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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
Published on Res Obscura
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Apr 9
December 2023
Why do people hate maths?
And what should we do about it?
Dec 13, 2023
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Ananyo Bhattacharya
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November 2023
When Does Science Self-Correct? Lessons from a Replication Crisis in Early 20th Century Chemistry
Guest post by Paul von Hippel (Univ. of Texas)
Published on The Good Science Project
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Nov 15, 2023
Labatut's 'Frankenstein'
'The MANIAC' reveals more about the author than about von Neumann
Nov 4, 2023
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Ananyo Bhattacharya
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September 2023
The Coming of Enki X
The final part of a previously unpublished science fiction story
Sep 30, 2023
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Ananyo Bhattacharya
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Four ways of thinking
Your hometown skeptics called it champagne problems
Published on Logging the World
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Sep 28, 2023
August 2023
The Coming of Enki IX
Part nine of a previously unpublished science fiction story
Aug 31, 2023
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Ananyo Bhattacharya
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Age of Invention: Does History have a Replication Crisis?
Back in 2011, the field of psychology went into crisis. Some of the most famous and widely-cited experimental results could not be replicated by others…
Published on Age of Invention, by Anton Howes
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Aug 29, 2023
Expectancy Theory
A science fiction story that got mistaken for actual science
Aug 17, 2023
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Ananyo Bhattacharya
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Age of Invention: Cash Cows
He was born, farmed, and died at Dishley, much like his father before him. But Robert Bakewell, unlike most people, caught the improving mentality, or…
Published on Age of Invention, by Anton Howes
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Aug 10, 2023
July 2023
Oppie and Johnny, best frenemies of the Atomic Age. Part I
A fraught relationship helped spawn nuclear bombs and modern computers
Jul 18, 2023
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Ananyo Bhattacharya
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The Coming of Enki VIII
An update and part eight of a previously unpublished science fiction story
Jul 14, 2023
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Ananyo Bhattacharya
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