Something that data scientists are supposed to do but it's hard to even describe.

Last Friday we started a group at The Spark of Hudson on “How to Live a Good Life.” Despite announcing it only a couple of days earlier there was terrific turnout with almost twenty people attending.…

I’ve been thinking about this thread a lot, specifically this bit:

A reflection on Henry Zhu's essay about worldbuilding, images, and idolatry.

Humans do not merely recognize patterns. They construct progressively richer representations from their observations. This article proposes a typed model of cognition in which learning is the…

The four levels of measurement are useful, but their familiar classroom explanations obscure the difference between what numbers represent and what we can meaningfully do with them.

i think the definition of what deeptech is, is shifting. the term itself is super oblivious to me as it feels much like a term to define “we are doing real tech” instead of “we are…

For my piece on Catholic miracle apologetics, I read (correction: skimmed) a 25,000-word post by rationalist blogger Scott Alexander. My piece, which cited (but does not focus on) his, ended up being…

Some personal thoughts about the state of human writing and my personal motivation for working on my blog after a realization I had ten minutes ago.

There are times when binaries are good

Contents Confidence in a verdict is inversely related to the context behind it An observer never experiences the missing information as missing Chesterton wrote the rule down in 1929, and almost…

This is my first post on Substack. It follows 18 years of The Cockatoo Chronicles where I’ve tried to draw coherence from the disparate threads we all observe. Pattern recognition someone once called…

A quote from a thought provoking pensata by Diomidis Spinellis. (…) building this AI-driven world, riding through the bumps along the road, and preparing to live a fulfilling and satisfying…

I think we all have parts of us that are put together and parts that are not put together And some of us choose only to show the world the parts that are And we do ourselves and the world a…

You know The Law of the Instrument in one form or another. Wikipedia attributes this version to Maslow: I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it…

Mysticism, Miracles, and Mystery How are these three categories related? Are they connected in any way? I shall say not. Mysticism is the idea centrally that there is a way of knowing about the world…

When supermarket eggs were getting expensive a while back, a local farmer’s market vendor said she was raising the price of her eggs. Not because her input costs were increasing—they…

Your privacy choices affect people around you.

They share a common root in the way we think

If you think about it, there is *a lot* of software that hasn’t been built across hundreds of industries because our best paid designers and engineers were occupied with building social…

Watch me type every character while I write about writing while you watch

Well, I've finally done it. I set myself up a newsletter on Substack and I've written my first few articles (only the first is currently live), but this was enough to make me realise what I wanted to…