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Ask a silly question, get a silly answer. — Tom Lehrer, “New Math”

I ask too many questions. A case in point is the time I lost out on a place I wanted to rent when I asked my potential future landlord one question too many (“Does the pond have mosquitos in the summ...


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A few weeks ago I was minding my own business, peacefully reading a well-written and informative article about artificial intelligence, when I was ambushed by a passage in the article that aroused my pique....


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I’m a great believer in low-tech math. I don’t like to rely on things a computer tells me; what if there’s a bug in the code? I prefer trusting things that I can check for myself. At the same time, I’m keenly aware of the limits of my imagination even when it’s aided by paper and pencil. Sometimes I need a computer to show me things I can imagine myself imagining but...


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