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- Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good To Be Believed. They’re Paid For https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/629800775/some-amazon-reviews-are-too-good-to-be-believed-theyre-paid-for
- Reinforcement Learning
By experimenting, computers are figuring out how to do things that no programmer could teach them. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603501/10-breakthrough-technologies-2017-reinforcement-learning/ - An AI-driven robot hand spent a hundred years teaching itself to rotate a cube https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611724/artificial-intelligence-driven-robot-hand-spends-a-hundred-years-teaching-itself-to-rotate/
- Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong http://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/why-our-intuition-about-sea_level-rise-is-wrong-rp
- Sorry, Nerds: Terraforming Might Not Work On Mars https://www.wired.com/story/co2-terraforming-mars/
- Droughts, Heat Waves and Floods: How to Tell When Climate Change Is to Blame https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/droughts-heat-waves-and-floods-how-to-tell-when-climate-change-is-to-blame/
- Why Westerners Fear Robots And The Japanese Do Not https://www.wired.com/story/ideas-joi-ito-robot-overlords/
- Aumento do número de casas com sistema de refrigeração de ar tornará planeta mais quente https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/nytiw,aumento-do-numero-decasas-com-sistema-de-refrigeracao-de-ar-tornaraplaneta-mais-quente,70002418438