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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.
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Things I Didn’t Know About Quantum Entanglement
I’ve gained a valuable insight into how humanity’s collective understanding of this enigmatic field has evolved over time. I feel that goes a long way.
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What A Quarter Century Worth of Winners Says About the Booker Prize
Trying to get even the most ephemeral grasp of anything as complex as English language literature, might seem like a fools errand.