Stories by headalgorithm

A wearable cardiac ultrasound imager

Amazon strikes: Workers claim their toilet breaks are timed

AI Engine

The Best Time to Own a Domain Was 20 Years Ago; The Second Best Time Is Today

Efficiency over Performance

Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and the Bernoulli Numbers

Software and Its Discontents, Part 2: An Explosion of Complexity

The Dark Risk of Large Language Models

Lost Media: Finding Bill Clinton’s “Boxers or Briefs” MTV Moment

Free Will Is Only an Illusion If You Are, Too

Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin?

On the Measure of Intelligence (2019)

A Short, Totally Unofficial, History of Port Numbers in Web Development

Subscribe a Lot, Consume a Little

AGI will not happen in your lifetime: Grady Booch and Gary Marcus discuss

Rare long-range cortical connections enhance human information processing (2021)

The Legacy of Aaron Swartz: The Freedom of Information Movement

Tech Workers Need a Union

The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce: How the Sun Rose on the Silicon Valley (1983)

Geodesic Slice Sampling on the Sphere

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