Cumulative Error
The police cleared him that same night. The accusation outlived their report by seven years. In the fall of 2019, Jon Goodwin moved in with a woman he'd known for…
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AI and the Reinvention of Homeschooling
For most of modern history, education has been organized around an institutional constraint: one teacher must teach many children at approximately the same pace, in the same place, during the…
Read →Blockchains and the Quantum Threat: Progress Since Bitcoin’s First Wake-Up Call
In 2018, researchers published a paper with a title that now seems remarkably prescient: “Committing to Quantum Resistance: A Slow Defence for Bitcoin Against a Fast Quantum Computing Attack.” The…
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