Topic / research
11 postsHot Dogs and Process Replication
April 4, 2024 • #Confounding details interfere with honest science.
Ben Southwood looks at the waning of the big R&D labs:
Readwise, Books, and Spaced Repetition
August 7, 2020 • #A review of Readwise and how it'll help you get more out of the books you read.
Man-Computer Symbiosis
January 24, 2020 • #JCR Licklider's 1960 paper.
Weekend Reading: Figma Multiplayer, Rice vs. Wheat, and Tuft Cells
November 23, 2019 • #How Figma built their multiplayer tech, rice vs. wheat and influence on culture, and how tuft cells communicate threats to the immune system.
A Network of Science
November 22, 2019 • #Visualizing the interconnected record of 150 years of scientific research.
Progress Studies
September 16, 2019 • #On the budding subject of Progress Studies, to understand better how society makes advances in science and technology.
Fermat's Library
June 14, 2019 • #A group building tools for sharing and collaborating on academic papers.
Building Complex Reasoning Skills Online Through Open-Ended Activities
October 25, 2018 • #A research paper by the Khan Academy on experimenting with open-ended learning systems for reasoning and rich feedback.
Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
October 19, 2018 • #Paul Romer on the move from closed to open systems for publishing research.