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2026 54

  1. Gretchen Walsh is the world's best athlete and it's not even close
  2. A simulation tool to explore the impact of AI on different markets
  3. Of Gardens and Love
  4. The End Times Pill
  5. Graduation Night
  6. Nighttime Games
  7. Harry and the Three Witches
  8. Relative superintelligence and competitive dynamics: between collapse, progress, and breakthroughs
  9. Last Tea with Aunt Julia
  10. The Unquiet
  11. The Untime Machine
  12. First Language
  13. The Minute
  14. On Multiplicity / Sobre la Multiplicidad
  15. Airborne Secrets
  16. Centripetal
  17. Black Zone Dreams
  18. Inheritance
  19. Sede Vacante
  20. Boundary Point
  21. The Elsinore Fugue
  22. Burial Place
  23. The Intercalary Gambit
  24. If Old Acquaintance Be Forgot
  25. Longevity tech: in a bad place, with good options
  26. The Nostradamus Fixpoint
  27. Graveyard
  28. My Soul to Keep
  29. Spectral
  30. Odds and Ends
  31. Pov
  32. Industrial Secrets
  33. Ablative
  34. The Patron Saint of Clues
  35. Already Disruptive: Journalism is a high-margin research technology, not a zero-margin content mill
  36. The Quiet Choir
  37. The Emergent Artifact 12 Heist
  38. Making Investing Fit for a Sci-Fi World
  39. The Net Sum of Love
  40. Children Insurance
  41. Interference Pattern
  42. The Mathematics of Change
  43. Runaway Geodesics
  44. The Human Bottleneck
  45. Citadel
  46. Acts of War
  47. Hacking the Hackathon
  48. Seaside Whispers
  49. Against Developer Productivity
  50. Breaking the Smart City Out of its Narcissism
  51. The Final Summation
  52. Affinity
  53. The Post-AI Organization
  54. [2026-01-03] The ECHELON Lacuna [Fiction]

2025 83

  1. [2025-12-27] Accretion [Fiction]
  2. [2025-12-20] The Burning Church [Fiction]
  3. [2025-12-15] Invisible Art [Fiction]
  4. [2025-12-10] The Book of All Names (repost) [Fiction]
  5. [2025-12-07] After the Bubble, the Dream Gap
  6. [2025-12-07] Progression [Fiction]
  7. [2025-11-30] Ever-fixed [Fiction]
  8. [2025-11-27] The file on your local drive is the ultimate integration API
  9. [2025-11-23] Collateral Dreams [Fiction]
  10. [2025-11-13] Deeper than the Skin [Fiction]
  11. [2025-11-07] Overtime Prophets [Fiction]
  12. [2025-11-06] Rising on arXiv - 2025-10-31: Altermagnets, Einstein Probe, Cosmic noon [RisingOnArXiv]
  13. [2025-11-01] The Red Fleet [Fiction]
  14. [2025-10-25] Rising on arXiv - 2025-10-24: Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, Optical interconnects, Abelian anyons [RisingOnArXiv]
  15. [2025-10-25] Works of the Flesh [Fiction]
  16. [2025-10-18] Recapitulations [Fiction]
  17. [2025-10-18] Rising on arXiv - 2025-10-17: High Bandwidth Memory, Causal attribution, Primordial non-Gaussianities [RisingOnArXiv]
  18. [2025-10-12] Rising on arXiv - 2025-10-10: Lindbladians, ZKPs, Algonauts 2025 Challenge [RisingOnArXiv]
  19. [2025-10-11] Neonatal [Fiction]
  20. [2025-10-06] Rising on arXiv - 2025-10-05: ICCV 2025, Fermion sign problem, Genuine multipartite entanglement [RisingOnArXiv]
  21. [2025-09-28] Technology Transfer [Fiction]
  22. [2025-09-27] Rising on arXiv - 2025-09-26: Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Uhlmann's Theorem, uMLIPs [RisingOnArXiv]
  23. [2025-09-21] Rising on arXiv - 2025-09-19: GW231123, Optical anisotropy, Quantum-enhanced sensing [RisingOnArXiv]
  24. [2025-09-21] The Passage [Fiction]
  25. [2025-09-13] Rising on arXiv - 2025-09-12: Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, Large-scale magnetic field, FRW Universe [RisingOnArXiv]
  26. [2025-09-12] The Test [Fiction]
  27. [2025-09-08] Hades [Fiction]
  28. [2025-09-06] Rising on arXiv - 2025-09-05: 3I/ATLAS, Extensive air showers, Secrecy rate [RisingOnArXiv]
  29. [2025-08-30] Electric Prayer [Fiction]
  30. [2025-08-30] Rising on arXiv - 2025-08-29: IceTop, Habitable Worlds Observatory, Phase-field models [RisingOnArXiv]
  31. [2025-08-24] Crimson Lines on a Chart [Fiction]
  32. [2025-08-24] Rising on arXiv - 2025-08-22: Performance Estimation Problem, Surgical decision-making, Preoperative planning [RisingOnArXiv]
  33. [2025-08-17] Rising on arXiv - 2025-08-17: Ferrons, Tunable platform, Simple closed curves [RisingOnArXiv]
  34. [2025-08-15] Silence Bought and Sold [Fiction]
  35. [2025-08-09] Rising on arXiv - 2025-08-08: DESI DR2, Sub-millimeter accuracy, Inflationary dynamics [RisingOnArXiv]
  36. [2025-08-08] Notes After the Incident [Fiction]
  37. [2025-08-03] Emotional Warfare [Fiction]
  38. [2025-08-03] Rising on arXiv - 2025-08-01: Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN), Tetrablock, Hybrid metric-Palatini gravity [RisingOnArXiv]
  39. [2025-07-27] Morning Prayers [Fiction]
  40. [2025-07-27] Rising on arXiv - 2025-07-25: Triangle counting, Split conformal prediction, Seyfert galaxy [RisingOnArXiv]
  41. [2025-07-24] Beyond LLMs: Regulatory risks and potential of significantly advanced AI
  42. [2025-07-22] The Stream [Fiction]
  43. [2025-07-20] Rising on arXiv - 2025-07-18: principled foundation, quasiparticle picture, content diversity [RisingOnArXiv]
  44. [2025-07-18] The Snap [Fiction]
  45. [2025-07-14] Rising on arXiv - 2025-07-11: Multi-target tracking, Spatial audio, Autoregressive modeling [RisingOnArXiv]
  46. [2025-07-03] Time, summarized
  47. [2025-06-29] The Fallen [Fiction]
  48. [2025-06-28] Rising on arXiv - 2025-06-27: RTL generation, Contextual metadata, MAGE [RisingOnArXiv]
  49. [2025-06-19] Rising on arXiv - 2025-06-13: Flow prediction, Institutional design, Memory retrieval [RisingOnArXiv]
  50. [2025-06-19] Singularity City Revelations [Fiction]
  51. [2025-06-14] Ghost Girl [Fiction]
  52. [2025-06-09] Rising on arXiv - 2025-06-06: MathVision, Weighted projective space, Popularity bias [RisingOnArXiv]
  53. [2025-06-08] Musica Universalis [Fiction]
  54. [2025-06-02] Rising on arXiv - 2025-05-30: Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, Large Deviation Properties, Mu-SHROOM, Open-Source Solver, Humanoid Locomotion, Kling, GUI Agents, Textual Semantics, . Spatial Reasoning [RisingOnArXiv]
  55. [2025-06-01] A Surfeit of Beauty [Fiction]
  56. [2025-05-28] Rising on arXiv - 2025-05-26: GRPO, Large Reasoning Models, DeepSeek-R1, Verifiable rewards, Small Language Models, SemEval-2025 task, Intermediate reasoning steps, Interpretability, DESI, . Vietnamese [RisingOnArXiv]
  57. [2025-05-28] Rising on arXiv - a short explainer [RisingOnArXiv]
  58. [2025-05-23] Farewell [Fiction]
  59. [2025-05-16] Nostalgia [Fiction]
  60. [2025-05-12] The Warrior's Sacrifice [Fiction]
  61. [2025-05-08] Sloppy choices: the why and then-what of institutional LLM adoption
  62. [2025-05-04] The Varieties of Religious Expectation [Fiction]
  63. [2025-04-25] Market Signals [Fiction]
  64. [2025-04-21] Quick notes on the danger of LLM benchmarks
  65. [2025-04-17] Ledger of Tomorrows [Fiction]
  66. [2025-04-14] Almost entirely an outline: The generative AI domain expertise drain and the next divergence
  67. [2025-04-12] Bluesky Summary 2025-04-04 - 2025-04-12 [Bluesky]
  68. [2025-04-03] Bluesky Summary 2025-03-31 - 2025-04-03 [Bluesky]
  69. [2025-03-30] Rebuilding your organization's cognition for the ongoing economic crisis
  70. [2025-03-30] Bluesky Summary 2025-03-27 - 2025-03-30 [Bluesky]
  71. [2025-03-26] Bluesky Summary 2025-03-26 - 2025-03-26 [Bluesky]
  72. [2025-03-22] Convergence [Fiction]
  73. [2025-03-15] Gödel's Law [Fiction]
  74. [2025-03-10] The Death Gig [Fiction]
  75. [2025-02-23] Delivery System [Fiction]
  76. [2025-02-17] Nightmare Blueprints [Fiction]
  77. [2025-02-08] On Silence [Fiction]
  78. [2025-02-01] Mandelbrot City Fragment [Fiction]
  79. [2025-01-28] Evidence of a Crime [Fiction]
  80. [2025-01-27] Pastoral [Fiction]
  81. [2025-01-20] Confession [Fiction]
  82. [2025-01-12] Scattershot Prayer [Fiction]
  83. [2025-01-05] Place Settings [Fiction]

