1. Humanity + AI: Better Together by Frank Chen for Andressen Horowitz. I always particularly enjoy Chen’s “State of the ecosystem” articles. Somehow they provide value for both laymen and experts.
  2. What Impossible Meant to Feynman by Paul J. Steinhardt for Nautilus. An interesting look at Feynman’s mindset by one of his pupils. 
  3. Be an Elegant Simplifier by Kate Clayton for Behavioral Scientist. Simple is hard. How a designer goes about creating design for complex topics. 
  4. Meaningful by Scott Alexander at Slate Star Codex. “AI can never understand X” – but what is X, and do we fool ourselves in thinking we perform better?
  5. Aliens Need Not Wait To Be Active by Robin Hanson at Overcoming Bias. Hanson disputes the argument that the Fermi Paradox might be explained by aliens waiting for higher computational efficiency.
  6. 8 Intelligences: Are You a Jack of All Trades or a Master of One? by Howard Gardner for BigThink. I’ve found it difficult to split the areas for AI from a usefulness perspective, current categories seem to fall short. So why not split intelligence in terms of human intelligence? 
  7. It’s Time to Switch to a Four-Day Working Week, Say These Two Davos Experts by Ross Chainey for The World Economic Forum. Fewer working hours shows positive impact on focus, productivity, quality of outcome, creativity, and a higher loyalty to the company.
  8. Add Data to Excel Directly From a Photo on Microsoft. Microsoft has a new smartphone feature that lets you import a photo of a printed table directly into Excel. 
  9. Inside the High-Stakes Race to Make Quantum Computers Work by Katia Moskvitch for Wired Magazine. Quantum advantage, whereby a quantum computer outperforms normal computers on at least one truly useful task, is still in far distance. 
  10. TensorFlow is dead, long live TensorFlow! by Cassie Kozyrkov. All the features, none of the hassle: Keras will be the high level API for TensorFlow