randomness

6 min read 2022-01-29 15:29:11

How Hobby Community Echo Chambers Happen

Recently, I had a discussion on Twitter (genuinely a discussion, not a fight, a small miracle for the hellish birdsite!) about the often repeated and

12 min read 2022-01-25 14:41:53

With a ship outfitted and crewed, armed decently enough and with a substantial loan breathing down their necks, it’s time for the intrepid crew of

13 min read 2022-01-20 13:33:16

I’ve been enjoying a 40K renaissance for the past six or so months, with an evening a week carved out for our group’s Crusade campaign, which

1 min read 2021-07-26 03:10:50

In the modern theory of higher order Fourier analysis, a key role are played by the Gowers uniformity norms for . For finitely supported functions

1 min read 2021-06-29 18:00:23

As I mentioned in the Season 3 premiere, I will be infusing some non- traditional corporate leadership conversation into the show. And this will be

1 min read 2021-04-29 02:55:00

A recent article in the Guardian very nicely summarised “the free will debate”, or at least the more visible parts of it. The debate is a live

1 min read 2021-04-04 14:34:15

I have always been fascinated by the above comic strip. A discussion on randomness and determinism becomes as much a philosophical issue as it is a

2 min read 2021-01-25 17:40:38

When I saw the inspiration for this round of style imitating art I immediately knew I had to join in. This time the host is Salazar herself, creator

1 min read 2021-01-14 02:29:00

KM: I’m grateful to Coel Hellier (@colhellier) for writing a blogpost in response to one I wrotearguing that if determinism falls, it takes

1 min read 2020-12-13 01:36:00

I’ve been writing lately (in this article and blogpost, for example) about agency and more specifically about whether neuroscience or basic physics

1 min read 2020-12-07 20:44:54

We tend to measure performance by what happens when things are going well. Yet how people, organizations, companies, leaders, and other things do on

10 min read 2020-11-19 04:06:21

Andrew Demirjian, Hunter College, CUNY This paper presents a model for teaching drawing with computer programming, using conceptual and visual

1 min read 2020-10-20 17:00:48

On this episode of Rants & Randomness, I’m talking to an absolutely amazing athlete and human, Abby Wambach. Download Episode 51

1 min read 2020-10-20 12:52:39

Hello, hello! Today I am taking part in Style Imitating Art again, for the first time in a while. I keep forgetting about it but for once I

2 min read 2020-09-29 16:00:16

This is one of my favorite conversations I’ve ever had on Rants & Randomness. I absolutely cannot wait for you to hear this one. Download