would a specific color identify a person?
zmeden··on LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Gives $14M in Stock to Employees
If the CEO is not sure where to donate to 'provide enough for those who have little', then giving to those that 'have much' and having them make the decisions might actually be a good choice.

I never felt too positive about piling up of money for years/decades to donate it later instead of distributing it among the people in the organization now.

Sure, if you believe in an impactful plan that needs lots of money. But even then I could see arguments against it.

zmeden··on Ask HN: What was your biggest life lesson in 2015?
Can you tell more about this.
zmeden··on Ask HN: What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?
I'd consider most of the things you listed to be inventions/innovations. Discovery, for me, is closely connected to uncovering of a new phenomena or an effect. And invention/innovation would be the use of it for some specific purpose.
zmeden··on Context Free Art
For me, a good way to think about it is to first inquire what is art, what is work of art, and what is the art product. The book "Art as Experience" helped me immensely.

I see art as experience that stands out from a daily experience because of its intensity and refinement. And work of art as the process of creation of the art product.

Usually, context around the art product is an important part of experience. So if we remove the object out of its context (city, creation, people, usage of it if it is a building for example..) and transport it globally to some museum the art is diminished. Sure we can write stuff next to the art product but it is not the same. What you can directly experience is just an observation of the craftsmanship, other things you have to imagine.

So if you were around the folks who are creating algorithms for computer generated art you would experience the end product much more intensely since you would directly experience the process of refinement, context, motivations and so on.

zmeden··on Ask HN: How Should I Market This Thing?
Maybe market it to journalists/writers. Either to novice ones (students) so they get more aware about what good article title might be. Or to the experienced ones so they become more aware how everyone else is making up titles. Analytics from other users could also be interesting for journalists.
zmeden··on Why Infinite-Scrolling in Mobile Apps is Destroying Content Consumption
Why adapt our apps and tools to fit our old mental functioning where information was scarce, instead of evolving to the reality where there is an excess of available information?