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Computer vision
We have allowed ourselves to become slaves to computers, and thereby to numbers and precision. In most contexts, precise numbers are spurious or misleading. Our obsession with them often leads to blinkered thought processes. Over the last decade, Big Data has become big business. A vast amount of time and energy is channeled into a…
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Letting go
“Those who are given a benefit and then have it removed are likely to be less happy than those who never know of its existence” Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow Increasingly I come across people saying the human population is unsustainable. It’s hardly a new concern – Thomas Malthus, for instance, was worried about…