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Zen Evolution: A Small Overview (2022)
I feel like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland who is always short on time…Alice in...
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60-Bit Computing
Control Data Corporation 6600Sometimes looking at historic systems can prompt us to challenge our thinking.The Control...
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I tried and failed to automate my life
AI generated by SDXLIn late 2022, my spouse lamented that it was difficult to keep track...
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Incomplete thoughts on contrastive audio models
I’ve been spending my time recently preparing various pieces of infrastructure to train an audio model...
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To all the newspapers I loved
I was always in love with (in-print) newspapers.In the past you did not have to write...
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Why Drug History?
Somewhat by accident, I’ve now written two books about the history of drugs. This was not...
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In China, clean energy is now THE driver of overall economic growth
As data from the IEA confirm, the scale of China’s green energy push in the last...
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Easy Introduction to Vector Databases
As part of the massive shift into AI, vector databases have been increasing in popularity. Also...
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Why Custom GPTs are better than plugins
On November 6, 2023, OpenAI announced Custom GPTs. Since then, over 3 million GPTs have been...
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The Apparent Simplicity of RGB Rendering
The primary goal of physically-based rendering (PBR) is to create a simulation that accurately reproduces the...
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How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech
Although this article isn’t related to any of the 12 Challenges so far, it’s on a...
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Global fertility isn't just declining, it's collapsing
“Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that...
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How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent
This is a blog post aimed at people who want to do important work or make...
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There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)
Speculative map of the planet Mars, by Camille Flammarion (1884)Sometimes, for example when I watch the...
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Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech
I spent a fair portion of my adult life working for large tech companies. In all...
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When the "R" goes missing from R&D (2021)
Credit: Bob Cuthill via Getty ImagesI had my suspicions that something was terribly wrong with how...
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A man who collects lost pet posters
Towards the end of July in the year 1970-something, a woman named Diana lost her three-month-old...
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Jane Street's "Figgie" Card Game
Jane Street Capital invited a card game in 2013 called “Figgie.”Img src: Jack HamiltonIf you are...
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Yes, the last 10 years have been worse for free speech
ACLU National Legal Director David Cole has a review of my and Rikki Schlott’s book, “The...
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The Enchippening
If there’s one thing that keeps getting better, it’s computer chips, right?Transistors keep getting smaller, so...
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Copper, Abundance, and Scarcity Julian Simon vs. Thomas Malthus
David Henderson writes,In August 2022, my former co-blogger Arnold Kling wrote a critical review of Superabundance....
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Hiring ONLY seniors is the worst policy in the software industry
Every company has a different excuse:In small startups - “we are a very small team and...