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Oct 12, 2022

General purpose robots must not be used to destroy us

Boston Dynamics (BDI), the maker of the Spot industrial robotic dog, recently penned a letter to the robotics community vowing not to use their robots for war and urged the broader robotics community to join them in their refusal to weaponize their technology. The fear that BDI will weaponize their…

Defense

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General purpose robots must not be used to destroy us
General purpose robots must not be used to destroy us
Defense

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May 12, 2020

The Last 2%

The difference between great products and perfect ones — Lately, I’ve been enamored with this idea of the last 2%. It’s very simple. Suppose we say that if a given product is designed to address a certain problem, a consumer will not feel fully satisfied until the task is 100% complete. The idea here is that the last 2%…

Product Design

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The Last 2%
The Last 2%
Product Design

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Sep 30, 2019

The Joy of Instant Film

Last week, Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro went on sale in stores around the world. Its signature selling point: a distinctive triple-lens camera system and an impressive software suite to accompany it. New advancements in computational photography leverage machine learning to perform semantic rendering of compositional elements, algorithmically recombine rapid photo…

Photography

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The Joy of Instant Film
The Joy of Instant Film
Photography

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May 18, 2019

Reflections on my College Years

Today, I graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. — Today, I graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Like most people, I was given lots of advice about how to make the best of these years. Let’s see if I made the grade. RPI was never a place I wanted to go to so much as a place that I ended…

College

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Reflections on my College Years
Reflections on my College Years
College

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Feb 16, 2018

Disrupting tragedy

Technological solutions for ending or mitigating school shootings — Today, again, America grieves. On Thursday, February 15, seventeen high school students and faculty members lost their lives in a horrific massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, and at least a dozen more have been hospitalized for their injuries. In the wake of what is now the…

Gun Violence

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Disrupting tragedy
Disrupting tragedy
Gun Violence

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Feb 1, 2018

To the Next Twenty: A Declaration

On this day one score ago, I awakened from the abyss and was thrust headlong into this strange world. Long I have wandered and wondered, gathered knowledge and searched for answers. Who am I, and what am I doing here, and where am I going, and for what reason? I…

Coming Of Age

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To the Next Twenty: A Declaration
To the Next Twenty: A Declaration
Coming Of Age

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Sep 20, 2017

Calling all mathematicians: my experience doing math at a hackathon

“My brain is open!” These are the famous words that Paul Erdős spoke to the world’s foremost mathematicians as he surprised them at their doorsteps. Erdős, one of the world’s most prolific mathematicians, published over 1,500 papers in his lifetime with more than 500 collaborators. …

Hackathons

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Calling all mathematicians: my experience doing math at a hackathon
Calling all mathematicians: my experience doing math at a hackathon
Hackathons

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Adam Circle

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I like solving problems that are both interesting and hard. www.adamcircle.com

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