2024 90

  1. [2024-12-30] The Aeneas Protocol [Fiction]
  2. [2024-12-22] Whispers [Fiction]
  3. [2024-12-08] The Library [Fiction]
  4. [2024-11-30] The Sisters of Eternal Winter [Fiction]
  5. [2024-11-23] Teachable Moment [Fiction]
  6. [2024-11-18] The Fourier Protocol [Fiction]
  7. [2024-11-14] Quick link: Another health crisis we aren't preparing for
  8. [2024-11-10] Getaway [Fiction]
  9. [2024-11-04] Apocalyptic Tableau [Fiction]
  10. [2024-10-27] Quick link: The variable is not the thing
  11. [2024-10-26] Things Kept [Fiction]
  12. [2024-10-22] Quick link: It's not tokens all the way down
  13. [2024-10-21] Quick link: The outlook is: Still Not Great
  14. [2024-10-19] The Nine Trillion Parameters of God [Fiction]
  15. [2024-10-14] The Apple [Fiction]
  16. [2024-10-10] Quick link: Using bots to bypass bots that will hire people...
  17. [2024-10-09] Automate with Care
  18. [2024-10-06] Genius [Fiction]
  19. [2024-10-01] Notas para una historia parcial de los generadores / Notes for a partial history of generators [Borgesiana]
  20. [2024-09-28] A Human Universe [Fiction]
  21. [2024-09-22] Change of Heart [Fiction]
  22. [2024-09-13] Fallen [Fiction]
  23. [2024-09-08] How to reverse-engineer your organization for fun and profit
  24. [2024-09-08] Mary of the Cold [Fiction]
  25. [2024-09-02] A Man of His Word [Fiction]
  26. [2024-08-26] Narrative Framing [Fiction]
  27. [2024-08-21] Quick link: How true industrial AI will look like
  28. [2024-08-18] A Murder of Crows [Fiction]
  29. [2024-08-12] A short note on Nvidia's strategic luck and the option value of being the best
  30. [2024-08-09] Targeted [Fiction]
  31. [2024-08-05] A very short note: AI isn't $AI - don't sweat the market too much
  32. [2024-08-05] Quick link: The most interesting medal was won in the other Olympics
  33. [2024-08-04] AI Alignment [Fiction]
  34. [2024-07-30] On those who listen to silence [Fiction]
  35. [2024-07-29] Quick link: What moves the movers?
  36. [2024-07-29] The predictable disaster of "predicting" crime
  37. [2024-07-22] Quick link: Lovecraftian data sets
  38. [2024-07-21] Frontier Work [Fiction]
  39. [2024-07-17] Fixing biases in decision-making won't get you far enough
  40. [2024-07-17] The Kids Aren't Alright (but that doesn't mean they aren't correct)
  41. [2024-07-14] The Metaphysics of the Fly [Fiction]
  42. [2024-07-08] "Transference" [Fiction]
  43. [2024-07-02] Q&A [Fiction]
  44. [2024-06-26] Quick link: Maybe the declining gender gap isn't about gender
  45. [2024-06-23] The Train [Fiction]
  46. [2024-06-22] The quality of generative AI is only half the story
  47. [2024-06-16] A quick note on the longevity market for the rich
  48. [2024-06-15] Breakfast Time [Fiction]
  49. [2024-06-14] Three ways to sabotage a company using AI
  50. [2024-06-06] Money is the Utility Function: Thinking about Return on AI
  51. [2024-06-06] Paying for your own commodification
  52. [2024-06-03] On the Soul's Strength [Fiction]
  53. [2024-06-02] Uniform [Fiction]
  54. [2024-05-25] The Pygmalion Maneuver [Fiction]
  55. [2024-05-20] Eternal [Fiction]
  56. [2024-05-11] Employee Survey [Fiction]
  57. [2024-05-05] Into the Waveless Sea [Fiction]
  58. [2024-05-04] LLMs are infrastructure - but so are some of their outputs!
  59. [2024-04-29] You're underreacting to climate change
  60. [2024-04-26] Further Varieties of Religious Experience [Fiction]
  61. [2024-04-14] Quick link: It turns out having a better opponent does help you get better
  62. [2024-04-14] The Siege [Fiction]
  63. [2024-04-13] How Copilot will lead to hiring more developers, not less
  64. [2024-04-12] All-in Ante [Fiction]
  65. [2024-04-06] AI and the Complexity of Loss
  66. [2024-03-30] The Spirit [Fiction]
  67. [2024-03-24] A Private Deal [Fiction]
  68. [2024-03-23] Quick link: A mathematician on AI for mathematicians
  69. [2024-03-22] What AI designers can learn from Dracula
  70. [2024-03-16] Auto-summarized Entries from a Personal Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence in Psychological #Self-Care [Fiction]
  71. [2024-03-15] Quick Link: "The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits"
  72. [2024-03-09] Whispered Dreams [Fiction]
  73. [2024-03-04] A Hole in the World [Fiction]
  74. [2024-02-25] In the waiting room at Avalon [Fiction]
  75. [2024-02-22] The Scaffolding [Fiction]
  76. [2024-02-21] After Trolls, Elves. Or not.
  77. [2024-02-16] How to use AI to design efficient teams
  78. [2024-02-10] The Garden of Unsilvered Mirrors [Fiction]
  79. [2024-02-06] Stochastic [Fiction]
  80. [2024-02-05] Quick link: AI assisting journalists, but to do what?
  81. [2024-02-03] The AI role almost nobody talks about
  82. [2024-02-02] Organizational hollowing and the lethal 80% AI
  83. [2024-01-30] Ask not what AI engineering can do for aesthetics, but what aesthetics can do for AI engineering
  84. [2024-01-30] New short story: "Sanity Economics" [Fiction]
  85. [2024-01-21] New short story: "Generation Gap" [Fiction]
  86. [2024-01-18] Quick link: BREAKING NEWS: Cheap rewrites crowd out expensive research
  87. [2024-01-15] The most useful phrase about AI you will read this month
  88. [2024-01-13] New short story: "When he himself might his quietus make" [Fiction]
  89. [2024-01-11] The goal of data analysis is to kill time
  90. [2024-01-06] New short story: "The Traveler and the Goddess" [Fiction]

