The Problem with Functional Fixedness in Creativity
Lots of creative problems can be solved when we see what is really there, instead of seeing what we see.
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Month: October 2019
First Impression of Apple’s Watch Series 5
A change in iOS infrastructure led me to give the Apple Watch a try.
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Recommendation: The Art of Manliness Podcast
An (so far) interesting podcast addressing a lot of different topics.
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Software change infos/version history based on user behavior
Changes in software are a frequent occurrence. They might be less sucky if information about them take the individual user behavior into account.
Image: Change log of DEVONthink.
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Image: Change log of DEVONthink.
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What’s in a name?
One of the easiest and ugliest tricks movements do is to give themselves positively sounding names, like …4future.
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Recommendation: Steven Pinker: “An Unnecessary Defense of Reason and a Necessary Defense of the University’s Role in Advancing It”
Steven Pinker's Keynote talk at the 2nd Heterodox Academy Annual Conference in June 2019 is well worth listening to.
Image: Half Hour of Heterodoxy Logo
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Image: Half Hour of Heterodoxy Logo
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Climate Change Activism
Some thoughts on Fridays4Future, Students4Future, and Scientist4Future -- and strikes at schools and universities.
Image: Pale Blue Dot.
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Image: Pale Blue Dot.
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Call of Cthulhu Character Sheet Passport (PDF)
Seems like I forgot to upload the passport-like character sheet I did create a while ago for a Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game session. Well, here it is.
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Why not treat a learning AI like you would treat a dog?
Who is responsible if you have an AI system (e.g., a robot) that learns after you buy it -- when it does something wrong. Perhaps treating such a system like you would treat a dog would be a way to deal with it.
Image: «Supergirl»
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Image: «Supergirl»
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False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German)
Slides (in German) about false dichotomies (a rhetorical fallacy), expanded to cover false moral dichotomies (going back to Haidt and referring Boghossian's and Lindsay's book «How to have impossible conversations»).
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