Beyond pattern recognition, intelligence is about building models of the world. But what's a "model"? I think the best analogy is a *map*: an artifact that you can observe and manipulate, that emulates important properties of the original object. Cognition is like cartography.

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Google has a new search engine out, for searching for Datasets. toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch

Bad day for Trend Micro. Most of their Mac OS X apps have been kicked out by Apple after it was discovered they were collecting and sending out private information.

Mojave's 'dark mode' is gorgeous 🙌 ...but its promises about improved privacy protections? kinda #FakeNews 😥 0day bypass: vimeo.com/291491984 btw if anybody has a link to 🍎's macOS bug bounty program I'd 💕 to report this & other 0days -donating any payouts to charity 🙏

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