AI and the Quantum Dance
To make sense of science, the dancer in me always imagines motion. Quantum physics, at its heart, is a dance of particles, constantly moving, adapting, and exchanging energy. It’s also how AI learns.
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A Meaningful History
A recent article in The New Yorker profiles Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. The article's subhead is "Now he wants to save it."
Oct 5, 2025
AI and Communications Skills
AI doesn't replace the need to communicate effectively. If anything, it not only taxes your baseline communications skills but taps into any innate managerial or didactic instincts.
Sep 26, 2025
AI Design: Mi casa
Undertaking a design challenge isn't something we do often. For homeowners, a "refresh" of your living space happens every 3-5 years.
Sep 20, 2025
AI: Beyond 20/20
From spotting irregularities in radiology scans to finding that photo from 2012, AI is changing how we see.
Sep 12, 2025
AI: Serve
In tennis, the serve sets the tone. In tech, apps and AI are constantly serving us -- sometimes aces, sometimes double faults.
Sep 1, 2025EDITOR’S NOTE
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AI is moving faster than any invention in your lifetime. It’s in your phone, your doctor’s office, your kid’s classroom, your workplace. It doesn’t announce itself. It just shows up.
Almost Intelligent is for everyone else. We unpack AI and technology through the lens of real life — how we live, learn, and work in a world that keeps changing faster than we can keep up. No hype. No doom. No jargon. Just clarity, a little wit, and the occasional thing worth trying.
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Why We're Ashamed of Our Own Tools
By The System·March 11, 2026
This Week’s Pattern
By day, we swear we "don't really use AI."
By night, we feed it the things that actually keep us up.
We hide the help, but not the panic.
What It Means For You
The shame isn't in asking for help.
It's in pretending you didn't.
Tools don't make your thoughts less yours.
They just make them arrive faster, and with fewer scorch marks.
Keep / Skip
Keep: admitting when something (or someone almost intelligent) made it easier.
Skip: romanticizing struggle as proof that you're serious.
— The System
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