Rabbit Hole – Who’s Being Naive, Kay? Also, DARPA, Ribbon Farm, and Unknown Knowns
ET contributor Neville Crawley is back from time well spent at an amazing library, with thoughts on no-end state architecture, marketing alpha, DOD AI…
Category: Rabbit Hole
Rabbit Hole: Mathematical Toys, Moral Injuries, and Odes to the Hack
Neville's favorite links from recent months, including an interview with a collector of mathematical toys and an ode to the hack.
The ET Interviews: Anti-Authoritarian Technology
Fresh thoughts on the intersection of technology, freedom and decentralization.
ET's Neville Crawley interviews Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer…
Take Back Your Thinking
In the Common Knowledge World, we lose the ability to distinguish between what we think and what we think we think. It's Fiat Thought, and here's how …
What is it, really?
The #1 question investors ought to ask of a financial services company trying to sell them something is: “What is it, really?” If you don’t know…
Massively Fast Compute, AI Algorithms and Blockchain Development (by Silly Rabbit)
I’m limiting this week’s Rabbit Hole to three links which represent the rapid tick-tock of the trifecta of massively fast compute, AI algorithms …
Information Bottlenecks, Fake News and Boredom (by Silly Rabbit)
A new idea called the “information bottleneck” is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms — and …
Youth, Immutable Content, and the Secondhand Scoop (by Silly Rabbit)
This week’s Rabbit Hole column is more thematic with recent links that I found interesting around the topic of ‘news,’ on which Ben wrote the de…
A Taxonomy of Humans, Evolution and Aliens (by Silly Rabbit)
Leonid Moroz has spent two decades trying to wrap his head around a mind-boggling idea: even as scientists start to look for alien life in other plane…
Revenge of the Humans, Emojis & Mushrooms (by Silly Rabbit)
Portfolio Manager — Of all the roles this is where I think things really need to change in terms of who sits in this seat. It can no longer be hedg…
Data Access Battles, Creative Thinking & Full Script AI (by Silly Rabbit)
A couple of weeks back I shared a link to the story of ImageNet and the importance of data to developing algorithms. Ars Technica reports on two…
AI BS Detectors & the Origins of Life (by Silly Rabbit)
Confidence levels for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Claude Berrou on turbo codes and informational neuroscience, and thermodynamics in far-from-…
Programmable Money & Auto Public Offerings (by Silly Rabbit)
Programmable money, ImageNet: the data that changed AI research, Auto Public Offerings and the paradox of historical knowledge.
Algorithmic Complexes, Alpha Male Brains, and Winnie the Pooh (by Silly Rabbit)
Massively complex complexes of algorithms, AI vs. human performance, the Alpha male brain switch and explaining vs. understanding.
One Model to Learn Them All and AI Is/Isn’t Taking Over the World (by Silly Rabbit)
One model to learn them all, semantic scholars, AI is/isn't taking over the world, and autonomous learning investment strategies.
AI & Video Games, Tricky Chatbots and More… (by Silly Rabbit)
AI and video games, tricky chatbots, the quantum age has officially arrived, and your high dimensional brain.
Long Short-Term Memory, Algorithms for Social Justice, and External Cognition (by Silly Rabbit)
DARPA funds a graph analytics processor, exploring long short-term memory networks, auditing black box predictive models, fast iteration and language …
The Summer Reading List (by Jeremy Radcliffe)
In which Jeremy Radcliffe recommends Bob Lefsetz, Scott Galloway, Scott Belsky,Tim Urban and the gang at Hoisington.
Quantum Supremacy, Correlating Unemployment, and Buddhists with Attitude (by Silly Rabbit)
What web searches correlate to unemployment, verbal and nonverbal behaviors, and methodologies with a fragility problem.