"Halt and Catch Fire": A hidden gemIn this edition of Marginalia, the best series you've probably never heard of. Halt and Catch Fire (2014 – 2017) If further evidence were...
Marginalia"Halt and Catch Fire": A hidden gemIn this edition of Marginalia, the best series you've probably never heard of. Halt and Catch Fire (2014 – 2017) If further evidence were...
EssaysReading Fast, Writing SlowOn keeping a notebook, copying out passages from your reading, and why it's worth remembering certain things. Whenever I sit down to...
Marginalia"The Vegan": The Logic of the StomachIn this edition of Marginalia, Andrew Lipstein's novel about language and its failures, machine learning and markets, and how to be good....
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EssaysThe Mind-Wandering of OppenheimerWhy we should be promiscuous in our love of ideas. One of the ironies of Robert Oppenheimer’s life is that his legacy rests on a single...