“What if movies were taller and thinner?” Adam Epstein asked in Quartz. “That’s the question posed by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov, who is developing ‘the first vertical format blockbuster,’ according to Deadline. Based on the true story of a Soviet fighter pilot who led an escape out of a Nazi concentration camp in World War […]
In a new article by Dave Davies and heard on NPR’s Fresh Air program, artificial intelligence (A.I.) has come to a point where it is displacing workers rather than making lives better, and in many cases, actually turning against people, causing real harm to Americans. Listen to the complete program here: “I don’t think people […]
“The ‘gambler’s fallacy,’” also called the Monte Carlo Fallacy, “can affect everyone from athletes to loan officers, creating deceptive biases that lead you to anticipate patterns that don’t really exist,” according to David Robson for BBC Worklife. Robson posited a scenario to find out if you fall for the gambler’s fallacy: “Imagine you are tossing […]
