Upstart and Algorithms of Exclusion
On July 27th, the New York Times published an article about algorithms that “determine character” titled, you guessed it, Determining Character With Algorith...
On July 27th, the New York Times published an article about algorithms that “determine character” titled, you guessed it, Determining Character With Algorith...
“I didn’t realize [Turing] was as important as he was.” — Claude Shannon1 Shannon, personal communication, 25 September 1980. See van den...
In 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...
Your 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 ...
I agreed to go on a date with panpsychism. Not that panpsychism came up to me after class and asked if I wanted to grab a coffee, or slipped me its phone num...
On Thursday, a friend and I watched the first half of Copenhagen, a film adaptation of Michael Frayn’s play of the same name about the mysterious meeting bet...
In 1952, a paper appeared in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology titled The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis. The paper’s aim was to provide an analysis of h...
For my birthday this year I have asked a dear friend of mine (and excellent baker) to make not a cake, but a series of nested crusts. I am generally delighte...
Today I had a thought: what if, for a day, every word spoken, written, and thought was value-neutral? Well, I thought it was a very cool thought. One friend ...