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Life, wisdom, psychology
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Philosophy
Organising knowledge, wikis, and note-taking
Random tech ideas
Brain-scanning
Fun, joy
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For work-related stuff, see:

Making data mistakes newsletter (AI/data science, management, and software engineering)
Data Dig podcast (on data science team-building - from 2021).

Here are some of my favourites.

AI

see also: data science posts on Making Data Mistakes.

Life, wisdom, psychology

Society, ethics

Philosophy

What I think I learned from being a philosophy undergraduate.
Understanding why you disagree philosophically is a bit like debugging a computer program.

Organising knowledge, wikis, and note-taking

A long time ago, I wrote my own note-taking software. This got me thinking a lot about how we organise knowledge on computers.

We want to tag things, and for those tags to have their own hierarchy. (also)
Wouldn't it be great if our filesystem was tag-based?
Wikis should automatically create links for you as you type.

Random tech ideas

How publishing your writing on the internet should work.
An alarm for space instead of time - tell me when I get somewhere, instead of somewhen.
Recommendation engines will fuel consumption. And discover what's going to be popular next year by crowd-sourcing canaries in the coalmine.

Brain-scanning

I spent much of my PhD working on algorithms for making sense of gigabytes of brain data from fMRI scanners.

This is what Multi-variate Pattern Analysis (MVPA) algorithms are for.
How to beat an fMRI lie-detector. [they don't exist yet, but they probably will]
The DARPA competition to read minds with fMRI

Fun, joy

Small wins (list)
My two favourite music videos of all time

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see also: miscellany; old stuff

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