Pedro Domingos is a computer scientist at the University of Washington. I’ve known him for years as a guy who’d confidently explain to me why I was wrong about everything from physics to CS to […]
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This morning I was pondering one of the anti-Israel protesters’ favorite phrases—I promise, out of broad philosophical curiosity rather than just parochial concern for my extended family’s survival. “We’re on the right side of history. […]
Want some honesty about how I (mis)spend my time? These days, my daily routine includes reading all of the following: The comments on this blog (many of which I then answer) The Washington Post (“The […]
Back in May, I had the honor (nay, honour) to speak at HowTheLightGetsIn, an ideas festival held annually in Hay-on-Wye on the English/Welsh border. It was my first time in that part of the UK, […]
Q1: Who will you be voting for in November? A: Kamala Harris (and mainstream Democrats all down the ballot), of course. Q2: Of course? A: If the alternative is Trump, I would’ve voted for Biden’s […]
With yesterday’s My Prayer, for the first time I can remember in two decades of blogging, I put up a new post with the comments section completely turned off. I did so because I knew […]
It is the duty of good people, always and everywhere, to condemn, reject, and disavow the use of political violence. Even or especially when evildoers would celebrate the use of political violence against us. It […]
Perhaps like the poor current President of the United States, I can feel myself fading, my memory and verbal facility and attention to detail failing me, even while there’s so much left to do to […]
In Michael Sipser’s Introduction to the Theory of Computation textbook, he has one Platonically perfect homework exercise, so perfect that I can reconstruct it from memory despite not having opened the book for over a […]
The news these days feels apocalyptic to me—as if we’re living through, if not the last days of humanity, then surely the last days of liberal democracy on earth. All the more reason to ignore […]
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