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This post is part of my "research" series. Introduction Sometimes the need is desperate. You have children to raise, cancer to treat, something important broke and you're going down with it. These kind of situations rarely afford you the luxury of time. You have to do the best you can,...
The US patent system is broadly considered to be broken, and patent-trolls make a healthy profit abusing it. Agressively pursuing and enforcing software patents does not strike me as a sufficient or desirable means to delaying AI timelines, but I can imagine it as tool in a sliding scale of...
This post is part of my "research" series. These are my notes from a 2022-04-22 conversation (in Spanish) with Adriana Balzarini Ingeniera Agrónoma. I met Adriana as part of the Board of Directors of the Partido de la Costa Science Club. The conversation wasn't recorded, so I've had to reconstruct...
This post is part of my "research" series. Blue. How to Read Books and Write Essays. Overly Sarcastic Productions, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3v8-j1znXM. Why This got recommended at the end of Red's video on how to do research and can be considered part of the same series. In one paragraph Academic reading...
This post is part of my "research" series. Red. How to Do Research. Overly Sarcastic Productions, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sigJwoeU6OI. Why Overly Sarcastic Productions are two friends making short (around 14 minutes) video presentations about history, mythology, and literature. I stumbled upon this video by scrolling through their back-catalog, and the title...
This is part of my "research" series. Wentworth, John S. How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor. LessWrong (blog), August 28, 2021. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Psr9tnQFuEXiuqGcR/how-to-write-quickly-while-maintaining-epistemic-rigor. Accessed 2022-04-08. Why "How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor" sounds like a gift-wrapped solution to my research question. I didn't know the author, but...
This post is part of my "research" series. Branwen, Gwern. Internet Search Tips, 11 December 2018. https://www.gwern.net/Search. Accessed: 2022-04-05. Why If memory serves, I learned of Gwern through LessWrong. He was mentioned as a guy who did really careful self-experiments with different drugs. His blog seemed consistently well-researched and earnest...