For a cleaner, more permanent solution, consider heat-shrink grip tubing. Slide it over the handle, warm it with a heat gun, ...

In January 2019 I wrote out scores of prompts for thinking long term that I felt should inform the foundation I was later co-chair of, The Long Now Foundation. These axioms were only shared internally ...

Tips for philanthropy. For some people “Giving Money Away Can Be Harder Than Making It” so Roy Bahat, someone whose lifelong habit has been to give money away, has written up ...

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Patterns in Nature by Philip Ball University of Chicago Press 2016, 288 pages, 8.5 x 10 x 1.1 inches ...

Retired after a varied career of programming, writing, and teaching, I live now in British Columbia and have the daily joy of ...

Two years ago I caught someone trying to steal my car. They were doing it in a way that would not set off my alarm. That prompted me to do a bunch of research about the current state of the art of ...

Lately I’ve been asking myself: what might artificial intelligence be good for besides answering questions and writing code? My answer is the latent spaces within AIs themselves will become a new ...

A popular Internet meme pairs a photograph of astrophysicist and humanitarian Carl Sagan with that of reality show star and shrill media figure Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi. The caption states, “If you don ...

The Nature of the Physical World was written by the astrophysicist who confirmed Einstein’s relativity. It explores how modern physics has dissolved the solid world we thought we knew into something ...

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