Blog
On intelligence, computation, and the work of asking better questions.
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Data as Cost — Big Cakes are Nice if you Like Cake
If data is cost, and algos are a commodity, what is it that we should value in the coming age of automated decision making?
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Solving the problem of problem solving
A proposal for people and machines to work in self-organising structures, starting with the problem rather than the solution.
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Pseudo-randomness is the opposite of randomness
An argument about randomness, order, and what happens when we try to select a number from infinity.
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Demystifying Causality — How to Move from Guesswork to Knowing
If researchers agree that cause and effect is important, why is it not the standard and correlation is — the blocker, is it philosophical or logistical?
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Brave new computing
On software efficiency, the distance between code and hardware, and the possibility of machines that write their own programs.
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Brave New Computing: The 10x Computer Club
A case for improving computation by removing unnecessary work, rather than adding hardware—and for machines that write code.