2023 104

  1. [2023-12-31] New short story: "Elective" [Fiction]
  2. [2023-12-24] New short story: "The Secret Conclave of 2039" [Fiction]
  3. [2023-12-20] New short story: "A Voice in the Crowd" [Fiction]
  4. [2023-12-18] Quick link: Manufacturing delaborization and development strategy (with notes on Argentina)
  5. [2023-12-12] New short story: "River Crossings" [Fiction]
  6. [2023-12-03] New short story: "The Festivals of Winter" [Fiction]
  7. [2023-11-27] Informal paper: "Technology portfolio modeling, generative AI, and optimal fund design"
  8. [2023-11-25] Quick link: Burning the world and/or USD 400 billion a year
  9. [2023-11-25] New short story: "Spoils of War" [Fiction]
  10. [2023-11-23] The one AI-related existential risk I'm worried about
  11. pdf file
  12. [2023-11-22] Not a story but fifty-three: "Viral Fixpoint - The Adversarial Metanoia archives (2019-2020)" [Fiction]
  13. [2023-11-18] New short story: "Revelation Engineering" [Fiction]
  14. [2023-11-17] Quick link: When it comes to causal knowledge, every little bit (of lowered entropy) helps
  15. [2023-11-12] And now for something different: architecture and the Metaverse
  16. [2023-11-12] New short story: "Offerings" [Fiction]
  17. [2023-11-10] Quick link: First data points on the impact of ChatGPT on employment
  18. [2023-11-08] Using protein language models to accelerate their artificial evolution works; the interesting part is why.
  19. [2023-11-06] Quick link: Knowing what your algorithm thinks it knows
  20. [2023-11-05] AI hiring filters don't optimize what you think they do
  21. [2023-11-05] New short story: "Truth-seeking Sessions" [Fiction]
  22. [2023-10-30] New short story: "Deep Inside the Glitch Forest" [Fiction]
  23. [2023-10-29] Quick link: embarrassingly elegant AI+expert optimization teams
  24. [2023-10-29] The expertise architecture of journalism, and how to use AI to kill it faster
  25. [2023-10-22] New short story: "Of Children and Other Summonses" [Fiction]
  26. [2023-10-18] A quick reminder that deep learning is a hack
  27. [2023-10-18] New short story: "Professional Integrity" [Fiction]
  28. [2023-10-07] New short story: "NPC Encounters" [Fiction]
  29. [2023-10-02] New short story: "The Former Frontier" [Fiction]
  30. [2023-09-28] A couple of useful papers on modeling and measuring AIs and human minds
  31. [2023-09-27] The Spy Who Knew Nothing
  32. [2023-09-26] New short story: "Bedroom Memories" [Fiction]
  33. [2023-09-18] Quick Link: Surveillance AI as an export
  34. [2023-09-17] New short story: "Ecological Succession" [Fiction]
  35. [2023-09-10] New short story: "The Thin Dotted Line" [Fiction]
  36. [2023-09-04] New short story: "Battlefield Conversion" [Fiction]
  37. [2023-09-01] The distracted geopolitics of stochastic parrots
  38. [2023-08-30] New short story: "Illusion of Choice" [Fiction]
  39. [2023-08-20] New short story: "Restorative Justice" [Fiction]
  40. [2023-08-18] Quick link: "Genesis-DB: a database for autonomous laboratory systems"
  41. [2023-08-16] New short story: "Solution Space" [Fiction]
  42. [2023-08-06] New short story: "Romantic Chemistry" [Fiction]
  43. [2023-08-05] Quick link: just because you're superhuman it doesn't mean you get to be inconsistent
  44. [2023-08-03] Neurotech-proofing Your Product Design: A First Step
  45. [2023-08-02] New short story: "The Computational Complexity of Love" [Fiction]
  46. [2023-07-25] New short story: "A Solitary Death" [Fiction]
  47. [2023-07-24] The LLM revolution is going great
  48. [2023-07-21] When you have a generic content generator, everything looks generic content
  49. [2023-07-18] The problem isn't intelligence being artificial, it's intelligence being uniform
  50. [2023-07-15] New short story: "Bad Feelings" [Fiction]
  51. [2023-07-10] New short story: "How to survive visiting a dead town" [Fiction]
  52. [2023-07-04] Wavelights and AIs as strategic amplifiers
  53. [2023-07-02] NPS, I'm looking at you...
  54. [2023-07-01] New short story: "A Distant Home" [Fiction]
  55. [2023-06-27] New short story: "A Sense of Community" [Fiction]
  56. [2023-06-20] New short story: "Emotional Surplus" [Fiction]
  57. [2023-06-10] New short story: "The Knife, the Catacomb, the Crime, and the Saint" [Fiction]
  58. [2023-06-08] To get a glimpse of the future, read the PhD theses of smart people
  59. [2023-06-06] Large language models are stranger than most people think
  60. [2023-06-04] Very good advice from very smart people on experiment design
  61. [2023-06-03] New short story: "Lightly Censored Letter Home from a Ghoul" [Fiction]
  62. [2023-05-28] New short story: "The Third Inheritance" [Fiction]
  63. [2023-05-21] Quick link: de novo antibody design with generative AI
  64. [2023-05-21] New short story: "The Commute" [Fiction]
  65. [2023-05-15] Quick link: Configurable apps for grown-ups
  66. [2023-05-14] Quick link: How efficient is public infrastructure investment?
  67. [2023-05-14] New short story: "Upon the Place Beneath" [Fiction]
  68. [2023-05-09] AI and your career
  69. [2023-05-08] New short story: "How to hunt monsters" [Fiction]
  70. [2023-05-02] How to improve your information diet in a generative AI world
  71. [2023-04-29] New short story: "Iterative Prototyping" [Fiction]
  72. [2023-04-22] The World Bank on the energy transition in low- and middle-income countries: to solve the lack of sandwiches, get bread and ham
  73. [2023-04-22] New short story: "Forensic Analysis" [Fiction]
  74. [2023-04-17] New short story: "Educational Software" [Fiction]
  75. [2023-04-14] Enshittification, accounting... and email?
  76. [2023-04-11] The AI killer app isn't answers, it's questions
  77. [2023-04-10] New short story: "The Plot" [Fiction]
  78. [2023-04-05] What I mean when I say "written without an AI"
  79. [2023-04-02] New short story: "Night and Rain were the Local Optimum" [Fiction]
  80. [2023-03-30] The new scarcity value of creative theory
  81. [2023-03-26] New short story: "A Sense of Identity" [Fiction]
  82. [2023-03-23] An SteampunkGPT thought experiment
  83. [2023-03-22] AI, negative externalities, and using economics to stop the Office Apocalypse
  84. [2023-03-19] New short story: "Criminogenic Tech" [Fiction]
  85. [2023-03-13] Innovation is what you build when everybody else is nervous [Fiction]
  86. [2023-03-12] New short story: "Targeting Protocols" [Fiction]
  87. [2023-03-04] New short story: "Small Transactions" [Fiction]
  88. [2023-03-03] How to think about that Google "mind reading with Stable Diffusion" paper
  89. [2023-03-01] New short story: "A Catalog of Invisible Things" [Fiction]
  90. [2023-02-22] New short story: "Extraneous" [Fiction]
  91. [2023-02-15] New short story: "A Map of the Sea" [Fiction]
  92. [2023-02-14] Time for a post-Musk public understanding of "the algorithm"
  93. [2023-02-10] New short story: "A Willingness to Help" [Fiction]
  94. [2023-02-08] Of Chatbots, Love, Money, and Sherlock Holmes
  95. [2023-02-01] The AI CFO
  96. [2023-01-31] New short story: "To Watch with Loving Eyes" [Fiction]
  97. [2023-01-24] ChatGPT isn't smart, your tests are stupid
  98. [2023-01-21] New short story: "Noir" [Fiction]
  99. [2023-01-19] AI and the macroeconomics of brains
  100. [2023-01-14] New short story: "The Cartographer" [Fiction]
  101. [2023-01-10] Relax: ChatGPT mostly breaks the parts of the Internet that are already broken
  102. [2023-01-07] New short story: "Therapeutic" [Fiction]
  103. [2023-01-05] A short timeline of the future of BCIs
  104. [2023-01-03] Ask not what AI can do for HR, but what HR will have to do for AI

