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<![CDATA[ Anatomy of a Conversation ]]>
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<![CDATA[ We’re living in a world that’s changing how we see and interact with everything around us. ]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Attention Economy ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Attention Economy ]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Building AI for Compliance Detection in Psychiatry ]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ The result of a supernatural obsession. ]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Forget About Memoization! ]]>
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<![CDATA[ React Compiler ]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Growth, pain, or something... ]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Here and there ]]>
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<![CDATA[ I would be feeling a lot less regret right now if I dropped the post in here years ago. ]]>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Home, pressure, and waves for ideas ]]>
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<![CDATA[ In three words, I can sum up everything about life It goes on. ]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ How to Do Nothing ]]>
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<![CDATA[ How to Do Nothing ]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Is Apple a Monopoly? ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Tomorrow, Apple’s new product, the Apple Watch, will be launched worldwide. ]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Marc is Wrong ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Heaven is high and the emperor is far away ]]>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Simplifying by choosing, simplifying by writing… ]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Navigating Liminal Interfaces ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Transitional zones where one is on the threshold between two states ]]>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Oliver Sacks ]]>
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<![CDATA[ There will be no one like us when we are gone. ]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ On Bullshit ]]>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ I'm chasing the sun, and I'm running from the night. ]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Broken Tools: PWAs were almost being sunset ]]>
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<![CDATA[ The Earth is a beautiful blue sphere, with endless oceans and continents bathed in its waters. ]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Sometimes, being first matters as much as being perfect. ]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Runway, Houses, City, Clouds ]]>
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<![CDATA[ But the plane is losing altitude... ]]>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Stop Reading the News ]]>
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<![CDATA[ The news is everywhere. ]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ It's early 2015. ]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Thoughts on Dune II ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind. ]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ 0 (zero) is a number representing an empty quantity. ]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ What’s happening here? ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Blog update. ]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ You and Your Research ]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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