Day 221 – AI, Turkeys and David Hume
In my early days of college, I had a professor with an unusual mission: to prove that eating turkey for Thanksgiving was wrong. She owned a pet turkey and aimed to convince each class that our minds had been shaped by 200 years of cultural indoctrination. Though she largely failed in her efforts, her class […]
Day 216 – The Rule of Thumb
Yesterday, while fixing a door on a cabinet in my disorganized garage, I couldn’t find a measuring tape. Instead, I used the width of my thumb to estimate where to drill the holes for the new hinge—about three thumbs wide. This makeshift solution made me wonder about the phrase ‘rule of thumb.’ Though it wasn’t […]