2022 87

  1. [2022-12-31] New short story: "The Perhaps Vendetta" [Fiction]
  2. [2022-12-24] "X for the Unknown"
  3. [2022-12-22] Don't be afraid of butterflies
  4. [2022-12-20] AIs as societal zero-day exploits
  5. [2022-12-19] Programming is (also) a liberal art
  6. [2022-12-19] New short story: "The Summation" [Fiction]
  7. [2022-12-16] Crypto was a poetical triumph... and/or epistemic nihilism
  8. [2022-12-15] Web 3 is older than the century
  9. [2022-12-10] New short story: "Rules of the Farm" [Fiction]
  10. [2022-12-05] New short story: "After the War" [Fiction]
  11. [2022-11-26] New short story: "The Fractal Order" [Fiction]
  12. [2022-11-20] New short story: "Alchemical Diagrams" [Fiction]
  13. [2022-11-12] New short story: "The Wittgenstein Condition" [Fiction]
  14. [2022-11-11] Cognitive culture, the tech market collapse, and what to focus 2023 startups on
  15. [2022-11-07] How to defeat a superhuman AI
  16. [2022-11-07] The AI biotech revolution won't be the one you think
  17. [2022-11-07] New short story: "On the Church of the Sea" [Fiction]
  18. [2022-10-31] New short story: "Self-criticism" [Fiction]
  19. [2022-10-23] New short story: "After the Rally at VR R'lyeh" [Fiction]
  20. [2022-10-18] New short story: "The World-Stealer" [Fiction]
  21. [2022-10-08] New short story: "What Gold Dreams Of" [Fiction]
  22. [2022-10-06] Book chapter for "Argentina en Internet"
  23. [2022-10-04] New short story: "Game Mechanics" [Fiction]
  24. [2022-09-24] New short story: "Molecular Sacrament" [Fiction]
  25. [2022-09-17] New short story: "The Family Crypt" [Fiction]
  26. [2022-09-12] New short story: "To be Known by the Walls" [Fiction]
  27. [2022-09-03] New short story: "New Foundations" [Fiction]
  28. [2022-08-27] New short story: "The Defeated" [Fiction]
  29. [2022-08-20] New short story: "Three Tales and a Memo" [Fiction]
  30. [2022-08-16] On privacy as a wu wei feature
  31. [2022-08-14] New short story: "Sensory Deprivation" [Fiction]
  32. [2022-08-08] A throwaway note on haunted houses, websites, and other architectural monstrosities
  33. [2022-08-05] A throwaway note on the rhizome of all evil
  34. [2022-08-04] New short story: "Hieratic" [Fiction]
  35. [2022-08-02] A throwaway note on learning myopia and strategic fear [Fiction]
  36. [2022-07-31] New short story: "In Your Head" [Fiction]
  37. [2022-07-28] A throwaway note on the archetypal impact of quantum computing
  38. [2022-07-23] New short story: "The Holy Assassin" [Fiction]
  39. [2022-07-14] A throwaway note on haunted algorithms
  40. [2022-07-14] New short story: "A prayer for forgiveness" [Fiction]
  41. [2022-07-13] A throwaway note on Deleuze-Guattari and crappy social networks
  42. [2022-07-13] A throwaway note on the aesthetics of AI
  43. [2022-07-09] New short story: "The Bloody Tree" [Fiction]
  44. [2022-07-02] New short story: "Legal Magic" [Fiction]
  45. [2022-06-30] Rethinking the startup for a world of expensive money and cheap computation
  46. [2022-06-25] New short story: "Procedural" [Fiction]
  47. [2022-06-19] New short story: "Faster and Deeper than the Eye" [Fiction]
  48. [2022-06-11] Unstarted Revolutions: How to think about what AI hasn't changed (yet)
  49. [2022-06-11] New short story: "The Future of Work" [Fiction]
  50. [2022-06-04] New short story: "Rumor" [Fiction]
  51. [2022-05-28] Decolonizing the Smart City for Fun and Profit [Fiction]
  52. [2022-05-28] New short story: "A Theology of the Depths" [Fiction]
  53. [2022-05-24] Financial innovation after the Fintechdämmerung [Fiction]
  54. [2022-05-22] New short story: "White Collar Work at the Central Node of All Realities" [Fiction]
  55. [2022-05-14] New short story: "The Light After" [Fiction]
  56. [2022-05-08] New short story: "The Art of the Balanced Party" [Fiction]
  57. [2022-05-06] On WIRED: "DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See"
  58. [2022-04-28] New short story: "Monstrous Choices" [Fiction]
  59. [2022-04-23] New short story: "The Singularity Probe" [Fiction]
  60. [2022-04-16] What does DALL-E 2 know that it can't show us?
  61. [2022-04-16] New short story: "The Black Car" [Fiction]
  62. [2022-04-14] My podcast with Get Your AI On!
  63. [2022-04-10] Why warning about technical debt only makes it worse
  64. [2022-04-09] New short story: "Iterative Design" [Fiction]
  65. [2022-04-08] DALL-E 2 is out (although not open)
  66. [2022-04-02] New short story: "The Story in the Blood" [Fiction]
  67. [2022-03-26] Macho Cyberwarfare and the Long Game
  68. [2022-03-26] New short story: "Synapses Firing Like Shards of Light" [Fiction]
  69. [2022-03-20] New short story: "The Stone Mind" [Fiction]
  70. [2022-03-13] New short story: "The Babel Journal" [Fiction]
  71. [2022-03-10] PSG Startups and the Piles-of-Money Trap
  72. [2022-03-05] New short story: "Adversarial Training" [Fiction]
  73. [2022-02-26] New short story: "A Cartography of Sighs" [Fiction]
  74. [2022-02-19] New short story: "A Room with a Voice" [Fiction]
  75. [2022-02-16] Artificial Intelligence without the Data
  76. [2022-02-14] New short story: "Unplugged" [Fiction]
  77. [2022-02-10] New short story: "The Goddess of War" [Fiction]
  78. [2022-02-06] We've got our climate change priorities backwards
  79. [2022-01-31] New short story: "The Job of Your Dreams" [Fiction]
  80. [2022-01-31] Sustainability as Collective Superintelligence [Fiction]
  81. [2022-01-24] New short story: "The Time Machine Engineering War" [Fiction]
  82. [2022-01-15] Strategies for the NFT economy from the ground up
  83. [2022-01-15] New short story: "Cryptogothic" [Fiction]
  84. [2022-01-12] The banality of coup prediction algorithms, and the possible political uselessness of AI [Fiction]
  85. [2022-01-09] What comes next in the art-finance nexus
  86. [2022-01-08] New short story: "New Life" [Fiction]
  87. [2022-01-04] New short story: "The Five-Second Gap" [Fiction]

