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Tradecraft : the Stuff They Don’t Teach You at School
Spies, coders, journalists—they all rely on intuition, improvisation, and experience. It’s tradecraft.
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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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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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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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The Science of Science
There’s an emerging scientific discipline dedicated to the study of science itself.
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What We Need Libraries For
I like to think of future libraries as places where we go to be inspired and surprised.
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Know Your Sh*t : Why Real Knowledge Comes from Deep Immersion
I was once taught a powerful know-what-you’re-doing lesson.
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What I Think About When I Think About Design
There are basically two modes of problem solving that are in wide spread use. We need a complementary attack angle.