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Non-Commutative Reading Order : When Books Speak to Each Other Across Time
It’s fascinating how books aren’t mere repositories of information. That the order in which you encounter them actually dictates how your understanding evolves.
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Killer Application: The Surprising Correlation Between Engineering Education and Terrorism
It’s not that terrorists are desperate for tech-talent, it’s that engineering education breeds the type of mindset that’s conducive to extremism.
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Quarks, Gluons & Jabberwocks : On Aptonyms and Nonce Words
It’s a very human tendency to conflate representations with reality. We are, after all, symbol-processing machines.
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Sad Swede, Happy Swede
Swedish novelists feel bad about life. Meanwhile the rest of the population seem to be doing quite alright.
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Imperfectly Understanding Quantum Discord
When forced to simplify, some experts explain discord as a measurement of a certain system’s “quantumness”
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Show Me Your Canon And I’ll Tell You Who You Are
What we’re left with in a post-canonical world, is lists. Lists reflect their creator’s point of view in ways that make for great conversation starters.
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Most of All, You Need a Junkyard
It would be smart if we could incentivise up-and-coming players to compete on ideas and execution, rather than on who’s got the bigger machine.
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Hello Tomorrow 2024 : the Good, the Bad & the Ugly
There’s a lot to like about Hello Tomorrow. What attracts me the most has to do with its tonality.
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Abortive Action : the Power of Walking Away
Steve Jobs famously said that “real artists ship”, but Ulf Lundell was perhaps even more profound in stating that “a cancelled concert is also a concert.”
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Finally Proof: the Limits to AI Are Not What We Thought They Were
In a funny kind of way, a study like this seems to produce knowledge which extends our ignorance.
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The Case Against “Deep Work”
The notion of deep work provides a great excuse for not getting shit done.
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The Enemy Within
The nazis couldn’t resist the urge to separate themselves from non-arian elements, just as the post-war US establishment couldn’t resist the temptation to go witch-hunting communists. What causes this type of psycho-political auto immune disorder?
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The ‘A’ in AI
Artificial or Augmented, which team do you root for?
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Ignorant, Incompetent, Functionally Stupid, or Just Plain Dumb?
Being ignorant means you’re in the dark. Ignorance can be charming; it’s what makes children and dogs cute.
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A Beautiful Temptation
What constitutes the canonical English language novel? A deceptively simple idea turns into a cognitive quagmire.