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David Hieatt, co-founder of The Do Lectures, spoke at their daughter’s Teen Do Conference in 2017. Love his message to this room of teenagers: Stop Caring What Other People Think.

At the intersection of programming, economics, cryptography, distributed systems, information theory, and math, you will find Vitalik Buterin, who has managed to synthesize insights across those fields into successful, real-world applications like Ethereum, which aims to decentralize the Internet. Tyler sat down with Vitalik to discuss the many things he's thinking about and working on, including the nascent field of cryptoeconomics, the best analogy for understanding the blockchain, his desire for more social science fiction, why belief in progress is our most useful delusion, best places to visit in time and space, how he picks up languages, why centralization's not all bad, the best ways to value crypto assets, whether P = NP, and much more.

Philips Hue Lily finally takes HomeKit and Alexa outdoors. Now you can control these multi-color LED spotlights from the Home app and through Siri or Alexa. Schedule automations to trigger based on time of day, people, motion sensors, and more.

CINEMATOGRAPHER WILLIAM WAGES cites Ability to Change Focal Lengths without Switching Lenses, Optical Quality and Size Discussed as Top Advantages for Filmmakers Photo courtesy of Fuji Film North America Corporation For  William W ages, ASC ,  filmmaking  is first and foremost about storytelling .  His role, as a premier cinematographer, is to capture the best  performances  with  the least intrusion.  “It’s less about the technology, and more about the story,” he  relates  in the latest video  by  Fujifilm , “ Conversation with William Wages, ASC .” Cinematographer William Wages, ASC Talks Lens Choices from FUJINON Lenses on Vimeo . The winner of three ASC Awards, including  ASC Career in Television honors in 2012 , and two Emmy  nominations , Wages  is   known for   his  sumptuous  landscape and intimate   photography   in features such as Maya Angelou’s “Down in the Delta ,”  Roland  Joffe ’s   “The Forgiven , ”  and Steven Spielberg’s  TV  mini-series “Into

3M knew your non-stick pan was poisoning you in the '70s The Intercept has obtained evidence that chemical conglomerate 3M knew about the health dangers of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) since the 1970s. These components were in thousands of everyday products, from water-repelling clothes to Teflon-coated non-stick pans, and they accumulate in your blood causing cancer, damaging your immune system, injuring your liver, spleen, bone marrow, and increasing cholesterol and triglycerides levels putting you at risk of heart attacks.

Barry Cousins of Info-Tech Research Group Looks At Fact Checking and AI By Barry Cousins As an analyst, I’d like to have a universal fact checker. Something like the carbon monoxide detectors on each level of my home. Something that would sound an alarm when there’s danger of intellectual asphyxiation from choking on the baloney put forward by certain sales people, news organizations, governments, and educators, for example. For most of my life, we would simply have turned to academic literature for credible truth.  There is now enough legitimate doubt to make us seek out a new model or at a minimum, augment that academic model. I don’t want to be misunderstood: I’m not suggesting that all news and education is phony baloney. And I’m not suggesting that the people speaking untruths are always doing so intentionally. The fact is, we don’t have anything close to a recognizable database of facts from which we can base such analysis. For most of us, this was supp