The Scientific Method
The Scientific Method I use has four phases:
Kyle Duffy
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Franklin the Writer
As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin would sneak writing samples under the door of his brother’s printing shop, hoping they’d find their way into the The English Courant—the shop’s major news publication. He later became famous for writing Poor Richard’s Almanac, several treatises on natural sciences, and countless diplomatic letters. He says of himself:
Talking to Strangers
I recently finished a gig calling alumni from Oriel college, Oxford as part of a phone campaign from the Development Office. The purpose of the campaign was to improve affinity and convince alumni to donate to the college. About halfway through, I realized I was getting a lot more out of it than I expected I would. I now believe every person should do something like this at least once in their…
Funding Fusion
Alex Tabarrok recently posted on Marginal Revolution about properties necessary to the success of “Operation Warp Speed,” which was an effort by the US federal government to roll out mRNA vaccines in response to COVID.
The Use of Knowledge
My mind has been occupied by Hayek’s The Use of Knowledge in Society for the past 3 days.
Post Quantum Scaling I
Quantum computing poses a threat to security protocols underlying the modern internet, but it doesn’t have to pose a threat to the future’s internet.
The Path to Jarvis Part I
Existing communication channels between the human brain and machines have insufficient bandwidth to express the entire space of human ideas.
Deducing Definitions
I started writing something about necessary yet insufficient descriptions of complex problems and gave it the title “What Makes an Apple Pie?”, but in my difficulty composing that essay, I decided that a more apt approach to my first entry in Thoughts of The Day would directly address something to do with formalizing thoughts. Maybe one day you’ll learn what makes an apple pie, but today is not…