This is the type of headline I would have expected to have to write for stoned teenagers. But according to CNN, earlier this year 42% of surveyed CEOs say that could happen. CEOs of what, you might ask? Who knows. There were certainly some tech CEOs in there, but there […]
If you spend much time reading about Artificial Intelligence and philosophy of the mind, you will hear about John Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment. Written in 1980, it is an argument that however well a computer is able to imitate a mind, it cannot actually think. The argument goes something […]
The other day I was in an argument with someone (I know, shocking, right?) in which the cost to send a hypothetical package out of the solar system came up. The details aren’t particularly relevant (they involve a death snail and $10 million), but I was curious how much it […]
Warning, this post is going to be about one of the most boring topics possible, font choice. The Washington Post reports the State Department has ordered a shift in font choice from Times New Roman to Calibri. The justification is that a serif font like Times New Roman (serifs are […]
I just got Google + the other day, for all the hype I am currently a bit disappointed. One issue of course is that I still know practically know one on it, which should change as they open their doors and I invest the time to find people again. And some things […]