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An Introduction To Event Theory An Introduction To Event Theory

Digging deeper into YouTubes view count discrepancy Digging deeper into YouTube’s view count discrepancy For a great many tech YouTube channels, views have been markedly down from desktop (“computer”) users since August 10th (or so). This month-long event has kicked up some dust—enough that two British YouTubers,

Phenomenology and the impossibility of experience design This is Part 1 in an ongoing series on philosophy, design and cognitive science. You can also check out the reading list behind this series. Let’s consider a simple scenario involving two completely different people using the exact same banking app on identical iPhones. The first person is walking down a

Philosophy for Designers 1 Phenomenology and the impossibility of experience design This is Part 1 in an ongoing series on philosophy, design and cognitive science. You can also check out the reading list behind this series. Let’s consider a simple scenario involving two completely different people using the exact same banking app on identical iPhones. The first person is walking down a

CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space These are CubeSats. Satellites that are going to space—or at least, the ones I have here are prototypes. But these have one thing in common: they’re all powered by either a Raspberry

Quantum Information Supremacy I’m thrilled that our paper entitled Demonstrating an unconditional separation between quantum and classical information resources, based on a collaboration between UT Austin and Quantinuum, is finally up on the arXiv. I’m equally thrilled that my coauthor and former PhD student William Kretschmer — who led the theory for this

My review of Claudes new Code Interpreter released under a very confusing name

Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5 Python and Pyodide

YouTube views are down dont panic YouTube views are down (don’t panic) September 15 update: @YouTubeInsider confirmed that the issue is related to viewers who have adblockers enabled—YouTube’s been in an arms race with ad blocking tools, and the fallout is a substantial

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT aka Research Goblin is shockingly good at search