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On doing things other people can't
Sources of Power: winning by finding a different game instead of playing the standard one better, and why to pass on that meta-skill.
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How to Get Tenure
Even before I got tenure, folks have told me they’re “looking forward to an academic advice post on tenure.”
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Monkey the Cat Hunts for Dinner
Monkey the cat hunts for his dinner using an Arduino powered cat feeder.
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It Just Works
Marco Arment wrote about Apple losing the ‘functional high ground’ earlier this year, and it was met with tons of discussion - blog posts, podcasts, twitter battles and more. The…
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I Tried VR and It Was Just OK
It’s been about a year and a half since I wrote The Road to VR, and a… few… things have happened since then. * Facebook bought Oculus for a skadillion dollars * I have to continually read thinkpieces describing how the mere act of strapping a VR headset on your face
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The Unofficial Hacker News FAQ
Here is a small sample of stuff that pops up with some regularity, if you want me to add entries please mail me jacques@mattheij.com, if you ask a question that is hard to answer it may take a while before I can post it . Please note that I’m not affiliated with HN in any way other than being a user, the majority of…
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After 20 years, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy thrives on the web
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Beautiful stop-motion engine rebuild [video]
Chris Herridge spent eleven months painstakingly rebuilding the engine of his Triumph Spitfire Mk3 , and photographing the process. Over 3,000 photos later, and he created this amazing video of an engine being disassembled and rebuilt.
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A Bestseller Book That Didn't Exist
You know Jean Shepherd as author of the beloved A Christmas Story. But before that, he conspired to get a book that didn't exist onto The New York Times Best Seller List. Read how he pulled off the Hoax of the Century.
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How to destroy special collections with social media
I just got back from a wonderful trip to Rare Book School to deliver a talk in their 2015 lecture series. It was the last week of their summer season in Charlottesville, the week when the Descriptive Bibliography course (aka “boot camp”) was in full swing, and the weather was in all its hot, glorious humidity. I…
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The Internet With A Human Face
This is the text version of a talk I gave on May 20, 2014, at Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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My Life as an Autistic Wikipedian
Two years ago, I discovered that I was on the autism spectrum. As I learned more about myself and the way my brain worked, I started to look at past experiences through the lens of this newly-found…
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Nóirín Plunkett has died
It is with great sadness that the Foundation and its members were notified about the sudden passing of Nóirín Plunkett.
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2010)
Translations: – العربية – Norsk 汉语 – tiếng Việt – Español – Italiano – Français – Magyar – Português – română – Deutsch – Suomi – Svenska – Čeština – Русско – Íslenska – Nederlands – ελληνικά – עברית – Audio Version
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A Short Course in Thinking About Thinking (2007)
A SHORT COURSE IN THINKING ABOUT THINKING Edge Master Class '07 DANIEL KAHNEMAN Auberge du Soleil, Rutherford, CA, July 20-22, 2007 AN EDGE SPECIAL PROJECT