2021 176

  1. [2021-12-29] Let's not build a Neuro-Clearview AI, please
  2. [2021-12-27] When good AI ethics is just good AI engineering
  3. [2021-12-25] New short story: "A Crisper Fairy Tale" [Fiction]
  4. [2021-12-20] New short story: "Silent Whispers" [Fiction]
  5. [2021-12-18] The Metaverse as Second-Rate Prophecy
  6. [2021-12-11] New short story: "Reality v2" [Fiction]
  7. [2021-12-08] New short story: "The Writers' Room" [Fiction]
  8. [2021-11-28] Seeing like the market – Nov 28, 2021
  9. [2021-11-28] What’s new in News – Nov 21, 2021 to Nov 27, 2021
  10. [2021-11-27] Two hundred words on AI as a delaying factor in pharmaceutical innovation
  11. [2021-11-27] New short story: "Level Up" [Fiction]
  12. [2021-11-22] Reality leaks, and the Metaverse will be worse
  13. [2021-11-21] Seeing like the market – Nov 21, 2021
  14. [2021-11-21] What’s new in News – Nov 14, 2021 to Nov 20, 2021
  15. [2021-11-21] New short story: "Metaverse Blues" [Fiction]
  16. [2021-11-16] Updated the map of TED talks
  17. [2021-11-14] Seeing like the market – Nov 14, 2021
  18. [2021-11-14] What’s new in News – Nov 7, 2021 to Nov 13, 2021
  19. [2021-11-11] New short story: "The Rights to the Rose" [Fiction]
  20. [2021-11-07] Seeing like the market – Nov 7, 2021
  21. [2021-11-06] New short story: "Ghost Hunters" [Fiction]
  22. [2021-11-01] Update to the COVID-19 Country Response Scores
  23. [2021-10-31] Seeing like the market - Oct 31, 2021
  24. [2021-10-31] What’s new in News – Oct 24, 2021 to Oct 30, 2021
  25. [2021-10-30] New short story: "Asylum HQ" [Fiction]
  26. [2021-10-24] Seeing like the market – Oct 24, 2021
  27. [2021-10-24] What’s new in News – Oct 17, 2021 to Oct 23, 2021
  28. [2021-10-24] New short story: "Orbiter" [Fiction]
  29. [2021-10-22] Decentralized Medicine (DeMed): how to survive as a doctor and thrive as a patient in a world of ubiquitous AI
  30. [2021-10-20] The three arms of the crypto galaxy [Fiction]
  31. [2021-10-19] On The Economics of Crappy AI
  32. [2021-10-17] Seeing like the market – Oct 17, 2021
  33. [2021-10-17] What’s new in News – Oct 10, 2021 to Oct 16, 2021
  34. [2021-10-16] New short story: "On the Ghosts of Former Lovers" [Fiction]
  35. [2021-10-15] Updated the map of TED talks
  36. [2021-10-10] Seeing like the market – Oct 10, 2021
  37. [2021-10-10] What’s new in News – Oct 3, 2021 to Oct 9, 2021
  38. [2021-10-09] New short story: "Primus Inter Pares" [Fiction]
  39. [2021-10-03] Seeing like the market – Oct 3, 2021
  40. [2021-10-03] What’s new in News – Sep 26, 2021 to Oct 2, 2021
  41. [2021-10-02] New short story: "The Strangers" [Fiction]
  42. [2021-10-01] Update to the COVID-19 Country Response Scores
  43. [2021-09-30] There's no such thing as an outlier...
  44. [2021-09-29] Exactamente cuatro frases sobre la política energética argentina
  45. [2021-09-26] Seeing like the market - Sep 26, 2021
  46. [2021-09-26] What’s new in News – Sep 19, 2021 to Sep 25, 2021
  47. [2021-09-25] Two hundred words on the role of self-indulgence in a career in tech
  48. [2021-09-25] New short story: "The Camelot Daily" [Fiction]
  49. [2021-09-19] Seeing like the market – Sep 19, 2021
  50. [2021-09-19] What’s new in News – Sep 12, 2021 to Sep 18, 2021
  51. [2021-09-19] New short story: "Inside the Blazing Forest" [Fiction]
  52. [2021-09-16] TED World updated!
  53. [2021-09-12] Seeing like the market - Sep 12, 2021
  54. [2021-09-12] What’s new in News – Sep 5, 2021 to Sep 11, 2021
  55. [2021-09-12] New short story: "Human Supervision" [Fiction]
  56. [2021-09-05] Seeing Like the Market – Sep 5, 2021
  57. [2021-09-05] What’s new in News – Aug 29, 2021 to Sep 4, 2021
  58. [2021-09-04] New short story: "The GPT-5 Revelation" [Fiction]
  59. [2021-09-01] Update to the COVID-19 Country Response Scores
  60. [2021-08-31] Two hundred words on the paradox of AI job monitoring
  61. [2021-08-29] Seeing Like the Market – Aug 29, 2021
  62. [2021-08-29] What’s new in News – Aug 22, 2021 to Aug 28, 2021
  63. [2021-08-28] Two hundred words on what elite football tells us about organizational competitiveness (and Afghanistan)
  64. [2021-08-28] New short story: "Gearhead" [Fiction]
  65. [2021-08-25] Two hundred words on the problems of insuring self-driving cars
  66. [2021-08-22] Seeing Like the Market – Aug 22, 2021
  67. [2021-08-22] What’s new in News – Aug 15, 2021 to Aug 21, 2021
  68. [2021-08-22] Words will not stay in place: tracking vocabulary micro-shifts
  69. [2021-08-22] New short story: "On overstepping the modesty of nature" [Fiction]
  70. [2021-08-15] Seeing Like the Market – Aug 15, 2021
  71. [2021-08-15] What’s new in News – Aug 8, 2021 to Aug 14, 2021
  72. [2021-08-15] New short story: "Enemy AI" [Fiction]
  73. [2021-08-09] New short story: "The Six Sigma Saint" [Fiction]
  74. [2021-08-08] Seeing Like the Market – Aug 8, 2021
  75. [2021-08-08] What’s new in News – Aug 1, 2021 to Aug 7, 2021
  76. [2021-08-07] TED World updated!
  77. [2021-08-01] Seeing Like the Market – Aug 1, 2021
  78. [2021-08-01] Update to the COVID-19 Country Response Scores
  79. [2021-08-01] What’s new in News – Jul 25, 2021 to Jul 31, 2021
  80. [2021-07-28] A Map of TED World (not affiliated to TED)
  81. [2021-07-25] Seeing Like the Market – Jul 25, 2021
  82. [2021-07-25] What’s new in News – Jul 18, 2021 to Jul 24, 2021
  83. [2021-07-25] New short story: "Risk Control" [Fiction]
  84. [2021-07-18] Seeing Like the Market – Jul 18, 2021
  85. [2021-07-18] What’s new in News – Jul 11, 2021 to Jul 17, 2021
  86. [2021-07-17] New short story: "Provenance" [Fiction]
  87. [2021-07-11] Seeing Like the Market – Jul 11, 2021
  88. [2021-07-11] What’s new in News – Jul 4, 2021 to Jul 10, 2021
  89. [2021-07-10] New short story: "Deep Space Travel Journal from New Jersey" [Fiction]
  90. [2021-07-07] Secular trends and information shocks: telling a rocket from an NFT
  91. [2021-07-04] Seeing Like the Market – Jul 4, 2021
  92. [2021-07-04] What’s new in News – Jun 27, 2021 to Jul 3, 2021
  93. [2021-07-04] New short story: "The Call of the Stars" [Fiction]
  94. [2021-07-03] Update to the COVID-19 Country Response Scores
  95. [2021-06-27] Seeing Like the Market – Jun 27, 2021
  96. [2021-06-27] What’s new in News – Jun 20, 2021 to Jun 26, 2021
  97. [2021-06-27] New short story: "Poisoners' Gold" [Fiction]
  98. [2021-06-20] Seeing Like the Market – Jun 20, 2021
  99. [2021-06-20] What’s new in News – Jun 13, 2021 to Jun 19, 2021
  100. [2021-06-20] New short story: "The Black Blight of Mars" [Fiction]
  101. [2021-06-13] Seeing Like the Market – Jun 13, 2021
  102. [2021-06-13] What's new in News - Jun 6, 2021 to Jun 12, 2021
  103. [2021-06-13] New short story: "The Flaw" [Fiction]
  104. [2021-06-07] Seeing Like the Market – Jun 6, 2021
  105. [2021-06-07] What’s new in News – May 29, 2021 to Jun 6, 2021
  106. [2021-06-06] New short story: "Algorithmic Trades" [Fiction]
  107. [2021-06-03] Introducing the Investment Climatology Project
  108. [2021-06-01] Update to the COVID-19 Country Response Scores
  109. [2021-05-30] Seeing Like the Market – May 30, 2021
  110. [2021-05-30] What’s new in News – May 23, 2021 to May 29, 2021
  111. [2021-05-30] New short story: "The Corrected Stuff" [Fiction]
  112. [2021-05-23] Seeing Like the Market – May 23, 2021
  113. [2021-05-23] What’s new in News – May 16, 2021 to May 22, 2021
  114. [2021-05-22] Ficción: "El Libro de Todos los Nombres"
  115. [2021-05-22] New short story: "The Book of All Names" [Fiction]
  116. [2021-05-16] Seeing Like the Market – May 16, 2021
  117. [2021-05-16] What’s new in News – May 9, 2021 to May 15, 2021
  118. [2021-05-15] New short story: "Zombie Movies" [Fiction]
  119. [2021-05-13] Seeing the world like a container
  120. [2021-05-09] Seeing Like the Market – May 9, 2021
  121. [2021-05-09] What’s new in News – May 2, 2021 to May 8, 2021
  122. [2021-05-08] New short story: "Rights Management" [Fiction]
  123. [2021-05-03] New short story: "Basketball IQ" [Fiction]
  124. [2021-05-02] Seeing Like the Market - May 2, 2021
  125. [2021-05-02] What's new in News - Apr 25, 2021 to May 1, 2021
  126. [2021-04-25] Seeing Like the Market - Apr 25, 2021
  127. [2021-04-25] Update to the COVID-19 Country Response Scores
  128. [2021-04-25] What's new in News - Apr 18 to Apr 24
  129. [2021-04-24] New short story: "Fireside Chats" [Fiction]
  130. [2021-04-18] Seeing Like the Market - Apr 18, 2021
  131. [2021-04-18] What's New in News - Apr 11, 2021 to Apr 17, 2021
  132. [2021-04-17] New short story: "The Tiresian Mind-Builders" [Fiction]
  133. [2021-04-11] Seeing Like the Market - Apr 11, 2021
  134. [2021-04-11] What's New in News - Apr 4, 2021 to Apr 10, 2021
  135. [2021-04-10] New short story: "The Angels of Maybe" [Fiction]
  136. [2021-04-05] New short story: "The Game of Life" [Fiction]
  137. [2021-04-04] Seeing Like the Market - Apr 4, 2021
  138. [2021-04-04] What's New in News - Mar 28, 2021 to Apr 3, 2021
  139. [2021-04-01] Update to the COVID-19 Country Response Scores
  140. [2021-03-28] Seeing Like the Market - Mar 28, 2021
  141. [2021-03-28] What’s New in News – Mar 14, 2021 to Mar 20, 2021
  142. [2021-03-27] New short story: "The Secrecy of Need" [Fiction]
  143. [2021-03-26] Apache (van Gogh, 1910)
  144. [2021-03-21] Seeing Like the Market - Mar 21, 2021
  145. [2021-03-21] What's New in News - Mar 14, 2021 to Mar 20, 2021
  146. [2021-03-20] New short story: "Tale of the One Waiting" [Fiction]
  147. [2021-03-15] Seeing Like the Market - Mar 15, 2021
  148. [2021-03-15] What's New in News - Mar 7, 2021 to Mar 13, 2021
  149. [2021-03-12] New short story: "Theseus, the Minotaur, and the Labyrinth" [Fiction]
  150. [2021-03-07] Seeing Like the Market - Mar 7, 2021
  151. [2021-03-07] What's New in News - Feb 28, 2021 to Mar 6, 2021
  152. [2021-03-01] Update to the COVID-19 Country Response Scores
  153. [2021-02-28] Seeing Like the Market - Feb 28, 2021
  154. [2021-02-28] What's New in News - Feb 21, 2021 to Feb 27, 2021
  155. [2021-02-22] Seeing Like the Market - Feb 21, 2021
  156. [2021-02-22] What's New in News - Feb 14, 2021 to Feb 20, 2021
  157. [2021-02-22] New short story: "The Rose Garden" [Fiction]
  158. [2021-02-14] Seeing Like the Market - Feb 14, 2021
  159. [2021-02-14] What's New in News - Feb 7, 2021 to Feb 13, 2021
  160. [2021-02-14] New short story: "Sanity Check" [Fiction]
  161. [2021-02-07] Seeing Like the Market - Feb 7, 2021
  162. [2021-02-07] What's New in News - Jan 31, 2021 to Feb 6, 2021
  163. [2021-02-06] New short story: "Red Team/Green Team" [Fiction]
  164. [2021-02-05] Seeing like the market
  165. [2021-02-02] Update to the COVID-19 Country Response Scores
  166. [2021-01-31] What's New in News - Jan 24, 2021 to Jan 30, 2021
  167. [2021-01-30] New short story: "The Pale Rider" [Fiction]
  168. [2021-01-24] What's New in News - Jan 17, 2021 to Jan 23, 2021
  169. [2021-01-23] New short story: "The Genius Factory" [Fiction]
  170. [2021-01-17] What's New in News - Jan 10, 2021 to Jan 16, 2021
  171. [2021-01-17] New short story: "A Tale to Remember" [Fiction]
  172. [2021-01-14] Comparing the effectiveness of country-level responses to COVID-19
  173. [2021-01-11] What's New in News - Jan 3, 2021 to Jan 9, 2021
  174. [2021-01-10] New short story: "The Contract" [Fiction]
  175. [2021-01-05] New short story: "Half a History of the Second Singularity" [Fiction]
  176. [2021-01-02] Finding what's truly new in the news

