Archive - Milesian Olives

An Aristotle for every student

The promise of artificial intelligence in education

Aug 4, 2023 •

August 2022

Why doesn’t anyone go for the balls in street fights?

I derive a lot of pleasure from watching street fights (on YouTube, obviously, not live fights in the streets). So I’ve watched a lot of them. I also…

Aug 1, 2022 •

June 2022

Looking for statistical significance in rent contracts

My job requires me to look at a bunch of rent contracts. The other day I was analyzing a list of them that looked something like this (I recreated the…

Jun 7, 2022 •

January 2022

A mind split in two – or Strange Case of Dr Left and Mr Right

One of the things I ask myself when deciding what to write about for this newsletter is “What are the things I know that I wish more people knew…

Jan 30, 2022 •

Using Omicron to preach Bayes

For New Year’s Eve, I traveled with some friends to the beach. On the 30th, I started feeling a sore throat and a bit of fever. I ended up spending…

Jan 8, 2022 •

November 2021

The metaverse beyond skeuomorphism

When I began writing this essay, few people outside of tech and VC circles were talking about the metaverse. I figured I would explain what it was, who…

Nov 14, 2021 •

October 2021

The missing economist at this year’s Nobel Prize

On a flight in 1987, Alan Krueger sat next to a woman called Ginna Ashenfelter. Krueger was just finishing his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard…

Oct 12, 2021 •

The selfish employee

If you know something about evolution, but not enough, you may think it has something to do with “the survival of the species.” I hate to break it to…

Oct 10, 2021 •

September 2021

Stop trying to impress airport personnel

Whenever I would travel as a kid, I had this obsession with making my suitcase as light as possible. I thought of it as an act of manliness: taking too…

Sep 27, 2021 •

Milesian Olives

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Sep 20, 2021 •

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