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1. Disabled musicians create music from brainwaves
By Tim Muffett
Digest: Music
Curator: Katie Chase
Disabled musicians given an interface to write once again and hear their compositions. Amazing. Read More
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2. Google Computers Defeat Human Players at 2,500-Year-Old Board Game
By Jack Clark
Digest: Artificial Intelligence
Curators: Bjorn Larsen & Nitzan Hermon
Jack Clark at Bloomberg, whose reporting on AI is some of the clearest and most technically rigorous going, explains why a Google computer system beating a master-level player of the game of Go matters:
The systems used by Facebook and Google were not preprogrammed with specific if-this-then-do-that code or explicitly told the rules. Instead, they learned to play at a very high level by themselves. These techniques can be adapted to any problem “where you have a large amount of data that you have to find insights in,” Hassabis said. Read More
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3. 3D Printed TSA Master Keys Leaked from a photograph
By Bruce Schneier
Digest: 3D Printing
Curator: Dilanka Wettewa
If you weren’t aware of this screw up, you are in for a treat. Late last year, The Washington Post accidentally used a picture of the TSA Master Keys in one of their articles and guess what happened? Someone designed 3D Printable replicas of those master keys and released them on the internet. Read More
More from this reading list: http://eepurl.com/bRbSbz
4. How BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti Is Building A 100-Year Media Company
By Noah Robischon
Digest: Media Models
Curator: Holly Knowlman
To me, it feels like Buzzfeed had their game plan figured out long ago. It’s great to see them take the lid off about their philosophies on getting things in place. Read More
More from this reading list: http://eepurl.com/bRbDY9
5. 25 Epic, Must-Read Blog Posts About Fundraising
By Alex Iskold
Digest: Startup
Curators: Zubin Chagpar & Chris McCann
Alex has consolidated various epic funding blogs by experts on the topic. Worth bookmarking. Read More
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