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Rose's avatar

it's pique (stimulate interest or curiosity) not peak

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Claudia Dawson's avatar

Thanks for catching that! Updated.

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Andy's avatar

This was the best Recomendo ever!

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Mark Frauenfelder's avatar

Wow, thanks Andy!

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Andy's avatar

Another great quote (definition): “Recursion: the repeated application of a recursive procedure or definition.”

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Emily Mclintock's avatar

Love this week’s! Love all weeks!

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chiefmcconnell.eth's avatar

love the quote and the whoismadatme link.

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Hans De Keulenaer's avatar

Great selection again. Recomendo remains one of my few and favourite newsletters (for over 3 years now).

For this particular edition, I'd add 'summarizing books in 5 bullet points' to the list of '43 things that don't work' :-), but that's maybe just me.

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Josh's avatar

Sadly for all of us, that Irpan quote is true only when “worst” refers to AI capability — the typical technologist view. From a societal perspective we are at the very beginning of “bad” and the descent towards “worst” will likely be exponential.

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Glenn Mercer's avatar

For some reason my security software blocks bookpecker, and HARD! As in "DO NOT PROCEED!"

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