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An essay I wrote tracing the 80-year evolution from Vannevar Bush's 1945 vision of the memex to Geoffrey Hinton's contemporary warnings about artificial intelligence. Shout out to …

Taking Ethereum as an example, if I exclude the known institutional addresses (taken from etherscan's tags), the results change very little. The top 1% has about 92.5% of the ETH. …

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

I just happened to start my own gag @reply bot last night, https://twitter.com/AssHobby , and quickly hit this same problem. I tried to get clarification on what I was doing that w…

Open-sourcing the code would only be the first step. To make the experiments truly reproducible, you also need to know the hardware and software configurations used to run it. Diff…

I agree, you definitely want to keep some sort of free tier. There are a lot of apps out there that claim to do this, or something similar. After trying a bunch of them I found one…

Very misleading indeed. But, honestly, I think his shift to smaller games/teams could be for the best. It's hard to guess how much influence he had anymore when "producing" titles.…

A couple of years ago, NYC's open data ( http://nycopendata.socrata.com/ ) seemed really exciting, but from my brief perusal of the datasets, they appeared limited. It looks like t…

Limiting the height is a good idea. Though it seems like it might look a bit barren with so much white to the left and right of the picture. What are your thoughts on sites that sc…

Any quick tips for improving the look of my blog(s): http://www.justanotherphotoblog.com/ ? (My other blogs are pretty similar too..) I don't have a bad eye for web design, but act…

I was in Istanbul a few months ago and the traffic was the craziest I've ever seen. It didn't really seem like anyone paid attention to the traffic signals anyway. I don't see how …

I just took his course last semester. Glad I had the opportunity. He was always full of interesting stories.

What is this, pacifist Pacman? I can't eat the ghosts! (And they can't eat me.)

I tried it out last night with a couple of friends. It certainly works fine, quality is good and all. And it was easy enough (aside from installing the plugin for the first time). …

Modern Philosophy now goes to Western Europe rather than Philosophy. And since everything seems to go through that, nothing will reach philosophy anymore.

Some great things come out of 4chan, but they also do some really terrible things. It's sad that they tricked a few people, but it sounds like they didn't do what they had hoped fo…