Morgan’s Blog

  • Super-sizing your work is screwed up

    Perhaps the most stark contrast between Europe and the US is the issue of quality vs quantity. I recently returned from a 2 week sojurn in Europe, and was shocked the first time I went into a US grocery store. Shocked at the quantity of it all, and yet, amongst all that quantity, the difficulty […]

  • Would computers really want to do math proofs?

    Roger Penrose wrote a book titled “The Emporor’s New Mind.” The book roused quite a bit of controversy, because he claimed that he had proof that computers can’t think in the same way that humans do. To illustrate, he used the complex subject of mathematical proof making. Using various fancy arguments tied to Gödel’s incompleteness […]

  • Why I hate writing grants

    No, it’s not the writing part that bugs me.  I actually like that part.  Being able to put together well-constructed plans and rationales is fun.  Describing a project-to-be is fun. But… there’s another part about it that I really hate.  It’s that you can’t be authentic. I often use the analogy between writing a grant […]