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Sunday, October 22, 2017
The Chicago culture
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President Zimmer of Chicago has recently emphasized the culture of the school as one committed to “discourse, argument and lack of deferen...
Thursday, October 12, 2017
The great human dislocation
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It is almost here; and a bit like a tsunami, by the time one sees the waves, it is likely too late. Humans have successfully migrated to e...
Saturday, October 7, 2017
The best segmentation game, yet
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Humans have been experts at segmentation schemes from inception, and for good reasons. For most of their history, their survival depended ...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
The price of healthcare
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Health, a recently identified luxury for humans, has been poorly understood. It was not a concern in a regime where humans ended their liv...
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Charade
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Music has been integral to humanity from inception. Endowed with a finely tuned listening device and an evolutionary accident that provid...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Bad design
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Chemistry has been easy. Even in biological systems, humans quickly found hammers to eliminate any nails that surfaced. They found ways to...
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Risk of ignorance
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Humans appear to have positioned themselves into a corner, between rock and the hard place. The political systems they built over the last...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Lazy deep learning
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The neural net, an old technology, improved recently by marginal tricks for faster and stable learning, is now the most expensive old wine...
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