Topics
15 topics, each a way into the writing.
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Machine intelligence
What intelligence is, what machines can and cannot do with it, and the tools to find out.
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Ad fraud
How fraud works in online advertising, who operates it, who profits, and what it costs.
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Advertising
The machinery of online advertising: programmatic buying, media trading, and the case for doing it differently.
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Research and development
How ideas, software and research organisations work, and how to make them work better.
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Data science
Evidence, causality and the honest use of data.
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Decentralization
The centralization of the internet and its economy, and attempts to undo it.
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Security research
Malvertising, botnets, and the research that exposes them.
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Ad blocking
Why people block ads, and what the advertising industry did about it.
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Privacy
Tracking, children online, and the rules meant to protect both.
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Sustainability
The carbon cost of online advertising, and a method to reduce it.
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Wisdom
Meaning, belief, and the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
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Practice
Notes, sayings and images on Tao and Buddhist practice, most of them from Man of Tao.
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Health
Cancer, diet, and the mind in sickness.
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Computing
Kernels, binary, complexity, and the 10x Computer Club's notes on making computers do more.
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Guides and lists
Tested how-tos and comprehensive lists.