Top stories published by OneZero in August of 2021

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Clive Thompson in OneZero

Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing

They force you to look at the world the way an AI…

Clive Thompson in OneZero

How Data Science Pinpointed the Creepiest Word in “Macbeth”

It’s not the word you’d expect — and it…

Alberto Romero in OneZero

How OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1 Billion

The company behind GPT-3 and Codex isn’t as open as it claims.

Cory Doctorow in OneZero

An industrial meat-grinder; on its intake belt is a procession of recycling bins heaped high with garbage; its output cone has been replaced with the glowing eye of HAL 9000, and it empties into a giant wheeled hopper full of ground-up trash. Image: Seydelmann (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GW300_1.jpg CC BY-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY: https://creativecommons.org

Machine Learning’s Crumbling Foundations

Doing ‘data science’ with bad data.

Clive Thompson in OneZero

How Teenagers Are Rediscovering An Old Game About Authoritarianism

‘Papers, Please’ came out in 2013…

Colin Horgan in OneZero

How the Wrongest Column About the Internet Was Actually Right

Clifford Stoll’s 1995 Newsweek column is…

Lance Ulanoff in OneZero

Robot Parkour is Unbelievably Real

Boston Dynamics Atlas is blowing people's minds — again

Michele DeMarco, PhD in OneZero

Mother holding a baby and taking a photo of them both.

“Sharenting” Is a Threat to Children’s Health and Personal Development

Parents who endlessly post on…

Zulie Rane in OneZero

This Simple Math Problem Keeps Going Viral

Does anyone on the internet remember PEMDAS? I am forced to conclude not.

Strict teacher in red holding a stack of books and a pointer, points at a chalkboard covered in math problems

Douglas Rushkoff in OneZero

Can’t We Use Crypto for Something Other Than Capitalism?

How to make the next generation of bankers…

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Michele DeMarco, PhD

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