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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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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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Getting Over Steve
The gospel of Jesus Christ was an exclusively male affair, but there are at least three female takes on Steve.
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The World’s Not Enough : Steve Jobs Held Hostage By Own Exquisite Taste
It’s sad to think that we need disaster to strike in our lives, in order to sober up and see what’s worth a damn. Sad, but at the same time also somehow hopeful.
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We Need to Talk About Steve
My bromance with Steve goes back as far as I can remember. That’s probably why I felt such a severe case of cognitive dissonance when picking up Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ memoir Small Fry.
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An Occupational Hazard : Suffering the Reverse Dunning-Kruger Effect
My dream has come true, only I should have been more careful what I wished for…
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Into The Soft Zone
Where adults need to protect their fragile zone with headphones, nicotine and seclusion, kids naturally invite whatever the world serves up and use it creatively.
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Interesting Spells I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T-E-D
The latest HBO show feels as random as life itself. It really shouldn’t work, and yet something keeps it all together.
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Mode Confusion and the Future of Robot Design : Lessons from Human Factors Engineering
Human factors engineering taught us to minimise the risk for mode confusion. That’s highly pertinent when designing interaction with social robots.
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Distributed Cognition
When you forget the details of some complicated concept and have to consult an external resource, that’s distributed cognition.
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What Doing Looks Like : Why We Struggle with Productivity and How to Fix It
I’d like to be a bit like Mrs. Whiting myself. She knows where she wants to go and she can turn that crystal clear vision into manageable chunks of action.
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On Focus: The Power of Switching Between Attention and Diffusion
Our brains are built to toggle back and forth between sharp and fuzzy. Proper learning can only happen in the interplay between daydreaming and attention
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Ghost in the Machine : A Brief History of AI in Therapy
Machine based therapy would be the ultimate proof of generalised artificial intelligence. I’d like to think it’s not too much to expect.
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Use the Force
Knowing your opponent’s most ardent desire is the key to beating them at their own game.
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Steady On Target
It’s all very well to come up with an award winning strategy, the tough bit is to stick to it when the goings get rough.