What can you learn about a person from what music they like? Can you expect a difference in predisposition between those who prefer upbeat music versus those who like melancholic music? Do people with a taste for complex music have better cognitive skills, or is it a learned taste that results from devoting more timeContinue reading “Music cognition: probing the mind with music”
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The day when the singularity came
A philosophical sci-fi essay about what to do with your life using some new data, with a reading list for rainy Sunday afternoons It was the 27th January 2016 when the penny finally dropped. It was reported that in October 2015, Google’s artificial intelligence program had beaten the European champion of the board game Go.1Continue reading “The day when the singularity came”
The moat approach to scientific authority — Beware of the guru!
Warren Buffett, perhaps the greatest investor of all times, prefers his holdings to have what he calls a `moat’; some form of protection that sets a business apart from the competition, similarly to how a moat protects a castle from intrusion.1 The economic moat should function by making it impossible for rivals and new entrantsContinue reading “The moat approach to scientific authority — Beware of the guru!”
How Facebook could make money by letting users sell their friends
I originally wrote the entry as an online article and it ended up being quite long. So I decided to start with an extra summary to present the core idea briefly. Well, it made the whole thing that much longer. Summary Advertising connects demand with supply: it connects people who have money to spend toContinue reading “How Facebook could make money by letting users sell their friends”
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