The “got it” rule for passing and AI chess.
My friend Matisse E. taught me a great trick: when you’re carrying something heavy and you are going to hand it over to someone else, you don’t let ...
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possible alternative reality games involving celebrities
you, the protagonist, are accidentally emailed the login / confirmation email intended for someone who is quite famous. you become his/her doppelganger. it̵...
The packing and unpacking game. Shakespeare, the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Communion.
I recently had to carry a few more things than I thought I could from one room to another. I stopped for a moment to think about it and devised a way to pack th...
Playing fetch.
One of our dogs loves to play fetch. The more the object he is fetching behaves like prey (a bouncing ball can change its trajectory in unexpected ways), the mo...
Does politics need to be entertaining? Yes.
Writing about Sarah Palin and more recently enjoying parodies of Glenn Beck I’ve been thinking on and off about political theater. Or rather, how difficul...
It’s the scripts, stupid.
There’s a presentation making the rounds lately that pokes fun at companies hoping to “capture the magic” of the Apple iPhone by making device...
who do you know?
Jonathan Haidt: “Our minds were not designed by evolution to discover the truth; they were designed to play social games.” From the same op-ed, Nicholas D. Kris...