imperialism

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Mokyr hearts Nobel Prizes

Dec 14, 2025 4 min read

I don’t like Joel Mokyr’s history of progress and have written about that before. I also have a longer analysis and explanation of my issues coming soon in The Hindu. On December 8 I got more occasion…

Google Docs: A New Hope

Jan 15, 2020 4 min read

Analysis bots Colonialism economic inequaity Google Docs grammar imperialism machine learning Punctuation semantics spellGrammar spellGrammarFingerprint styleguide syntax The New Yorker

I suspect the Google Docs grammar bot is the least useful bot there is. After hundreds of suggestions, I can think of only one instance in which it was right. Is its failure rate so high because it le…