Stories by jsomers

A Journey to the Center of Our Cells

Snow Science Against the Avalanche (2020)

The quest to build a general-purpose thought decoder

Should we cool it with the historical present?

Should we cool it with the historical present?

The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer

The Plague Year

A Great Prize, a Long-Suffering Inventor and the First Accurate Clock (1956)

Crowdsourcing dynamic illustrations for a new astronomy book

I should have loved biology

How the Coronavirus Hacks the Immune System

Engineers Take on the Ventilator Shortage

Automatically finding Codenames clues with GloVe vectors

Automatically finding Codenames clues with GloVe vectors

How Hackers Won the Water

Machining the Ultimate Hackathon Prize

IsTheWeatherWeird.com

The Braindead Megaphone (2007) [pdf]

A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons for software engineers

How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games

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