Ransom Stephens's Blog, page 4
September 27, 2017
Who cares that we no longer have privacy?
Your inalienable right to privacy has been alienated; does losing this right threaten civilization?
August 23, 2017
Self-driving cars will save money and lives as they destroy jobs
Self-driving cars will save us money, time, and prevent death and injuries, but at what cost?
October 14, 2016
The speed of thought
The three timescales of thought dictate the time it takes to hit the brakes or to run from a tiger, but it takes longer to have an idea and much longer to learn how to do things quickly.
August 9, 2016
Improve your answer resolution and unleash innovation
Answer resolution combines the intense focus needed to find nuance in the very similar with the intense defocus needed to find relationships among the very dissimilar.
July 12, 2016
Happy anniversary, EDN: you���re old
Report from 2076: Things have changed in 60 years.
July 11, 2016
Happy anniversary, EDN: you’re old
Report from 2076: Things have changed in 60 years.
July 1, 2016
Transmitter FFE makes the channel do the work
Transmitter FFE tricks the channel into doing its own equalizing.
May 3, 2016
Reduce your prejudice to innovation
The biggest obstacle to innovation is our own internal prejudice systems and the "not invented here" mentality. Fortunately, we can get around them.
April 1, 2016
You can't think out of a box built of TLAs
Success in the 21st century is built on innovation but every industry builds TLA walls that stifle creativity.
March 17, 2016
A bluffers guide to evaluating scientific results, Part 3: Why Some Results are Irreproducible
Irreproducible results have come under attack but sometimes that's just how nature rolls.
