I’d like to help others make better free and open source software so I’m making this standing offer: I’ll review your README for free. You have a free and open source project, and would like its README to be good. … Read more
Jeff Hawkins gets full credit for getting me first interested in the idea that neuroscience might lead to artificial general intelligence—an idea which gradually turned into an all-consuming hobby, and more recently a new job. I’m not alone in finding … Read more
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect is a collaborative effort aimed at a general audience by Judea Pearl, a professor of computer science at UCLA, and Dana Mackenzie, a science writer. As a medical student … Read more
I. Paul Fussell wants to talk about class. (well, wanted, past tense, it’s a 1983 book, we’ll come back to that later) He recognizes this might not be the most popular topic. When he tells people he’s writing a book … Read more