It chose my job, my two months in Australia and my city, but I never let it pick my lunch. It took me six experiments and a few thousand simulated versions of my life to figure out why.

Inspiration Forum is the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival’s platform for thinking about the contemporary world - Pubs Against Fascism! An Interview with Lauren Leek on Maps and “Third ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

How LLMs Learn Low-, Medium-, and High-Effort Reasoning Modes

Everyone watches the racing. I'm watching the data on riders, money, towns, and what the Tour is really about. Click to read Tour de data, by Lauren Leek, a Substack publication. Launched 18 hours ago...

The Devonshire’s landlord argues why, and how, we should save the British public house.

Why London keeps losing its independent neighbourhood restaurants, and what a basket lowered from a Lebanese window taught me about what is happening.

I show data on two trends undermining surveys: the collapse of human response rates and the increase of AI agents. I'll also discuss downstream implications and propose some possible solutions.

A damning cache of documents has laid bare the extent to which criminality has been allowed to take place in well-known venues.

How Australia kept its third places alive, what it hid inside them, why Britain’s fix made the problem worse, and what happened when I tried to beat the machine.

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Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates disappearing restaurants on Google Maps with Lauren Leek, a social data scientist, who grew so frustrated with this problem that she decided to build her own.

Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates disappearing restaurants on Google Maps with Lauren Leek, a social data scientist, who grew so frustrated with this problem that she decided to build her own.

I built a machine learning model to find London's divide and you can enter your postcode to see which side you're on. We've been blaming the wrong people for it.

I built a machine learning model to find London's divide and you can enter your postcode to see which side you're on. We've been blaming the wrong people for it.

I built a machine learning model to find London's divide and you can enter your postcode to see which side you're on. We've been blaming the wrong people for it.