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Why is Microsoft Outlook still so crappy?
Let us count the ways … It is slow and laborious to open. Outlook Calendar is fundamentally flawed. Attaching a document requires a cumbersome five(!)-step procedure. It doesn’t let you cut-and-paste content from a Word file directly into the message of … Continue reading
A theory of Halloween
From Giorgio Agamben, “State of Exception,” translated by Kevin Attell, (University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp. 71-72: Folklorists and anthropologists have long been familiar with those periodic feasts (such as the Anthesteria and Saturnalia of the classical world and the … Continue reading
Costume contest
With pandemics on the mind, is the zombie costume too close for comfort? Nifty #Halloween #costume chart from @NPR pic.twitter.com/Xphlr15wOV — FATHOM+HATCH (@ppl_are_amazing) October 29, 2014 You can check out this interactive costume popularity chart here.
Adjudication and the Turing Test
Legal trials resemble the Turing Test in many ways. First, let’s restate the original version of the Turing Test and then compare this test to the process of adjudication.
Posted in Bayesian Reasoning, Games, Law, Philosophy, Probability
Tagged Adjudication, Turing Test
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Economic history of the modern world
Are we living in the best of all possible worlds? Check out this amazing visualization of two-hundred years’ worth of data in four minutes! Hat tip to WretchesandKings for the pointer.
Isaac Asimov on creativity
“Probably more inhibiting than anything else is a feeling of responsibility. The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas, but were paid to be teachers or patent clerks or petty officials, … Continue reading
Can you spot a fake $100 bill?
Frank Bourassa, the world’s most prolific counterfeiter, shows you how.
Turing Trials?
Is the current legal system broken or in need of repair? Instead of an endless number of motions, costly discovery, and randomly-selected jurors, why don’t we try a different method of resolving legal disputes, one based on the Turing Test in computer … Continue reading
Best Halloween costume
Can you guess what lovelyulie is for Halloween this year?
Windowless fuselage?
“What if we could enjoy the journey, not just the destination?” Courtesy of the Center for Process Innovation, via our friends at digg.
prior probability 