Travis White, Ph.D.

I teach courses on Critical Thinking & Persuasion — two sides of the same coin. Blogger, biker, grandpa. gtraviswhite.com

Travis White, Ph.D.
flipped into Books
- William Shakespeare
Top 10 Shakespearean books
The Guardian - Robert McCrum
The world’s libraries contain thousands of books on England’s national poet, in every language under the sun. Writers such as Milton, Dryden, Pope, Dr Johnson, Keats, Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Henry James...
5 hours ago
Travis White, Ph.D.
flipped into Books
- London, UK
The 10 best books that came out this year
Harper's BAZAAR - By Sarra Manning
What a year. What a no good, lowdown, terrible year it’s been. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t suffered or grieved for what life was like in the Before Times. But, as ever, reading has been my solace and...
6 hours ago
Travis White, Ph.D.
flipped into Should Robots Vote?
- Machine Learning
These new metrics help grade AI models’ trustworthiness
TNW - Ben Dickson
Whether it’s diagnosing patients or driving cars, we want to know whether we can trust a person before assigning them a sensitive task. In the human world, we have different ways to establish and measure...
7 hours ago
Travis White, Ph.D.
flipped into Happiness
- Procrastination
How to Beat Procrastination Like a Stoic Philosopher
Medium - Ryan Holiday
The Roman-era Stoic philosopher Seneca once joked that the one thing fools all have in common is that they are always getting ready to live but never …
10 hours ago
Travis White, Ph.D.
flipped into Should Robots Vote?
- Robotics
MIT programmed AI that can design its own robots
futurism.com - Dan Robitzski
As the latest bit of evidence that humanity has learned nothing from the “Terminator” franchise, we present RoboGrammer — an AI algorithm that can …
1 day ago
Travis White, Ph.D.
flipped into FinTech and Digital Currency
- Facebook
A new ‘Diem’ for Facebook’s Libra as it rebrands to save face
Input - J. Fergus
On Tuesday, the association formerly known as Libra rebranded as Diem. In an effort to assert the organization’s independence from Facebook as it …
19 hours ago