2020 53

  1. [2020-12-28] New short story: "The Project Manager" [Fiction]
  2. [2020-12-23] New short story: "Freedom at the Speed of Code" [Fiction]
  3. [2020-12-18] Dreaming cars with AIs
  4. [2020-12-15] New short story: "Those Left Behind" [Fiction]
  5. [2020-12-05] New short story: The Language of Love [Fiction]
  6. [2020-11-28] Chaotic but not complex: over(?)-simplifying recent Argentinean economic history
  7. [2020-11-28] New short story: The Déjà vu Shield [Fiction]
  8. [2020-11-23] New short story: The God-Builders [Fiction]
  9. [2020-11-15] New short story: The Still Wheel [Fiction]
  10. [2020-11-08] New short story: The Copenhagen Murders [Fiction]
  11. [2020-11-01] New short story: In the Negative Space of Light [Fiction]
  12. [2020-10-30] Short story: Short Guide to the Museum of Simulated Societies [Fiction]
  13. [2020-10-30] Short story: The Garden Gambit [Fiction]
  14. [2020-10-30] Short story: The Rumor of Dragons [Fiction]
  15. [2020-10-30] Short story: Years Like Smoke [Fiction]
  16. [2020-09-28] New short story: The Zoom Journals [Fiction]
  17. [2020-09-25] New short story: The Friendly Buildings [Fiction]
  18. [2020-09-14] New short story: The barista who could disarm nuclear bombs [Fiction]
  19. [2020-09-05] New short story: The Green Gears [Fiction]
  20. [2020-08-31] New short story: Gold in the Blood [Fiction]
  21. [2020-08-29] "Aplanar la curva: la ciencia de datos como articuladora de políticas de Estado"
  22. [2020-08-23] New short story: The Truth About Clones [Fiction]
  23. [2020-08-16] New short story: Red Requiem [Fiction]
  24. [2020-08-13] Beyond Kahneman - How to think very slow
  25. [2020-08-08] New short story: The Frankenstein Society [Fiction]
  26. [2020-08-01] New short story: Saints of the Scorched Earth [Fiction]
  27. [2020-07-27] New short story: The Sum of All Secrets [Fiction]
  28. [2020-07-02] New short story: The Sleeping Hand [Fiction]
  29. [2020-06-20] New short story: The Uncounted [Fiction]
  30. [2020-06-19] The ethical nonsense (and plutocratic convenience) of AI rights
  31. [2020-06-13] New short story: Dream Job [Fiction]
  32. [2020-06-06] New short story: The Recursive Grammar of Progress [Fiction]
  33. [2020-05-31] New short story: Frankenstein's Angel [Fiction]
  34. [2020-05-24] New short story: Don't Share [Fiction]
  35. [2020-05-18] New short story: The Leadership Advantage [Fiction]
  36. [2020-05-11] New short story: Afterlife [Fiction]
  37. [2020-05-09] New short story: The Long Room [Fiction]
  38. [2020-04-27] New short story: Guidelines for a Contemporary Vampire Story [Fiction]
  39. [2020-04-21] New short story: Deep Necromancy for a Dead World [Fiction]
  40. [2020-04-14] New short story: Sundays at the Unicorn Park [Fiction]
  41. [2020-03-30] New short story: Three Moments from the History of the Exploration of the Solar System [Fiction]
  42. [2020-03-26] New short story: The Human Touch [Fiction]
  43. [2020-03-20] New short story: But Do Mental Asylums Dream of Electric Seas? [Fiction]
  44. [2020-03-11] New short story: Algorithms of Mercy and Judgement [Fiction]
  45. [2020-02-29] New short story: Flesh Telemetry [Fiction]
  46. [2020-02-22] New short story: The Death-Baiters of the Worldwide Catastrophe Circuit [Fiction]
  47. [2020-02-16] New short story: My Brother the Sensor [Fiction]
  48. [2020-02-12] New short story: "Forensic Geology" [Fiction]
  49. [2020-02-01] New short story: "The Ghost Town on the Moon" [Fiction]
  50. [2020-01-26] New short story: "On Accounting as Slow-motion Necromancy" [Fiction]
  51. [2020-01-20] New short story: How I Found the Brother I Didn't Know I Had [Fiction]
  52. [2020-01-14] New short story: "The Spirit of Global Sport" [Fiction]
  53. [2020-01-06] New short story: "The Overview Effect" [Fiction]

