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Every few months I’d meet Diego at the Palo Alto train station and we’d go for a walk, get some dinner, catch up. Diego was impossible to extract from …
Nick Barr
Jan 1CommentShare
Cards: The Power of Cards, Episode 0, ft. Matt Listen now (57 min) | Matt and I spend just about an hour waxing nostalgic on hyper-specific memories of the cards we bought, played, and traded. Featu…
Nick Barr
May 29, 2020CommentShare
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May 22, 2020CommentShare
A blooper from my workday. “Any idea that requires a 3D editor to model is likely not an idea” –nick barr
Nick Barr
May 19, 2020CommentShare
Chess and crisis w Joey FianchettoListen now (64 min) | Check out The Immortal Game: Nick Bishop vs Joey Fianchetto on YouTube to see our match.
Nick Barr
May 2, 2020Comment 2Share
A brilliancy is an original and imaginative move in chess. When a move is brilliant it is marked as (!!). A register of surprise.After I finish a match…
Nick Barr
Apr 17, 2020CommentShare
Life inside the hyperobjectIn this episode we behold COVID-19 as a hyperobject, drawing heavily from the book by Timothy Morton.
Nick Barr
Mar 22, 2020CommentShare
Bring in the quants: the cold calculus of college admissionsListen now (18 min) | Last time we picked on elite universities but left open whether their business model was significantly different from or worse th…
Nick Barr
Jan 21, 2020CommentShare
Are elite universities unsustainable or unstoppable? Listen now (24 min) | Summary I thought that elite universities like Harvard made their money from high tuitions. I was wrong! Harvard and other top sc…
Nick Barr
Jan 12, 2020CommentShare
#48 - Aphantasia w/ MattListen now (61 min) | My mind's eye is blind! Matt's mind's eye has astigmatism! We're still not sure what aphantasia is but we talk about it a bunch i…
Nick Barr
May 6, 2019CommentShare
#47 - Alien optimismsListen now (31 min) | Why doesn't the optimism of Steven Pinker and David Deutsch offer me any hope or relief? An initial investigation
Nick Barr
Apr 21, 2019CommentShare
#46 - How children failListen now (22 min) | How children fail // a memory from 6th grade // Simpson’s Paradox
Nick Barr
Mar 3, 2019CommentShare
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