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- Buy Microsoft stock as they add AI to every one of their products
- Worst scientific experiment ever?
- Abstractions are distractions to an AI-assisted programmer
- How memory works
- LTSF 2019
- Unbound 2019
- Fun things to do for free in London (list)
- Small wins (list)
- Running a Premortem
- Friendships and memory effects
- Soft and hard skills
- Why has Google open sourced TensorFlow?
- Entrepreneur vs Manager vs Technician
- Todo Zero
- Presentations at BarCamp Tampa 2015
- Mindfulness in scuba diving
- Listing things to look forward to
- "Oh, that should be easy - maybe a few minutes..."
- Sanity checks as data sidekicks
- Blogging with Wordpress and Emacs
- Final dissertation
- Pluviocabulary (rain words), Memrise-style
- The iPhone apps my cold, dead hands would cling most rigidly to
- Startup thinking - the people who have most influenced my thinking on startups.
- Where has all my disk space gone? (Mac)
- Get your users to tell you what they really want
- Storyville and Jenga iPhone apps
- Setting up your own domain name and website
- Breaking the seal
- A letter to a prospective grad student
- When I am famous, I will decline interviews
- But where does the wisdom come from?
- The muses are deaf, so speak up
- A wiki for spaces. A town anyone can edit. School architecture founded on mnemonic principles
- How can your iPhone make you even more entertaining and interesting than you already are?
- Master Turkers
- Brain orchestras and fMRI analyses
- Auto-links
- Eroding our minds
- I refuse to consider an advertising-based business model
- Nietzsche
- Communal interactive jukebox
- House MD, gibberish and clown school
- What's blowin' in the wind?
- Dropbocumentation
- Excretation over
- A hivemind with a sense of humor
- My two favorite music videos of all time
- The pain of forgetting
- How to beat an fMRI lie detector
- Losing weight
- Our one true inalienable right
- Why is it that chocolate and whisky help when I want a cigarette?
- Word pools for psychology experiments
- I don't believe in luck
- On patents as a business tool
- Self Control through software
- Mobile phones should be felt but not heard
- Emacs backup files
- Google, here's some context
- Sssssssshhhhhhhhhhh... for now
- Picking scientific reviewers
- iThimble
- Assortative mixing for peer review
- The wallet washkit for the man about town
- Open source the Drobo data format
- Mobile phone ringing
- Dice Man iPhone app
- Spacetime alarms
- Did you know that the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary?
- Alleviating tinnitus, and the shape of the auditory phenomenological landscape
- Emacs Freex gets a new home
- If I were to write a novel
- Adam Detre's recommendations on music in late 2008
- We only use 10% of our brains?
- PyEPL blog
- WriteRoom? DarkRoom? MushRoom!
- Switching from linux to mac
- Losing an old friend
- Email is the mind-killer
- Running a psychology experiment
- Evangelizing Emacs (in terms of economics)
- Sensing the buzz at a conference
- Create something shareable
- Matlab cookbook
- Emacs freex 0.3.1
- Using fancy methods to estimate shipping dates (Joel Spolsky's FogBugz)
- Scroogled
- Entangling the ground and cloud
- My take on emacsclient
- Testing the legs of the Sansa Express
- Collaborative filtering and how it's going to help us consume
- Neuroscience notes
- Make tags not trees - filesystem idea based on tags instead of hierarchical directories
- It has to be easy, and worth it, for you to add tags
- John Cunningham Lily, RIP
- The Pittsburgh EBC competition
- Push Singh
- Statler pulchrifex
- Lawrence Lessig
- Does eating salmon lower the murder rate?
- The world is your canvas
- The Turing tournament - a proposal for a reformulation of the Turing Test
- Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky and Steve Yegge and the Law of Increasing Returns
- Procrastination
- Google desktop search
- Google as my permanent online user id?
- Things that are still crap about linux
- Hard disk acceleromotors
- Philosophy as debugging
- For a moment I thought my wisdom was spreading by word of mouth
- Cringely on the RIAA
- Electronic voting
- Michael Behe, 'Darwin's Black Box'
- Fahrenheit 9-11
- Google goes public
- Cool interview with Linus Torvalds
- Reading: 1984 + 20 = 2004. coincidence?
- Direct democracy
- Nobody seems to want to improve the world
- My epitaph
- Shameless bid to get a gmail account
- Journal - Crashed
- Dragonlance gods and the Ancient Greeks
- The big lessons of philosophising
- Definitions - O'Reilly & Munakata
- Intrinsicality, symbols, self-organisation and gradual transformation
- The Cog team
- Attractors
- Consciousness quote from Kinsbourne
- Jimmy Carr
- Love is an illusion
- Atheists and foxholes
- Malonnaise
- Mathematician's refrain
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Why and the religious sense
- The wrong end of a telescope
- Happiness
- Marriage
- File-sharing
- Hot tips from the Viennese recliner
- Memories slipping through your fingers like sand...
- Mission statement
- Ender's game
- Semantic network hyper-reference of the brain
- Snow Crash
- No more ringtones
- Trophic levels, trade and the Terminator
- Hans Moravec on our future generations as robots
- Gradual transformability
- Lyrics from Dead Milkmen
- Curiosity
- Douglas Adams' favourite pieces of information
- McEwan
- Live each day...
- Rolls on representations
- Steve Larson on Minsky's model 6 framework
- Two-level tagging
- Bugs & testing
- The real reason we can’t define 'Artificial General Intelligence'