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It was interesting to see this short article 1 about the enclosure of the web commons go by after just having listened to The Dig’s epic two part interview with Peter Linebaugh 2. What’s needed is a multi-stakeholder settlement in which large-scale users of the commons take on long-term, structured obligations to sustain it: contractual funding through paid APIs and usage-based levies, formal recognition of DPGs as Digital Public Infrastructure to unlock multilateral co-financing, and a s...

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Learning How to Learn: Abduction as the ‘Missing Link’ in Machine Learning In this paper, the question of machine learning is revisited in order to explore whether Bayesian learning, as a form of abductive reasoning, can provide an alternative to the current dichotomy between inductive and deductive approaches in machine learning debates. The paper will further demonstrate that machine learning invariably entails a deg...