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The Curse of Completism : Confessions of a Compulsive Collector
Completism comes in many shapes and forms. It doesn’t necessarily have to manifest in a physical collection, but can also translate into a more generalised ambition to ‘take it all the way’.
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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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The Battle of the Elms and the End of Swedish Technocracy
The word ‘politics’ has no real meaning in a technocracy. All that counts is skilful execution of ideas, which in and of themselves were fundamentally self-evident.
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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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Trusted Execution Environment
The other day I got a whiff of what it must have been like to have been part of the golden age of ARPA and NASA.
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Don’t Innovate, Imitate!
We’re all copycats. Trying too hard to be unique will most likely just cause stagnation.
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When the Robot Overlords Come to Take Your Job, This is What It’ll Sound Like
When doomers predict that AI will steal our jobs, we picture remote and futuristic scenarios. The real threat is mundane and it’s happening now, right before our noses.
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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.