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the annoying black box cognitive load and its discontent

31.10.2025 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

are we having fear yet? the cerebral insult theory of financial crises

30.10.2025 12:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

notes on the industrialisation of decision making worrying away at an old subject

24.10.2025 14:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oscillations and arguments Beer tasting notes, episode 4

22.10.2025 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

good news about snails building the solution factory

17.10.2025 10:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

fun in the mausoleum directors cuts & bits & pieces

15.10.2025 12:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

secrets of sydn my great unpublished book

10.10.2025 15:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

canaries and islands the indicator species in the system

08.10.2025 14:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

SOPPPPs and SLAPPs the importance of giving something a name

03.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the stakes and the odds, reconsidered judicial review and its discontents

01.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the greatest intellects of history Beer tasting notes, part 3

26.09.2025 13:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

middle management is what the other guy does climbing the ladder of discomfort

24.09.2025 13:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

subtle and unknowable but quite important exercises in practical epistemology

19.09.2025 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

analysing the explosions reality, and its occasional legal implications

17.09.2025 12:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

you can't take it back in a disclaimer thoughts on the state of opinion research

12.09.2025 13:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

songs my portfolio manager taught me (part 6) another miscellany

10.09.2025 13:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

respect for the problem more wisdom from Will

05.09.2025 14:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the brompton-ness of it all process knowledge and such like

03.09.2025 14:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

reject premise that safe return could be guaranteed information environments are made, not found

27.08.2025 13:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the control surface and its crinkliness a placeholder for future posts

22.08.2025 15:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

stupid games, stupid prizes, slight returns performativity becomes pathological

20.08.2025 14:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

pet sounds and bagels semi related topics for summer

14.08.2025 15:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

kelly's AI heroes my favourite test question for chatbots

10.08.2025 15:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the network of the beast neutral spaces, considered

31.07.2025 14:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

all the right words, but not necessarily in the right order a glossary of sorts, part 2

23.07.2025 11:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

toward a theory of infrastructure brain this is why we don't want nice things

16.07.2025 14:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

offshoring the ick guest post by Darren Sharma

14.07.2025 13:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the pendulum might be the best we can do oscillation of the nation

10.07.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

troubles come in legions asking silly questions, getting policy answers

02.07.2025 13:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

black boxes and smoky rooms problematic communications, part 2

25.06.2025 12:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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