Polarities (Part 3)
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I’m talking about ‘causal loop diagrams’, which are graph with edges
labeled by ‘polarities’. Often the polarities are simply and signs, like
here: But pol...
Central Planning: China's Miracle--and Malaise
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*The illusion created by the initial success of central planning is that it
can continue indefinitely, when the reality is it's unavoidably
self-liquidatin...
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...
Monday Message Board
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion
and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the
sandpits,...
Week Notes 44-24
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A week of travel with the three of us, and mostly off work. We visited
Berlin, for the first time in 10 years, and with our 8 year old joining us.
During t...
How Every Empire Falls
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On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire
Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various
times b...
What about all the Alveopora? (Part 1)
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I was privileged to have the opportunity to study science at university,
and I have always been particularly interested in taxonomy that is naming,
defin...
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 ...
We can Terraform the American West
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Why is there almost nothing on the left hand side of the USA? Water
scarcity! We’re missing 300 million Americans. We’re missing 30 global
cities west of ...
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 ...
Oil shortages lead to hidden conflicts–even war
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Governments may want to reduce long-term interest rates, but they cannot do
so without having the market for these loans disappear. In this part of the
eco...
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...
Swiss winter school on Theoretical CS
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The Swiss Winter School on Theoretical Computer Science (Jan 26 — 31
2025, https://theory.epfl.ch/WinterSchool2025/) is the third installment in
a series o...
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
idėjos Dr Seymour Papert 1999 Pirmoji idėja – 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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