I first saw an e-ink Android phone on my coworker’s Boox. At the time I’d been listening to Old School with Shilo Brooks, which discusses great books and why you should read them. I wanted to read more. The phone in my pocket, however, was optimized for a different activity: little jolts of instant gratification arriving faster than I could decide whether I wanted them.
in Machine-learning on Machine-learning, Visualization, Family, Ai
When my wife and I were expecting our first daughter, we had a small collection of names we liked—and a surprisingly hard time finding more like them. The trouble was the word like. What was it, exactly, that we liked about a name? Its sound? Its spelling? Its age? Its associations?
