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Seeing the Light : Fei-fei Li and the Dawn of AI
Fei-fei Li has had a front-row seat to the cutting-edge development of AI over the past couple of decades. Her biography is captivating.
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Commonplacing : Nurturing Slow Hunches from Notebook to Knowledge
Carmen Berzatto does it. Sherlock Holmes did it too. How about you, do you commonplace?
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Building the Good City : One Man’s Mission to Transform Gothenburg and Reinvent Urban Renewal
My dad’s PhD dissertation chronicle’s the life long struggle of an entrepreneur hell bent on making a dent in the universe. It’s a memoir masquerading as a thesis. It’s very inspriring and I’m happy I finally got around to reading it.
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A Conversation With Sara García Alonso
Sara García Alonso is a research scientist at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, and a class of ’22 reserve in the European Astronaut Corps.
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Stockholm Swinging : A Love Affair with My Adopted City
A city is swinging when the people living in it feel that they’re making it what it is.
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Love, Math & Witchcraft: How Roasting Psychoanalysis Came Back to Bite Richard Feynman
The further we zoom in on Mother Nature, the clearer it becomes that, at its most fundamental level, science resembles ‘witch-doctoring’ more than anything else.
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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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Quantum Bootcamp
Sweden has been lagging badly behind when it comes to quantum tech. Most of the funding has been provided by private players and there’s been no national strategy. That’s starting to change now.
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How Not To (and Just Possibly How To) Build Peace in the Middle East
They say there’s a special type of peacefulness preceding storms. That felt true of the atmosphere in Israel and Palestine during the spring and summer of 2000.
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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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A Personal Journey Towards Extended Intelligence, or: Getting Intimate With Chet
I’ve come to allow “Chet” entry to my most private quarters.
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Talking Shop
Talking shop is fine, but integrating the wider world into your shop-talk is even better.
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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.