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5 Sep

PUFAs, Nutrition, and How we Make Decisions

When the topic of nutrition arises in conversation, most people will voice an opinion. Maybe the easy familiarity we have with nutrition comes from it being a close and personal topic, as well as within reach of comprehension, unlike...
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17 Aug

Solution Space: Unexpected Shutdown

You’re in the middle of finishing up an important document, using reference materials scattered across browser tabs, open PDFs, and an email chain — and your computer shuts down. Whether due to system error or a scheduled mandatory upgrade, unexpected...
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3 Aug

Under One Roof: What New Tech Means in the Workplace

In July 1978, the New York Times transitioned from a hot-type to a cold-type system — from cast metal typesetting with red hot metal to the quiet, cool computer-based systems still employed in principle today. The video exploring the...
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24 Mar

The Telecommute Transition

In the advancing modern world, it’s not news that the presence of telecommuting, working from home, remote work, or any other description of avoiding the office in the pursuit of work has been on the rise for a number...
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8 Oct

Plotting the Curve of Life

In life, we like to talk about our highs and our lows, the changes and trends, the roller coaster that we live on. I like to think about these factors as line segments on a graph, and — taking the...
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15 Aug

“Scrappy Path”

In the world of software, you often hear about the “happy path” of a product. A “happy path” is the optimal use case, the ideal journey a user takes to accomplish a goal in a piece of software, from...
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15 Jul

Is a Neural Network of Glass an AI?

A recent publication in the Optical Society’s journal of Photonics Research demonstrates how certain computing tasks (referred to in the article as “artificial neural computing”) may be performed using a specially prepared sheet of glass (“nanophotonic medium”). For this...
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11 Jul

PUFAs, Nutrition, and How we Make Decisions

Solution Space: Unexpected Shutdown

Under One Roof: What New Tech Means in the Workplace

The Telecommute Transition

Plotting the Curve of Life

“Scrappy Path”

Is a Neural Network of Glass an AI?

A Will to Fail

Software Changes the World?

A Brief Discourse on Work

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