How Being Bored Out of Your Mind Makes You More Creative
An unoccupied mind might be the most fruitful mind. But boredom is harder and harder to come by. The post…
Aggregating the Future
An unoccupied mind might be the most fruitful mind. But boredom is harder and harder to come by. The post…
The opacity of machine learning isn’t just an academic problem. It’s something we need in order to feel comfortable with…
Release the infinite monkeys into VR, and in not too long, someone’s going to pound out some Shakespeare. The post…
A glimpse into how technology, once again, is giving birth to new literary forms. The post The Best New Way…
Shifts in how tech is financed—and how people talk about it—mean that we’re about to see a much-needed boom in…
The physical world defeats our bots because it’s been designed by and for humans The post We’ve Given Bots Brains.…
Sometimes your feed needs to slow down to a titrated drip. That’s the appeal of the weekly newsletter. The post…
In essence, we’re watching the birth of a new type of language. Emoji assist in a peculiarly modern task: conveying…
A little bit of clutter, and especially tolerance of that clutter, can be good for the soul. The post Put…
The secret to making an artificial intelligence more convincing? Program it to kibbitz. The post To Make AI More Human,…