Month: February 2021
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How do you value time? There is a series of questions related to this question, but the biggest of them all is an existential one: what should I do next, how should I spend my time? When we value our time the first challenge is to choose the resolution, the…
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One of the things I have come to feel is increasingly important, is to organize some sort of personal knowledge management. I have a number of different tools that I have been playing around with including Notion and Bear. The challenge is that I have essentially three things I want…
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New episode of Richard Allan’s podcast. All feedback welcome.
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Scientists report that the residual amounts of drugs, like Prozac, are affecting the fish that live in waste water in weird ways. Here is a report from ScienceAlert: To probe further, Polverino and his team ran a two-year experiment in the lab, subjecting generations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) to targeted…
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Predicting is hard, especially the future, as Yogi Berra supposedly pointed out. But it is interesting – but not necessarily for the reasons we originally think. Predicting the future is interesting not because you want to find out if you are right, but you want to use the predictions you…
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It is no secret that AI is currently a hot subject – in politics, law and, of course, in investing. The idea here is right: this new technology may well revolutionize business after business and not paying attention to it would be folly. But there is an interesting question sitting…
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Available over at Axess’ wonderful website here.
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In an Edge-seminar held by Tetlock recently there was an interesting back and forth about the value of predictions. One view – held by Danny Hillis – could be simplified as: people do not think in predictions, they think in stories and so when people are wrong about the future…
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One of the core criticisms of platforms is that they have become far too powerful. While this is more of a throw-away comment, it is interesting to examine it up close to see if it can be turned into a hypothesis and tested – and what I am most interested…
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One interesting question in examining any ideology is where you start. What are your starting premises when you decide how you think we best live together and organize our polity? You can start in different places – someone starting from the assumption that the state rests on the divine will…