Readers’ wildlife photos
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Today we have the fifth set (8 to come) of photographs taken by reader
Robert Lang on a visit to Brazil’s Pantanal. His captions and IDs are
indented, and ...
Meet the Maker: April Capalungan (APRL)
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A Peek into APRL’s Paper Playground Today’s spotlight is on April
Capalungan, a contemporary paper folder and visual storyteller who embraces
experimenta...
Dispensing with the US-centric financial system
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Quick quiz. Suppose you read a headline in the online version of the Wall
Street Journal (or NY Times etc) stating that, from now on, US Treasury
bonds wou...
The Tax Benefits of Self-Employment
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*Lowering one's tax burden is not the reason to pursue self-employment, but
it is something worth understanding if you're exploring self-employment. *
*It...
FAQ on Microsoft’s topological qubit thing
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Q1. Did you see Microsoft’s announcement?A. Yes, thanks, you can stop
emailing to ask! Microsoft’s Chetan Nayak was even kind enough to give me a
personal ...
Week Notes 07-25
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A busy week for me, against a darkening geopolitic background. I worked in
Milano mostly, where I arrived last Sunday. This week I Participated in the
plen...
What is a Specious Argument?
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Contrary to its traditional definition as an argument that “seems true but
is actually false,” speciousness arises when reasoning is based on
species-level...
Why Gold Prices Should Rise—But Don’t
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Gold demand has outstripped supply for years, yet prices remained stagnant
until recently. Economist Michael Hudson explains that the gold market is
not ...
Using MirrorMaker 2 for simple stream processing
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Kafka Connect Single Message Transformations (SMTs) and MirrorMaker can be
a simple way of doing stateless transformations on a stream of events.
There are...
Do you see what I see?
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As a young adult, I used to play a game I called The Accent Game. I have an
unusual accent, and no one can ever figure out quite where I’m from. When
peopl...
Category Theorists in AI
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Applied category theorists are flocking to AI, because that’s where the
money is. I avoid working on it, both because I have an instinctive dislike
of ‘hot...
Become a Firefighter for Democracy
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Wildfires are terrifying. They are especially gobsmackingly horrible when
you add in hurricane-style winds. I will never forget the day of the
Marshall Fir...
Phase 4
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Phase 4 of the Russo / Ukraine war has been underway for many months. I
ought to have started a new thread and explained why I thought so back when
the Kur...
Zelenskyy tells it like it is…
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Global Cooperation Davos 2025: Special Address by Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
President of UkraineJan 21, 2025 This article is part of:World Economic
Forum Annual...
Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01
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[You can follow me on social media: @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social and see my
publications etc., at https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks] This is my
seventh ann...
Fragmentation in academic leadership
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[image: On the top half, green flowing river water, and on the bottom,
fractured rock.]Academic leadership is essential, impossible. Credit: Bernd
Dittrich...
Papert’s 8 Big Ideas (Lithuanian Translation)
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Translation by Marius Narvilas Aštuonios didžiosios konstrukcionizmo
idÄ—jos Dr Seymour Papert 1999 Pirmoji idÄ—ja – mokytis darant. Visada
išmokstama ger...
On taking first steps into a new orientation
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This is a follow-up to my post On improving a computing model. My posting
to this blog has slowed down a lot over the last few years. One reason for
that i...
Experts vs. Imitators
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If you want the highest quality information, you have to speak to the best
people. The problem is many people claim to be experts, who really aren’t.
Saf...
Marble Maze Modules
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Beyond the Marble: How Modular Mazes Build Skills and Spark Wonder Building
a marble maze is more than just a fun challenge—it’s a gateway to exploring
a w...
Return to 4th grade Code Club
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One of my high school seniors wanted to do a service project teaching
coding to elementary students. He loved our field trip to the elementary
school that ...
Wellness: Bad Stress: Philosophy – Stoicism
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In a previous post, I mentioned that I started researching wellness a few
months into the pandemic when I noticed my physical and mental health
declining. ...
Podcast: David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
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Dialectical analyses of the capitalist totality through a Marxist lens.
David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is co-produced with Politics In
Motion, ...
Dreamtime (fragment)
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Erin Riley is producing an exhibit of my TurtleArt and ArtLogo programming
at Greenwich Academy in March of 2020 and is helping, along with Zoë
Hedstrom...
ScreenTime
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It is pretty easy to add a rectangular fly screen to a sash window. But
the problem with sash windows is that the maximum they can open is half,
and th...
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