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https://www.publicbooks.org/ 22-01-2012 11:19:00
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New at PB, we share the inaugural episode of “Proust Curious,” a podcast where Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver read and unpack the whole of Proust’s “A la recherche du temps perdu.” You can listen to the first episode and read the transcript here: buff.ly/4d8tfJm
New at PB, Alexander Aviña reviews John Washington “The Case for Open Borders” (Haymarket Books), which makes clear both the morality and political possibility of abolishing borders as they actually exist. buff.ly/47xlH1D
Read this brilliant (and humbling) essay on borders (and on my latest book), The Case for Open Borders. Deep thanks to Alexander Aviña and Public Books for the deep dive.
New at PB, Kim Gallon considers the dangers of the promise to feed the next generation of AIs on “synthetic” data, despite claims that synthetic data will diversify training data and fix algorithmic bias. buff.ly/4e9scu4
Proud of this piece I wrote on synthetic data & AI. Thank you to Dr. Mona Sloane Dr. Mona Sloane for immediately seeing the value of my work. 👇🏾
Simply bring down the walls and open the gates. This is what John Washington calls for in “The Case for Open Borders.” Read Alexander Aviña’s review, new at PB: buff.ly/3TybpsF
Tech industry leaders often extol the benefits of synthetic data, suggesting it has the benefits of real-world data without issues of risk, privacy, and bias. But it’s not a magical elixir for fixing algorithmic discrimination, Kim Gallon argues. buff.ly/4ethCOp
In the first episode of “Proust Curious,” Emma Claussen and Hannah Weaver discuss “Swann’s Way” by Marcel Proust. We meet the narrator as a child in Combray who dreams of becoming a writer and about a love affair his neighbor Swann had before he was born. buff.ly/4goqeaT