observations
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A First Step Into a Larger World
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Was the $100 Laptop Wrong, or Just 20 Years Early?
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"No AI. No AI." (Scene: 19:40)
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Dan Quinn Has No Underwriter
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Want to Go Eat Some Tacos? ¡Claro Que Sí!
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Fruitopia: Human Control Is Not a Governance Model
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Olympia Was More Than a Super Bowl
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I Found My Name in macOS
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How I Use AI to Write This Blog
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It's Mine & It's Wrong
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AI ♥ AI
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What a Variation Keeps
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Let Beethoven Be a Beginning
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Blitzkrieg: b. 1940, d. 2026
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Feynman Was Right About the Paths
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AI Can’t Read Teddy Roosevelt’s Letters
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Galileo Didn't Have to Put Up With This
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The Edge of a Second
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Context Engineering Is Governance at Inference Time
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The Fountain That Talked Back
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Why Did Delphi Stop at Six Columns?
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Will Robots Finally Make Food Delivery Cheap?
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Maybe There Is Something Inside the Great Pyramid?
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Troy: The Musical? The Lost Song of Memnon
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Why Colleges Should Stop Choosing Peers by Habit
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The Weird Ideas Are Becoming Cheap Enough to Test
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How Pulsars Turned the Milky Way into a Gravitational Wave Detector
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The Renaissance Vulture Thinks Like Leonardo
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Who Deserved Achilles' Armor?
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When the Greeks Ignored Homer: The Mystery of Achilles' Shield
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Governing AI We Can Trust: I Graduated!
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Colonel Elmer?!
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A Robotic Summer: Pascal Completes UMD’s Rigorous SPARC Program
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Casey Has A Heart
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Why Are the Greek Heroes Laughing?
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Oh God, Please Say It Ain't So: Elon Musk Just Took On My Homer Project
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Can a Computer Learn 2,300 Years of Visual Poetry?
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Animating Homer: Teaching AI the Visual Language of Ancient Greece
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The Founder AI Forgot
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The Food Wasn't That Bad
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The Bird Drowned
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When Does a New Age Begin?
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Not One Coach Chose Erling Haaland at Fourteen
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Matt Damon's Tattoos Didn't Belong on Odysseus
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The Forgotten Scholar Who Brought the Zodiac to Greece
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What Christopher Nolan Didn't Have Time to Tell You About the Trojan War
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Why Benjamin Franklin Should Be the Next Face on Mount Rushmore
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AGDC Inc.: Building Trapeze 2.0
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The Age of Membership
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Thought Experiments About Cognition
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Lessons from Silk: What Makes a Technology Scalable?
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Can CRS Be Recreated in the Age of AI?
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It Takes One to Know One
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Why Are the World's Most Advanced Chips Being Made in a Desert?
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I Gave ChatGPT a Body. The Cost of Robotics Is Collapsing.
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What Do Octopuses and Dogs Have in Common?
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How Much Older Than Homer Are Homer's Stories?
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I Love Dirty Dr. Pepper. McDonald's Loves It Too.
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Grow or Shrink?
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Vibe Coding: The Great Trapeze Experiment
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The Decision Tree of Patience
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I Replicated a Famous Political Psychology Experiment. The AI Did Better Than Humans.
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Create a group
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The Bumblebee Challenge to Artificial Intelligence
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Love Island's Formula + AI = Fruit Love Island
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What Is AI For? A Question as Old as Writing
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One Year Later: What Comes Next?
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The Undersea Aircraft Carrier
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24 August AD 79?
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Does AI Belong to the Chain of Life or Is It an Artifact?
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42 Days Later: From Instability to Bargaining
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The Book of Kells and Machine Learning
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Before Greek Fire
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Is Backrooms a Gaussian Splatting Environment?
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The Romantic Return of the Liberal Arts in the AI Economy
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The Rising Cost of Global Talent
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D.A.R.Y.L. and the Slow Construction of Machine Childhood
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Face/Off and the Structure of Identity
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St. John’s College Preserved How to Think in the AI Era
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The Terminator Got One Thing Right
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The Darker Side of AI Speed Cameras
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Why M3GAN Worked and Child’s Play (2019) Did Not
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Gerrymandering Topology, Artificial Intelligence, and the Rise of Technocratic Democracy
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War of Attrition vs. Thucydides Trap: Different Games, Different Dangers
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I Don't Know.
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AI Passed the Turing Test but Failed the Watch Test
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Is That a Brain? What Comes After GPUs
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The Final Spreadsheet
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Happy Star Wars Day: Revelation vs Explanation
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May Day: The Final Move in a Strategic Admissions System
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Disneyland and the Assembly Line
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Let’s Do Fringe! Data and the Global Consciousness Project
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The impact of National Science Board actions on the future of U.S. basic research
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“It Can Only Be Attributable to Human Error”
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42 Days to Instability: A Nash Equilibrium in the Iran Standoff
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What Are the Chances of Getting a Sundae in Berlin
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Negotiating Without Experts on the Eve of War
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The Price You See May Not Be the Price I See
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You Seem Like Someone Who Should Pay More: When Prices Become Personal
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It Begins with a Spreadsheet
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Silent by Design: Why an AI Companion Cannot Be a Friend
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Where Did Perilous Come From?
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Revolutions Begin in the Margins
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Do Colleges Need Sports to Survive?
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Hard to Reform a System That Admits Only 4%
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Does AI Need "Identity"?
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Cat Distribution System
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Roadmaps and Budgets: Staying on Mission Under Constraint
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Did We Land on the Moon?
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When Power Gathers, It Breaks
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A Big Bet That Paid Off: Ben-Hur and Its 11 Oscars
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Free Software, Expensive Discipline: Why MLflow Is Not Enough
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Why Sora Failed and Ben Affleck Didn’t
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"Hey Siri," No Cloud Required
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A Musical Joke
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The Second Sphinx Problem
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Not Just Money: Why Athens Carved Music into Its Treasury
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Universities Abroad and the Boundaries of Conflict
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Oh, the Humanity: Can You Tell Who Is Human?
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Say Yes: AI That Agrees With You Is Not Helping You
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Higher Education’s Digital Transformation Is Stalling
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Inside Knowledge Before the News
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The Singularity as a Systems Problem, Not a Problem of Scale
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The Shroud of Turin Was Questioned From the Start
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The Fly Inside the Machine: When Learning Stops and Being Begins
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Eyes Without a Face
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The Tillyverse Lives in the Uncanny Valley
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Association Is Not Causation: AI Use and Depression
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A Knight’s Ordeal at St. Patrick’s Purgatory
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Why Is the Ancient Aliens Idea Both Wrong and Wonderful?
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When Logic Became a Graphic Novel
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From Agnes-With Love, 2026
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What Is the Magic Sphere in the Acropolis Museum?
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Cosmic Harmony
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What Is a Mystic? Visions and the Structure of Reality
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The Pythagorean Echo in Hildegard’s Unheard Music
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Jackson Pollock and the Problem of AI Art
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Hildegard of Bingen
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Music at the Edge of the Atomic Age
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The Comfort of High Percentages
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What Would Cassandra Think of Kalshi?
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Punch Cards Are for Counting Votes
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It Was Never Whole
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What Kenny Loggins Taught Me About Data Sufficiency
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The Triumph of ADM
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Kenni-e Loggins
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Congress Moves to Preserve Indirect Costs
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Play First, Podium Later
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“You Are So Romantic, Dracula”: Valentine’s Day, 1931