1. Planet Hopf by University of Toronto [Video]. Discovered via Eric Weinstein on the Joe Rogan Podcast. A two-dimensional sphere (the surface of earth), where an extra circle is included on every point on the surface. Those extra circles create a 3-sphere (all the points that are one unit of distance away from the origin in four-dimensional space). The three-dimensional sphere is the analog of a two-dimensional sphere sitting in three-dimensional space.
  2. The Autonomy Ecosystem: From Self-Driving Cars to Beyond! by Frank Chen of Andreessen Horowitz. Set of videos on the autonomy ecosystem. “Discussions focus so much on the tangible artifact — the car itself — but so much more will change beyond the car… from public infrastructure, the automotive value chain, and energy, to finance (including insurance), the justice system, and yes, shopping too.”
  3. Whose Fault Is It When AI Makes Mistakes? by Cassie Kozyrkov for Towards Data Science. “The story I tell myself about how the inputs relate to the outputs is not only oversimplified, it’s also skewed […] by wishful thinking.” In other words: Sometimes your perfect algorithm thinks a radiator is a cat.
  4. Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI Are Joining Forces by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty for Harvard Business Review. “Most activities at the human-machine interface require people to do new and different things (such as train a chatbot) and to do things differently (use that chatbot to provide better customer service). So far, however, only a small number of the companies we’ve surveyed have begun to reimagine their business processes to optimize collaborative intelligence.”
  5. Lest Philosophen Statt Managementratgeber by Christopher Schwarz vor Wirtschaftswoche [German Link]. “Unruhige Zeiten sind gute Zeiten für die Philosophie. Wenn es politisch drunter und drüber geht, wenn auf den Common Sense kein Verlass mehr zu sein scheint, wenn auch die Wissenschaften nicht mehr recht weiter wissen, kurzum: wenn der Einzelne auf sich selbst zurückgeworfen wird, wächst der Wunsch nach Orientierung. Dann stellen sich Grundfragen nach dem gelingenden Leben, für die traditionell die Philosophie zuständig ist.”
  6. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems and You – A Helpful Guide by Philosophy Bro. “The theorems stand at this really weird crossroads of being important, celebrated, and complicated, and as a result they’re a part of logic that people tend to hone in on, even when they have no context whatsoever.”
  7. Why You Might Prefer More Pain by Tom Stafford. “It appears we don’t rationally calculate each moment of pleasure or pain using some kind of mental ledger. Instead, our memories filter how we feel about the things we’ve done and experienced, and our memories are defined more by the moments that seem most characteristic – the peaks and the finish – than by how we actually felt most of the time during the experience.”
  8. Book Review of The Daily Stoic by Maria Popova for Brain Pickings. “One of the analogies favored by the Stoics to describe their philosophy was that of a fertile field. Logic was the protective fence, physics was the field, and the crop that all this produced was ethics — or how to live.”
  9. Simple Rules for Complex Decisions [Paper] by Jongbin Jung, Connor Concannon, Ravi Shroff, Sharad Goel, Daniel G. Goldstein with a summary on Harvard Business Review. “From doctors diagnosing patients to judges setting bail, experts often base their decisions on experience and intuition rather than on statistical models. […] Here we present a new method, select-regress-and-round, for constructing simple rules that perform well for complex decisions.”
  10. 20 Top Lawyers were Beaten by Legal AI. Here Are Their Surprising Responses by Jonathan Marciano for Hackernoon. Twenty experienced US corporate lawyers were pitted against an AI by LawGeex. In analysing Non-Disclosure Agreements, the AI outperformed the lawyers not just in results (94% accuracy vs. 85% average) but also timing (26 seconds vs. 92 minutes average).