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Inktober 2017

For Inktober I did a drawing each day illustrating something that is useful/interesting to know more about. The topics were (Click name to jump to the image): AI Part 1: Deep Networks AI Part 2: History AI Part 3: Theory vs Fact AI Part 4: Classifiers AI Part 5: What... [Read More]

AI

My thoughts on Elon Musk’s AI warnings: [Read More]

The scientific process and the Internet

I’m beginning a big project. This post will explain more, but for now, here’s my first shot at how the scientific process can leverage the unique capabilites of the internet.

Iceland is a Weird Place

If you were to ask an Icelandic sheep farmer freezing in his longhouse 500 years ago: "hey, will those rainy mountains and geysers make your descendants wealthy?" he would have said "you're crazy. sheep and fish are natural resources, rainy mountains just get in the way."  Fast forward 500 years. Those... [Read More]