2019 15

  1. [2019-12-29] New short story: "Sideways" [Fiction]
  2. [2019-12-17] New short story: "The Rewilding" [Fiction]
  3. [2019-12-01] New short story: "Blue Collar" [Fiction]
  4. [2019-11-18] New short story: "Wordless Prayers of the Small Ones" [Fiction]
  5. [2019-11-09] New short story: "The Poisonous Song of the Skies" [Fiction]
  6. [2019-11-03] New short story: "Noontime Dawns" [Fiction]
  7. [2019-11-02] How the New York Times' coverage changed between September and October 2019
  8. [2019-10-28] New short story: "War Drone" [Fiction]
  9. [2019-10-21] New short story: "Blue, Grey, Red" [Fiction]
  10. [2019-10-18] Mapping the shift in what the NY Times covers
  11. [2019-10-14] New short story: "The Last Words of the Hero of the Heatwave Wars" [Fiction]
  12. [2019-10-10] New short story - and short SF newsletter [Fiction]
  13. [2019-04-27] Smart cities are for refugees
  14. [2019-04-01] AIs are scapegoats and it's us who end up bleeding
  15. [2019-02-15] Using outcome-driven AI to avoid fake ROI traps

2018 19

  1. [2018-12-10] 2019 Should be the end of Big Attention
  2. [2018-12-08] AI for Science and Management in 2019: You haven't seen disruption yet
  3. [2018-11-26] Digital anamnesis and other crimes [short story] [Fiction]
  4. [2018-09-24] Short story: "On Agile Management as a Mechanism of Social Control" [Fiction]
  5. [2018-07-26] Mapping the shifting constellations of online debate
  6. [2018-07-19] The politics of crime-fighting software
  7. [2018-06-24] Using machine learning to read Sherlock Holmes
  8. [2018-05-02] The mystical underpinnings of Facebook's anti-fake news algorithms
  9. [2018-04-19] Superman: The Last Son of Prague
  10. [2018-04-18] Cyber-weapons as a form of magic, and why we can't code our way to a safer internet
  11. [2018-04-16] Wages, jobs, and unions in a world with AI (among other things)
  12. [2018-03-29] Applying machine learning to SEC filings to find anomalous companies
  13. [2018-03-09] Using Artificial Intelligence to Understand Brands
  14. [2018-02-19] Flash fic: Posthumous
  15. [2018-02-15] Urban sensors are for the fog of (climate) war
  16. [2018-02-10] What's the healthiest city in the US? (and what does that even mean?)
  17. [2018-01-15] The normalcy of online learning: the more you study, the better you do
  18. [2018-01-12] The normalcy of online learning: the more you study, the better you do
  19. [2018-01-08] Deep(ly) Unsettling: The ubiquitous, unspoken business model of AI-induced mental illness

2017 45

  1. [2017-12-14] When devops involves monitoring for excess suicides
  2. [2017-12-13] Short story: Nanobots and the Teenage Brain [Fiction]
  3. [2017-12-05] Short Story: The Voice of Things [Fiction]
  4. [2017-12-04] Hegemonía electoral y outliers estadísticos
  5. [2017-12-01] hackaton electoral
  6. [2017-11-27] Short story: Soul in the Loop [Fiction]
  7. [2017-11-11] Reinforcement Learning #1
  8. [2017-11-09] Short story: Logs from a haunted heart [Fiction]
  9. [2017-10-29] There are only two emotions in Facebook, and we only use one at a time
  10. [2017-10-24] What makes an algorithm feminist, and why we need them to be
  11. [2017-10-22] Financial apps and your brain: the neuroscience behind successful consumer fintech
  12. [2017-10-21] Fútbol, semántica, y violencia política
  13. [2017-10-16] Any sufficiently advanced totalitarianism is indistinguishable from Facebook
  14. [2017-10-04] Banks, Fintech, and First-magician Advantage
  15. [2017-10-03] Open Source is one of the engines of the world's economy and culture. Its next iteration will be bigger.
  16. [2017-09-30] Russia 1, Data Science 0
  17. [2017-09-26] ¿Qué quiere decir que la Argentina crezca 3%?
  18. [2017-09-18] Tesla (or Google) and the risk of massively distributed physical terrorist attacks
  19. [2017-09-14] Probability-as-logic vs probability-as-strategy vs probability-as-measure-theory
  20. [2017-09-10] Original Fic: The Gift of Memory
  21. [2017-08-24] Big Data, Endless Wars, and Why Gamification (Often) Fails
  22. [2017-07-26] Article in La Nación
  23. [2017-07-08] No es la grieta, es el techo
  24. [2017-07-05] A simplified nuclear game with Kim Jong-un
  25. [2017-07-05] This screen is an attack surface
  26. [2017-06-13] Regularization, continuity, and the mystery of generalization in Deep Learning
  27. [2017-05-26] Short story: Nice girl falls in love with vampire boy. Of course he kills her [Fiction]
  28. [2017-05-24] Don't worry about opaque algorithms; you already don't know what anything is doing, or why
  29. [2017-05-16] The insidious not-so-badness of technological underemployment, and why more education and better technology won't help
  30. [2017-05-04] The case for blockchains as international aid
  31. [2017-05-04] Short story: The Associate [Fiction]
  32. [2017-04-28] Statistics, Simians, the Scottish, and Sizing up Soothsayers
  33. [2017-04-25] The Children of the Dead City
  34. [2017-04-21] Why the most influential business AIs will look like spellcheckers (and a toy example of how to build one)
  35. [2017-04-17] Don't blame algorithms for United's (literally) bloody mess
  36. [2017-03-29] Deep Learning as the apotheosis of Test-Driven Development
  37. [2017-03-27] "Tactical Awareness" en Español
  38. [2017-02-28] Short story: The Eater of Silicon Sins [Fiction]
  39. [2017-02-22] Short story: Dead Man's Trigger [Fiction]
  40. [2017-01-31] The new (and very old) political responsibility of data scientists
  41. [2017-01-16] Rush Hour
  42. [2017-01-12] The Mental Health of Smart Cities
  43. [2017-01-10] How to be data-driven without data...
  44. [2017-01-03] In the News that Make me Very Proud department... [Fiction]
  45. [2017-01-02] Safe Travels

