A few weeks ago we had a heatwave and we were thinking if the hotter a place the poorer it is. We could collect data to test our hypothesis thanks to the recent advances in open data and scraping technologies.
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GDELT – the best source for news addicts
We love reading news but who’s got the time to read ALL articles? Luckily, the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone, GDELT for short, scrapes tons of news articles and other sources of information. And yes, you can access their data via an API or very convenient Python and R SDKs.
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Sentient machines, stochastic parrots, and the ghost in the shell
Can machines think?
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What is consciousness? These questions are too important to leave to AI researchers. Cognitive scientists, psychologists, philosophers, and neuroscientists have investigated these questions for ages and came up with frameworks to think about such questions. Here we focus on two things, the philosophical critique of AI (both symbolic and connectionist) and various approaches to consciousness (or intelligence, or minds). -
What does it mean? Does AI know the answer?
Recently a linguistic search engine overturned the federal mask mandate in the US, the recent issue of The Economist says “Huge āfoundation modelsā are turbo-charging AI progress” and Gary Marcus seems to be the only person who bets against the success of AI. But can we trust empiricism and big data? A large language model can decide the debate over the common or right usage of words?
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Visualizing spatial inequalities with h3, pydeck and Blender
Overpass API is an incredible data source. We used pydeck and Blender to visualize the frequency of various OSM features (aka categories) in Hungary.
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