On Leaving FacebookI decided to leave Facebook 25 weeks ago. The decision was inspired largely by a beautiful N+1 post, that I shared in my life moment on Facebook announcing m...
Everyone’s a Little Bit RacistI reviewed Christian Rudder’s book “Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)” for the Wall Street Journal. A huge thank you to the unwielding f...
The Ban and the Bit: Alan Turing, Claude Shannon, and the Entropy Measure “I didn’t realize [Turing] was as important as he was.” — Claude Shannon1 Shannon, personal communication, 25 September 1980. See van den...
Non-Anti-Pattern-Less-NessIn drafting my proposal to present in the TEDxGallatin Senior Symposium, I found myself agonizing over the fact that there isn’t a single satisfactory antony...
Neural Networks & Artificial Neural NetworksYour visual system does not work like a camera. If you don’t believe me, think about what happens to an image if, while taking it, you shake the camera from ...
