Records

Notes on science, engineering and everything inbetween

• The Fog of Physics
• Franken-tech
• Out Of Control
• What Is It Like To Be An Inventor?
• Sometimes the Best is the Enemy of the Good
• “Most of All, You Need a Junkyard“
• Poking the Bear
• Significantly Different
• The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
• The Internet Isn’t Dead, It Just Smells Funny
• The Gothenburg Syndrome
• Don’t Be a Leader
• Stumbling On Innovation
• Language an *Interface* to Intelligence?
• “Scientists & Engineers”
• Just An Opinion
• Dismissing Freud
• Yoko Tawada Is Thinking About the Romans
• Don’t Even Think About It
• Addicted to Thinking
• Licensed to Code
• Not The Natural Business of a Scientist
• The Enemy’s Enemy
• “The Job It’s Your Destiny To Do“
• “Our Only Hope Is Antisemitism”
• Don’t Judge This Book by its Title
• the Word Mincer : In Silico
• The Spell Checker: it’s I-N-F-L-U-E-N-C-E-D, not I-N-F-L-U-E-N-C-E-R
• Sure You Want That PhD?
• Dual-Use
• A State of Communicative Grace
• Science Means Separation
• Bimodality
• Practice Makes Perfect
• Indeterminate Zones of Practice
• Sterility vs. Creativity
• The Birth of Swedish Cool
• Things I Didn’t Know About Science
• Does Not Compute
• How *Not* To Use AI
• Who Asked You?
• Radical Restraint
• Feeling Is Believing
• Transcendental Robotics
• Built To Crash
• Stranger Than Fiction
• “Too old for this shit“
• “I don’t even have an opinion”
• “No there there”
• AT2021lwx
• Concrete Action
• Innovation Policy = Innovation Politics
• Crazy Good
• Pros and Cons of Structural Integration
• Technology Push vs. Market Pull
• Pros and Cons of Vertical Integration
• Are You Experienced?
• Greatest Love Story Ever?
• Working the Angles
• The Ethos of Engineering
• PI-ism and Star Shaped Mentoring
• Hardware Hacks Under the Microscope
• Closet Open Source
• Graceful Degradation of Service
• If banks knew the price of risk, they’d self-regulate