It is a pleasant change to find a nonfiction book which is heavy on nonfiction and light on narrative.
The Physicist’s Rabbit Hole
A good storyteller, like a good engineer, needs to know what assumptions to make, and be aware of the assumptions which could undermine a project.
TENGs in Space
Years ago, I shared an article about triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), and I suggested I might follow up with more detail someday. Since then, I launched one on a rocket.
Information about Misinformation on Disinformation
While the terms are often conflated, misinformation and disinformation are not equivalent, and efforts both to study and address them should take care of that distinction.
New Non-Fiction Categories
There are a lot of books I read that are nonfiction, but that can mean anything from a biography to a mathematical treatise.
Dark Matters
I love considering the possibilities of an entire parallel reality of sorts consisting of the dark realm, with its own physics running alongside conventional physics but quite undetectable.
Tuning the Universe
Are we a mere accident, the chance result of comingling molecules in a primordial soup, brought into consciousness by a fluke of probability inevitable in an infinite universe? Are we a necessary extension of ever-increasing entropy, biological machines evolved to accelerate and further entropy’s conquest of order? Are we, rather, divinely created, the protagonists for which this setting was formed?
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Review
That the sun lies at the center of the solar system with the planets moving about it and the whole arrangement determined by gravity seems obvious to us today, but that is because we are surrounding by depictions of the solar system in that configuration.
Testing AI, Students, 3
The proposed Weizenbaum test is so lacking in structure, objectivity, rigor, and specificity as to not even define what the grading scale or reference answers would be.
Definition, Abstraction, and Language’s Limitation
Where I asserted that abstractions result in language’s limitations, my brother argued that language’s limitations cause its abstractions.
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