“look no further than Peter A. Lawrence’s developmental biology text The Making of a Fly, which in April 2011 was selling for $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping) on Amazon’s third-party marketplace. How and why had this—admittedly respected—book reached a sale price… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“To see what happens in the real world when an information cascade takes over, and the bidders have almost nothing but one another’s behavior to estimate an item’s value, look no further than Peter A. Lawrence’s developmental biology text The… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Though all Christians start a wedding invitation by solemnly declaring their marriage is due to special Divine arrangement, I, as a philosopher, would like… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“It’s fairly intuitive that never exploring is no way to live. But it’s also worth mentioning that never exploiting can be every bit as… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“We asked Shoup if his research allows him to optimize his own commute, through the Los Angeles traffic to his office at UCLA. Does… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“look no further than Peter A. Lawrence’s developmental biology text The Making of a Fly, which in April 2011 was selling for $23,698,655.93 (plus… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Though time management seems a problem as old as time itself, the science of scheduling began in the machine shops of the industrial revolution.… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. —JOHN STUART MILL” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“When our expectations are uncertain and the data are noisy, the best bet is to paint with a broad brush” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Computer scientists have been working on finding this balance for more than fifty years. They even have a name for it: the explore/exploit tradeoff.” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“We go through digital life, in the twenty-first century, with our guards up. All communication is a Turing test. All communication is suspect.” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“exploration is gathering information, and exploitation is using the information” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
