Ideas · mattischrome

Valleys

In my last post, I wrote about hills. I tried to use them as a metaphor to explain nagging sense of incompletion when you single out one …

I’m a big fan of books. The way they transport you away to other places and so on. As repositories of knowledge and adventure they …

A few months ago I wrote about an idea for a novel that I’d abandoned. I mentioned in that post that I’d abandoned it because …

I often ponder whether the joys of waking up early are greater than those of staying up late. Empirical evidence seems to bear this out: all …

There is so much good writing out there. All you have to do is fire up the guardian website, or download the medium app to your smartphone, …

This is a longer form post about artificial intelligence inspired by reading a little bit of “The Pale King” by David Foster …

I recently spruced up a post I wrote four years ago about Biosphere’s wonderful album Substrata. I added the following footnote about the …

In 2005, towards the end of the second year of my PhD I presented a poster at a conference in Dresden, Germany. My eccentric colleagues and …

Sometimes, when I am feeling a bit down, I like to write down some of my ambitions. As you can see from this list they are mostly pretty …

I pay to have this blog up and running. That is, I pay for the space where it is stored and I pay for the name. I have to look after all the …

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