Friday, September 29, 2017

An exceedingly good point

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This is Joseph Mike the Mad Biologist:  Supply-side concerns, even as corporations are sitting on $2 trillion cash? Of course. Now it ...

Thoughts on a Ouija board

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As previously (and frequently) mentioned, I've been chipping away at a couple of essays about 21st century attitudes toward technology....
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Thursday, September 28, 2017

I suppose the short version is: "Never read any science coverage in New York magazine"

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Let's see, since we started occasionally checking in with the science desk of New York magazine, we've seen questionable often laps...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

It's like one of those "you provide the caption" cartoon contest except with blog posts and no prizes

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Eventually, I'll get around to using some of these as illustrations. If I don't post them, I'll probably forget about them. In t...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Fighting Gresham's law of journalism -- more "yes, it is just a god damn vending machine" blogging

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Just to review, a few days ago, there was a great deal of fanfare around an article by Elizabeth Segran from Fast Company magazine entitled:...
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Monday, September 25, 2017

It was an age of wondrous sights, flying machines, moving pictures, white blackberries…

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[Still laying groundwork for the big essay on the aftermath of the technology spikes of the 1890s (give or take a decade) and the postwar er...
Friday, September 22, 2017

Live by the hype, die by the hype

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Picking up where we left off last time: We've been talking about the content bubble (under various names) for going on five years ...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Arguments for a content bubble – – revisiting 2.

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We've been talking about the content bubble (under various names) for going on five years now, but we haven't mentioned it recently ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Bodega and the power of narrative

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As mentioned before, criticizing something for being overhyped invariably to some degree makes you part of the problem. No matter how pointe...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Scientific American's embarrassing example of the premise story, or "yes, it is just a god damn vending machine."

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When criticizing the overhyped for being overhyped, one always runs the risk of becoming part of the problem. That said, the badly conc...
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Monday, September 18, 2017

Even by Stephens' standards, this is bad advice.

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Sorry about not getting around to this piece earlier (so much stupid, so little time), but fortunately there's a timeless awfulness to B...
Friday, September 15, 2017

That's a disturbing premise

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I came across this while looking for Cohan clips for a previous post. The Phantom President The Phantom President tells ...

A few notes on IBM's Watson, the battle against cancer, and what's wrong with the state of 21st century innovation

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If you haven't read the Stat News article by Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitzon on IBM's project to revolutionize cancer treatment usin...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Equifax

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This is Joseph Via Kevin Drum , Michael Hilzik of the LA Times has a tough question : Three Equifax executives sold shares after the dis...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Magical Heuristics – – you knew there'd be a New York Magazine example eventually

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Earlier, we introduced the term magical heuristics (mental tools based on a fundamentally nonrational worldview that, nonetheless, often...