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- Show HN: Computational Essay on Monte Carlo Method https://observablehq.com/@jajoosam/mathe-carlo/2 2 comments
- What Is a Computational Essay? (2017) https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2017/11/what-is-a-computational-essay/ 10 comments
- More States Opting to 'Robo-Grade' Student Essays by Computer https://www.npr.org/2018/06/30/624373367/more-states-opting-to-robo-grade-student-essays-by-computer 47 comments
- What Is a Computational Essay? http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2017/11/what-is-a-computational-essay/ 28 comments
- New Test for Computers: Grading Essays at College Level http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/science/new-test-for-computers-grading-essays-at-college-level.html 30 comments
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- What Is a Computational Essay? http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2017/11/what-is-a-computational-essay/ 3 comments design
- List of interesting, readable, computation-related essays (by Oleg Kiselyov) http://okmij.org/ftp/computation/ 21 comments programming
- A classic essay by Richard Stallman on trust and computing, a must-read for any technologist. Enjoy! https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html 114 comments philosophy
- “Why I am not going to buy a computer” - Wendell Berry essay from 1987. Does this type of thinking seem familiar? https://classes.matthewjbrown.net/teaching-files/philtech/berry-computer.pdf 148 comments ethereum
- “Why I am not going to buy a computer” - Wendell Berry essay from 1987. Does this type of thinking seem familiar? https://classes.matthewjbrown.net/teaching-files/philtech/berry-computer.pdf 31 comments bitcoin
- “Why I am not going to buy a computer” - Wendell Berry essay from 1987. Does this type of thinking seem familiar? https://classes.matthewjbrown.net/teaching-files/philtech/berry-computer.pdf 73 comments cryptocurrency
- Heidegger's notion of anxiety allows us to step outside our familiar involvements and reorient our relationship to our choices. Mostly ignored by cognitive science, this essay seeks to naturalize anxiety, explore how it squares with computational and functional theories of mind https://medium.com/science-and-philosophy/heideggerian-anxiety-as-a-means-of-exiting-the-system-1e4b06a71010 96 comments philosophy
- Thoughts? - Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer – Robert Epstein | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer 81 comments cogsci
- More States Opting To 'Robo-Grade' Student Essays By Computer https://www.npr.org/2018/06/30/624373367/more-states-opting-to-robo-grade-student-essays-by-computer 3 comments technology
- ‘Physical Reality’ and consciousness are peers computed by a more fundamental substrate. [Medium Essay] https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/816gdd/physical_reality_and_consciousness_are_peers/ 18 comments philosophy
- "What Colour Are Your Bits?" -- an essay about computer programming vs. structure, hierarchy, laws and intellectual propery http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 6 comments programming
- Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer – Robert Epstein | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer 101 comments cogsci
- Low Fat Computing - A politically incorrect essay by Jeff Fox 12/6/98 http://www.ultratechnology.com/lowfat.htm 7 comments programming
- ACM and the Professional Programmer - Former ACM President Vint Cerf has an essay exploring the reality of many computer science professionals not being members of the ACM http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2639990 39 comments programming
- Are these essays an accurate portrayal of academic computer science? http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/07/my-navrozov-moments.html 26 comments compsci
- The essay 'As We May Think' by Vannevar Bush predicted many kinds of technology invented after its publication, including hypertext, personal computers, the Internet, the World Wide Web, speech recognition, and online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/as_we_may_think 3 comments technology
- Harvard student expelled from Israel because she had an essay on her computer hard drive that was sympathetic to Palestinians. http://www.hlrecord.org/news/harvard-law-student-detained-deported-by-israel-1.1090599 710 comments worldnews
- Essays in computing science by C.A.R. Hoare: The original Quicksort, Monitors papers and more. No ACM subscription required, for now. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=series11430.63445&coll=guide&dl=&cfid=15151515&cftoken=6184618 2 comments programming
- What stands in the way of all-powerful AI isn’t a lack of smarts: it’s that computers can’t have needs, cravings or desires – Margaret Boden | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-robots-wont-take-over-because-they-couldnt-care-less 35 comments philosophy
- Lockdown: The Coming War On General-Purpose Computing --- "Can't you just make us a general-purpose computer that runs all the programs, except the ones that scare and anger us?" Fine essay on Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), implausibility of regulating Internet and computing effectively http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html 10 comments business
- For Chimpanzees like myself: I wrote an essay explaining all aspects of how self-driving cars work, including a dive into deep learning, computer vision and other technologies. https://medium.com/@mngrwl/everything-about-self-driving-cars-explained-for-non-engineers-f73997dcb60c 108 comments programming