Andrew Emmott

The Buzz: A computer can’t possibly account for all the variable in driving a car! The Anti-buzz: Driving is only arithmetic. Early in the year while we are still looking forward, I’d like to talk about another emerging technology – automated cars, (read up if you are unfamiliar with this phenomenon). I’m not going to [...]

I recently listened to a talk about machine learning, it began with the broad argument that our attempts to create sustainable environments had failed. By the speaker’s own admission, “sustainable” was a buzzword that he was almost embarrassed to use (a nice parallel to my own focus here at “Antibuzz”). Sustainable is a classic buzzword [...]

The AntiBuzz: Anti-Internetism — About ten years ago I was studying film in college and we were lectured on how ideology can be encoded into art. “Ideology” is itself a tricky thing to define and trying to do so here could lead us too far astray, but one salient point was that ideologies seek to [...]

The Buzz: Everybody with secrets is making the next super robot death bomb cannon. I took a somewhat unconventional take on privacy issues a few weeks ago, but suffice it to say again, privacy is a big deal. You are more well acquainted with the complexities of privacy issues than most, as you are obligated [...]

Any number. Any number at all. The Anti-Buzz: You can’t. Time to switch gears and get super nerdy again. I wrote earlier this year about how probability is counter-intuitive to most people, and then went on, (perhaps too long), about a famous problem. Here’s something a little more down to earth. Like the peanut butter [...]