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The Domestic Labour of Reading in Milton’s Areopagitica

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Does a healthy intellectual culture resemble a battlefield or a kitchen? In their labours to preserve food and transform it into wholesome cuisine, Milton saw an analogue for how the reading public might digest books — good and bad alike — into nourishing ideas.

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A few words about Blameless culture

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The concept of blameless culture has been around for a long time in other industries, and while the history isn’t clear, you could argue that it became an “official” part of the tech industry with the publication of the definitive book Site Reliability Engineering in 2016. My summary of blameless culture is: when there is […]

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Why Generative AI Won’t Disrupt Books

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Every new technology from the internet to virtual reality has tried to upend book culture. There's a reason they've all failed—and always will. In the …

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New lick of paint: Twentieth-century illustrators reimagined Victorian classics

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This is an unusual book. They place them in the literary culture Academics writing about nineteenth-century novels typically focus on the original texts.

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The gamification of reading is changing how we approach books

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Since its inception in 2007, Goodreads has been a place where people can come together and rate their favorite books, find new authors, and more. This writer juggles the greater implications of the site with our current reading culture.

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10 TED Talks that will inspire every Data Professional

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ArticleVideo Book This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. There is a popular phrase in pop culture, Water, water, every. The post 10 TED Talks that will inspire every Data Professional appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Unmasking the Bookworm in AI: A Deep Dive into the Literary Knowledge of Large Language Models

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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. So get your picks and brushes ready, and let’s dig in… “As research in cultural analytics is poised to be transformed by the affordances of large language models, we carry out… Read the full blog for free on Medium. Join thousands of data leaders on the AI newsletter.

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