King’s re-framed An unusual view of one of Cambridge’s iconic buildings. Quote of the Day ”We live in a world where there is more and more information and less and less meaning.” Jean Baudrillard This insight, that reality has been replaced by representation, was what inspired the movie The Matrix. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Franz Schubert | An die Musik, D. 547 (Live at Metropolitan Opera, New York, 2023) | Lise Davidsen Link Short and exquisite. Long Read of the Day On Teaching Machines to Predict Death Interesting essay by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad which examines how AI mortality-prediction models can perpetuate healthcare inequities and create harmful self-fulfilling prophecies. The French poet Jean de La Fontaine has a famous quote that “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” We find echoes of this phenomenon in global literature, whether it’s Oedipus in the Greek Myths, Rostum and Sohrab from Iran, or the story of Kamsa and Krishna…
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