Stories by jsomers

The Shallowness of Google Translate, by Douglas Hofstadter

Saving the World from Code

A typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc

Keepers of the Secrets

DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc

Most book clubs are doing it wrong

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria: The Tragedy of Google Books

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

Don't Use the Force, Luke–Use the Targeting Computer

How the Like Button Ruined the Internet

Some Computer Conversation Is Changing Human Contact (1990)

Wandering the web stacks to improve your information diet

Creating Trading Strategies from Sentiment

Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks

The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think

Should Surgeons Keep Score?

Wandering the web stacks to improve your information diet

Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems

The understated importance of doing things quickly

The Git game: Guess who on your team wrote a commit based only on their message

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