Human intelligence is remarkably correlated across domains. Do we mistakenly generalize this when assessing machines? 
The Right Energy at the Right Time
June 12, 2017During my ASI Fellowship I worked with Origami Energy, optimizing Demand Side Response programs for industrial energy usage. 
Driverless cars and the attention economy
June 8, 2017Driverless cars aren’t just a matter of convenience: they’re liberating hours of the day you could be buying things via Google! 
Seeing the science in startups
April 9, 2017If you squint a bit, building startups and doing science look kind of similar. 
Building a Burns bot #2: Making a Slackbot
March 8, 2017Here we take the Markov-chain based Burn’s Bot we created in the previous post and turn it into a living, breathing Slackbot to deliver Burns on demand. 
Building a Burns bot #1: Markov models for poetry generation
March 7, 2017How to generate synthetic poetry with the Markov models and a wee dram of whisky,