2016 47

  1. [2016-12-23] The best political countersurveillance tool is to grow the heck up
  2. [2016-12-07] The informal sector Singularity
  3. [2016-10-28] In very nice-slash-surprising news...
  4. [2016-10-18] For the unexpected innovations, look where you'd rather not
  5. [2016-10-17] The Differentiable Organization
  6. [2016-10-14] Yuletide Mythos story (Haven't figured out a title yet)
  7. [2016-10-11] Cuando subastan tus emociones
  8. [2016-10-07] When your boss is an algorithm (talk outline)
  9. [2016-10-03] When the world is the ad
  10. [2016-09-09] (Over)Simplifying Calgary too
  11. [2016-09-09] When your world is the ad
  12. [2016-09-06] (Over)Simplifying Buenos Aires
  13. [2016-08-05] Comentarios Marajofsky
  14. [2016-07-29] PROJECT CHEETO
  15. [2016-07-29] PROJECT MONTGOMERY
  16. [2016-05-05] The job of the future isn't creating artificial intelligences, but keeping them sane
  17. [2016-02-17] Big House Messiah
  18. [2016-02-17] Consider the lilies how they grow
  19. [2016-02-17] Phantom Notes
  20. [2016-02-17] Scorched Waters
  21. [2016-02-17] The Trading Company
  22. [2016-02-16] Nueva Charla: Aplicaciones comerciales de tecnologías militares
  23. [2016-02-15] Mobile ecosystem
  24. [2016-02-15] Sleep Paralysis
  25. [2016-02-15] Testament
  26. [2016-02-14] Let me not admit impediments
  27. [2016-02-14] Meat Market
  28. [2016-02-06] Inheritance
  29. [2016-02-05] On the uses of empathy
  30. [2016-02-05] Sic Semper
  31. [2016-02-05] Something waiting for you
  32. [2016-02-04] Fateful
  33. [2016-02-04] Graphe Chrysalis
  34. [2016-02-04] Honeypot
  35. [2016-02-04] Of the Forbidden Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge
  36. [2016-02-04] The Game
  37. [2016-02-04] The Ledger
  38. [2016-01-26] Ad Astra
  39. [2016-01-26] Digital Democracy
  40. [2016-01-26] The Builders of Cities
  41. [2016-01-21] The Lotus Protocol
  42. [2016-01-20] Motherboard: "​Sleep Tech Will Widen the Gap Between the Rich and the Poor"
  43. [2016-01-20] Motherboard: "​Sleep Tech Will Widen the Gap Between the Rich and the Poor"
  44. [2016-01-16] The Wall
  45. [2016-01-16] Voyeur
  46. [2016-01-12] A, B, Omega
  47. [2016-01-12] The Cartesian News

2015 69

  1. [2015-12-31] Apex Predator
  2. [2015-12-31] Eudaimonia
  3. [2015-12-31] Last Post
  4. [2015-12-31] The Black Ships
  5. [2015-12-31] The Heist
  6. [2015-12-29] A Rebellion of Ghosts
  7. [2015-12-29] The Knowledge of Self
  8. [2015-12-28] The Arsonists
  9. [2015-12-27] Bodycam Transcript
  10. [2015-12-27] Dangerous Strangers
  11. [2015-12-27] For Doesn't Love Conquer Time?
  12. [2015-12-27] Legacy
  13. [2015-12-27] Lessons
  14. [2015-12-27] Social Engineering
  15. [2015-12-27] Software Archeology
  16. [2015-12-27] The Art of Mirroring
  17. [2015-12-27] The Mars Pioneers
  18. [2015-12-27] The Smile of a Child
  19. [2015-12-27] The Thoughts of Crowds
  20. [2015-12-22] Windows to the Soul
  21. [2015-12-20] Panopticon
  22. [2015-12-20] Personalized
  23. [2015-12-19] Crowdsourced
  24. [2015-12-18] Lachesis
  25. [2015-12-17] Habilis
  26. [2015-12-17] The future of machine learning lies in its (human) past
  27. [2015-12-16] The Companion
  28. [2015-12-15] Dirge
  29. [2015-12-15] The truly dangerous AI gap is the political one
  30. [2015-12-14] Simurgh
  31. [2015-12-13] The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
  32. [2015-12-10] The Burroughs Hack
  33. [2015-12-09] The Monster-Maker's Testament
  34. [2015-12-08] Siege's End
  35. [2015-11-23] "Prior art" is just a fancy term for "too slow lawyering up"
  36. [2015-10-28] The gig economy is the oldest one, and it's always bad news
  37. [2015-10-12] The Man Who Was Made A People
  38. [2015-10-07] Bitcoin is Steampunk Economics
  39. [2015-09-25] The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious world
  40. [2015-09-16] We aren't uniquely self-destructive, just inexcusably so
  41. [2015-09-16] What places do we know the most about?
  42. [2015-09-10] An article about the gamification of personal finances (with a couple of quotes from yours truly)
  43. [2015-09-08] The Girl and the Forest
  44. [2015-08-28] Asking a Shadow to Dance
  45. [2015-08-17] An article on Revista Ventitrés with a couple of quotes from me
  46. [2015-08-06] The Telemarketer Singularity
  47. [2015-07-31] For archival purposes
  48. [2015-07-23] At the End of the World
  49. [2015-07-15] Datasthesia: Now with a manifesto!
  50. [2015-06-24] Memory City
  51. [2015-06-17] The Balkanization of Things
  52. [2015-06-04] The Secret
  53. [2015-06-02] Yesterday was a good day for crime
  54. [2015-05-25] Materializing data
  55. [2015-05-22] And Call it Justice (repost)
  56. [2015-05-22] The Long Stop
  57. [2015-05-22] The Rescue (repost)
  58. [2015-05-19] A Room in China
  59. [2015-05-15] The post-Westphalian Hooligan
  60. [2015-04-23] Soccer, messy data, and why I don't quite believe what this post says
  61. [2015-04-04] An Spanish translation of The Rescue
  62. [2015-03-06] An Spanish translation of And Call it Justice
  63. [2015-02-16] Quantitatively understanding your (and others') programming style
  64. [2015-02-13] Why we should always keep Shannon in mind
  65. [2015-02-12] The most important political document of the century is a computer simulation summary
  66. [2015-02-03] Posted elsewhere: another look at traffic accidents on La Nación Data, and a short story [Fiction]
  67. [2015-01-31] In self-referential news...
  68. [2015-01-23] Hi, Hy!
  69. [2015-01-18] The nominalist trap in Big Data analysis

2014 3

  1. [2014-12-15] Going Postal (in a self-quantified way)
  2. [2014-11-23] By the way, about this year-long hiatus
  3. [2014-11-23] Vaca Muerta and the usefulness of prediction markets

2013 7

  1. [2013-09-21] Another movie space: Iron Man 3 and Stoker
  2. [2013-09-04] The changing clusters of terrorism
  3. [2013-08-19] A short note to myself on Propp-Wilson sampling [Fiction]
  4. [2013-07-27] The Aliens/The Unbearable Lightness of Being classification space of movies
  5. [2013-07-24] Latent mini-clusters of movies
  6. [2013-07-22] Finding latent clusters of side effects
  7. [2013-02-23] A thing I did

2012 27

  1. [2012-12-18] Tom Sawyer, Bilingual
  2. [2012-12-17] A first look at phrase length distribution
  3. [2012-12-10] Barcelona and the Liga, or: Quantitative Support for Obvious Predictions
  4. [2012-12-10] Chesterton's magic word squares
  5. [2012-12-10] The Premier League: United vs. City championship chances
  6. [2012-12-07] Magic Squares of (probabilistically chosen) Words
  7. [2012-12-04] The Torneo Inicial 2012 in one graph (and 20 subgraphs)
  8. [2012-11-27] New collection of very short stories
  9. [2012-11-26] Update to championship probabilities
  10. [2012-11-23] Soccer, Monte Carlo, and Sandwiches
  11. [2012-09-27] A Case in Stochastic Flow: Bolton vs Manchester City
  12. [2012-09-20] Washington DC and the murderer's work ethic
  13. [2012-09-12] How Rooney beats van Persie, or, a first look at Premier League data
  14. [2012-09-10] Crime in Argentina
  15. [2012-08-27] Chicago and the Tree of Crime
  16. [2012-08-20] Bad guys, White Hat networks, and the Nuclear Switch
  17. [2012-08-02] A new collection of (really) short stories
  18. [2012-06-11] A flow control structure that never makes mistakes (sorta)
  19. [2012-04-30] A mostly blank slate
  20. [2012-02-17] Praefatio --- now with a bookmarklet
  21. [2012-02-15] The perfectly rational conspiracy theorist
  22. [2012-02-13] Fractals are unfair
  23. [2012-01-29] A way to read Wikipedia
  24. [2012-01-22] A modest, if egocentric, proposal
  25. [2012-01-17] Men's bathrooms are (quantum-like) universal computers
  26. [2012-01-16] A quick look at Elance statistics
  27. [2012-01-13] First post: what I'm interested on these days