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      <title>Why I went looking for a major that didn't exist</title>
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      <description>The silos between the natural sciences are an administrative fact, not a fact about the world. On arguing with department chairs, recording evoked potentials, and why the ceiling on what one brain can hold pushed me toward computation.</description>
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      <description>Surface fluency carries almost no information about the mechanism underneath. That was true of a string-matching program in 1966 and it's true of everything shipping today, except now we've lost the ability to measure the gap.</description>
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      <description>The origins of Kelly Enterprises, and what applied consulting taught me about where the interesting problems actually live.</description>
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