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But it's impossible to punch a corporation, and it may not even be possible to identify the source of unfair bias when you're dealing with a machine learning system. Lufthansa, under investigation for fare increases on inner-German air routes after...
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Another Stasi-relevant exhibition is here: http://www.bstu.bund.de/SharedDocs/Ausstellungen/Region-Berlin/berlin_stasi.html;jsessionid=232ACB292A60DD8CA914A7F39D0D3BCE.2_cid344?nn=3160732 Open daily 10-18 h, audioguides supposedly available in English. It's next to Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin-Mitte. You might also be interested in the "Alliiertenmuseum", which has a large part on the Berlin airlift of...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)