The Great Conjunction
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Near the end of December 2020, I saw Jupiter and Saturn very close in the
sky just after sunset. I didn’t know this was called a great conjunction.
The n...
NAIRU — a harmful fairy tale
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from Lars Syll The NAIRU story has always had a very clear policy
implication — attempts to promote full employment are doomed to fail since
governments an...
How Do We Fix the Collapse of Quality?
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*Every product now has an "extended warranty" admission of the collapse of
quality and durability. *
*There's a great uplifting hope swirling around the p...
No Meta Status Orgs
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In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private
philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to
studying and...
Reflections on Claims about Coral Cover (Part 1)
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The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) put out a media release
earlier today claiming to have scientifically documented changes in coral
cover...
Trump’s dictatorship is a fait accompli
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What can Americans do? What should Australia do? A few weeks ago, I drew up
a flowchart to estimate the probability that Trump would establish a
dictatorsh...
A Concept of a Plan … for the National Interest
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This discussion highlights the structural challenges facing America’s
economic and political system, emphasizing how vested interests manipulate
markets,...
An Assay of Core vs Functional Intelligence Types
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Not everyone excels in the same set of skills, and it is a mistake to
dismiss those whose abilities differ from our own as unfit for positions of
significa...
Week Notes 46-24
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A full week, in which my cold stayed around taking away energy and focus.
Also a few urgent unexpected things to attend to. So I didn’t get around to
my ow...
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
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(From Sergey Yekhanin; committee chair) Please nominate people to the
Kanellakis award – deadline is December 15.
https://awards.acm.org/kanellakis/nominat...
Copilot stopped talking to me
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I was reading some arguments by Bettina Arndt recently about women
dominating the legal profession, especially in the Family Law sphere, so I
thought I wou...
The climate case of the century
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by Lucas Bergkamp On the 12th of November, the Hague Court of Appeal ruled
in the “climate case of the century” that Milieudefensie (“FoE”) filed
against S...
Solar and batteries for generic use cases
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A brief note on using solar and batteries as generic power sources. Over
the last few years of work at Terraform Industries, we’ve developed several
useful...
LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN – Langston Hughes
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This poem, written in 1935 by black American jazz poet, communist, civil
rights activist, novelist and playwright, Langston Hughes (1901-1967), is
pertinen...
Letter to a Jewish voter in Pennsylvania
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Important Announcement: I don’t in any way endorse voting for Jill Stein,
or any other third-party candidate. But if you are a Green Party supporter
who li...
I’m joining the Cornell faculty!
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When I announced my intention to join Microsoft Research in 2008, my
friends set up a betting pool over how long I would “last” there. No one
thought that ...
Logo Overnight
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Gary pointed me to a Mitchel Resnick paper (that probably has Brian
Silverman ideas in it) called Logo Overnight: computer programs that are
designed ...
Tips For Building and Deploying Robots
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This post is not about research or developing software for robots. Instead
it is some tips on how to go about building robots for mass deployment and
how t...
Guest post: A letter to my son
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Photo source: Heidi Gregory
*In our work in the La Trobe Science of Language and Reading (SOLAR) Lab,
my colleague Professor Tanya Serry and I have conta...
I am an Associate Dean for Academics
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[image: A tweet by Associate Deans: “My favorite time of the year! Time to
cancel under-enrolled classes and reassign faculty to classes they aren’t
qualif...
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...
GPT-4oReview
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I asked GPT-4o to review this old technical report of mine. Speaking as a
sometime editor, I have had worse reviews from humans... Here is the resul...
Diary
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For the full record. Arthur Dent deliberately set out to wreck this site
early in 2016 and considering it was on life support at the time this was
easily a...
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. ...
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